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0800 Position 16-29S 151-46W. At anchor off of the Bora Bora Yacht Club

After breakfast yesterday a power boat showed up astern of us with a couple of Tahitians aboard offering tours of their pearl farm in on Tahaa. Piers and Doc went with them, and came back an hour later pleased with their experience and toting a kilo of pearl oyster muscle meat. This was just the cleaned muscle that holds the shell closed, not the mess you find inside a fresh oyster. They were told that the meat makes great poisson cru, the Tahitian version of ceviche.

We haven't had much wind since Piers and Doc arrived, and it was light again yesterday, so we ended up powering all the way to Bora Bora with the awning up. It was a bit rolly without any sails up, but a couple of hours later we were anchored off of the Bora Bora Yacht Club. We were too far offshore to pick up the club's WIFI signal, so we headed ashore to have a beer at the bar and check email.

Piers and Doc made some great oyster meat poisson cru for pupus at cocktail hour and we enjoyed another movie night after dinner aboard.

Renee has been feeling lousy since we left Tahiti. We are not sure if it is flu, chicken gunya, zika, or something else. She appears to be on the mend, but we don't want to take any chances since we are about to leave civilization for a couple of weeks as we head west. She and Rob are going to try to find a doctor in Vaitape this morning to make sure it is OK for her to go.

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