Diary for Liward


Where in the Fakarava are we??? – Liward back to Sailing! April-May 2015

2015-04-10 to 2015-05-13

We flew back to Tahiti on April 9 after 6 fun months in Florida. We found Liward looking really good in Marina Taina. Heifara took excellent care of her. We had a few projects to complete. One was the engine that would not keep its prime. After a couple of tries, Steve figured it out and had the Bosch delivery pump on the side of the injection pump rebuilt. While he waited! Everyone is so helpful and nice here. Then we had to fix the wind generator which stopped working. We just happened to have the spare but of course the new model did not fit exactly! I am pretty convinced that Steve can fix most anything! Then we had to do some varnish work. The rainy season in Tahiti was pretty bad this year so the varnish did not get done like we hoped. So we spent 2 weeks with Heifara’s help and now Liward looks pretty beautiful! It has been over 20 years since we have varnished but we did pretty well. So we finally were ready to leave the dock and we sailed to Moorea for a week. Then we sailed 2 nights, eastward, to Fakarava! That’s where we are sitting right now and I am trying to update the website which is not easy because there is no internet! So here’s some pictures from our first 6 weeks back on Liward!