Once we left Bora Bora, more than 1,000 nautical miles of open ocean lay ahead of us. The passage to American Samoa would become our longest crossing since arriving on this side of the Pacific - and likely remain so until we’ll set sail across the Indian Ocean. Our original plan had been to head for Niue, but unfavorable winds forced us to reconsider. Instead, we decided to turn further north toward American Samoa, a tiny U.S. territory in the heart of the South Pacific. Unfo

On the morning of April 29, the silhouette of Tahiti appeared on the horizon. Tahiti is the largest island in French Polynesia, and its capital, Papeete, with around 26,000 residents, is by far the largest city within a radius of thousands of miles. That makes it a central hub for sailors crossing the Pacific – and for us as well, there was plenty to take care of here. Right after our arrival, Song went on the hard. One of the through-hulls had started leaking and needed to b

We finished the last post moments before we went diving on the world famous dive site, The Wall of Sharks— and it absolutely loved up to the name. The GoPro footage in our video does not do it justice, but it can give you a slight idea of just how many sharks there were. At some points it felt like we had to push them out of our way while we were drifting with the current. The whitetip reef sharks were clinging to the bottom of the pass at about 30 meters, and everywhere over