Lonely Planet™ · Thorn Tree Forum · 2020

Island hopping by sailboat

Country forums / Pacific Islands & Papua New Guinea / Tahiti & French Polynesia

My girlfriend and I are going to South East Asia in spring 2012 and we would love to see different islands in the Pacific, preferably French Polynesia. Anyone know sailboats that need crew or take people for little money?

Erik

You do realize French Polynesia is far from SE Asia? I don't know much about sailing but all the yacht's I met (or the people on them) were going in the opposite direction and heading for SE Asia from Polynesia. The trade winds blow that way, which I suspect has something to do with it.

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