Just returned from the 2008 edition of the Captains Cruise. We sailed French Polynesia for ten glorious days. The weather was incredible and the water was warmer than the air. We couldnt have timed it better as it poured buckets when we flew out of Papeete.

We had wind to sail on all four crossings and [...]

It was about eleven months ago, on the deck of a fine catamaran in Puerto Andratx, on the island of Mallorca, that the die was cast. Our intrepid sailing group would go the other way around the world to experience the South Pacific. We settled on French Polynesia because SunSail has a base there and [...]