After chartering many, many times in the BVI, our group is headed to FP to charter a Moorings 5000. There just isn't the same info available for chartering the Society Islands as the BVI. If anyone has chartered in FP, specifically the Society Islands, I would be very interested in Must See anchorages/moorings or Not to bother anchorages/moorings. We are trying to put together some sort of itinerary and hope to eat ashore every evening.
Thanks for any guidance/opinions! Doug
We are still here in FP and I wanted to point out something about the dining... we eat most of our meals on the boat and would be challenged to find onshore dining options at many stops. Not that they don't exist, but language, signage and lacking info for cruisers contribute.
Additionally, most of the high-end restaurants are on the motus in the various upscale resorts and those are not easy to access for yachts (to be fair we have not tried).
We ate at MaiTai yesterday, considered by some the only "true restaurant" on the island of Tahaa, an island larger than Moorea. At Maupiti we couldn't even find a place to park the dinghy...
Depending on how important the dining is, having someone on board with extensive local knowledge could be very helpful.
When planning the itinerary, consider that this is a much larger cruising ground with open ocean passages (It took us 7.5 hours motorsailing 30 degrees off the wind with both engines to get back to Bora Bora from Maupiti. The 5000 might do better, haven't sailed one.
The suggested itineraries are on the ambitious side.
