S/V Code Blue

s/v Code Blue – Pictures of Steve and Judy May 24, 2014

Steve and Judy Dauzenroth

Took these today 5-24-14 on the boat. Beard for Steve is now about 2 months old. Trying for the nautical look, but Judy is concerned I look older now and a different guy.

Steve and Judy
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Nuku Hiva

Steve

Judy

s/v Code Blue – Nuku Hiva May 24, 2014

Bay Of Virgins

Code Blue Followers, 5-24-14

Thought I’d send a bunch of pictures that I wasn’t able to send before.

Locals from the Bay of Virgins,

SwimHike is the hike about 1 hour up some, at Bay of Virgins.

When it “Rains” it can pour some.

Baggett is the oven that racks go into with dough and out comes baked Baggett’s. The main staple of bread here for about 60 cents to a dollar depending on the island you are on. This one was in Resolution Bay at a little store.

Overview picture of Bay of Virgins

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s/v Code Blue – Slight Update – We are in Hana Moe Noa, Tahuata Island May 17, 2014

We are are in Hana Moe Noa, near Vaitahu on island of Tahuata, not far from Atuona. We are at S 09* 54.4′, W 139* 00.3′, Not too far from Hiva Oa as we can see the island nearby. Steep white sand beach, aqua marine water due to the 30′ deep bay, tropical fish around, 13 cruisers in here.

I spent yesterday cleaning our bottom with a friends gasoline Hooka system. There is a very nice coral reef right under our boat that I checked out. Judy tended the motor in the dinghy with ear muffs and a book. I’m not impressed with our Blue Water Marine paint, ablative, from New Jersey. We just painted in December and already major growth. This is the second time, I cleaned the bottom good, just before we left PV was the first. Small barnacles every inch or so on a great major of the hull and rudder. Speed Prop on the prop is mostly gone now, due to the pitch change I made. Other boaters using Mexican ablative, have almost nothing.

Maybe a potluck on the beach tonight. But it rained last night some.

I guess I’m not communicating with the group that well. I thought we were headed to Resolution Bay. This is a couple of miles further north on the same island.

Steve and Judy
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sv Code Blue – We’re Anchored in a Bay Called Hana Tefau, On Island of Tahuata May 16, 2014

Code Blue Followers, 5-16-14 7:39am local time.

Just thought I’d send an update on s/v Code Blue’s location. We’re anchored just off Tahuata Island. Another bay called Hapatoni Bay is close by and yesterday 5-17-14 we took the dinghy over to a small community that has a ramp, church, school and an artisana wood carvers shed. They had a potluck going on and many of the carvings from workers on display for sale. Judy bought a decorative Marquesan paddle about 24 inches long carved by a local called Amedee with accents on the first two e’s, so in Sailmail Ame’de’e, as I don’t know how to do accent letters. Judy has another Maori paddle at home from New Zealand. We’re trying to decide where to mount it, for now it’s resting location is in the bunk next to Judy. Earlier in the morning it was pretty windy. We set our dinghy in the water behind the boat to get ready to leave. While talking on the radio about whether to go to shore or not in the high winds of 10 to 25 knots with s/v Roundabout and Sequoia, Ted mentioned our dinghy had flipped over, which had our new electric motor portion on it. It’s waterproof to IP67 standards, but we don’t like to test it all that much. We tried flipping it back over near the stern but ended up walking to our beam and using a halyard to lift it up and righting it. Two oars spilled out and got rescued too. We decided to wait another hour and see if the wind would continue to drop, which it did.

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