Society Islands Charter Itinerary

Society Islands Itinerary

Society Islands Yacht Charter
Cook named them for the Royal Society, and they remain the heart of French Polynesia: high volcanic islands inside coral reefs, each with a lagoon and a mountain, close enough to sail between comfortably in a morning.





The week works the leeward group. Moorea and Bora Bora carry the reputation; Taha’a and Huahine carry the interest ’ vanilla farms, pearl lagoons, and an island so little developed that its sacred sites sit unfenced beside the road.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Society Islands; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Moorea

Anchor in Cook’s Bay or Opunohu, where the water is deep and the peaks rise almost vertically from the shore. Blacktip sharks and stingrays gather on the sand flats inside the reef, in a metre of water, and swimming among them is entirely unremarkable to everyone but you. Coral gardens on the outer reef.
Day 2

Moorea

A second day: a four-wheel-drive tour up into the volcanic crater and the pineapple fields, or the trek to Three Coconuts Pass. Afternoon on the motus, on water toys or in a hammock. Sail in the evening for an overnight passage west ’ the trade wind on the quarter, the mountains dropping astern.
Day 3

Taha’a

Wake inside Taha’a’s lagoon. The island grows vanilla ’ pollinated by hand, every flower, because the bee that does it does not live here. Visit a farm, then a pearl farm where you can bring up your own oyster. The coral garden between the motus is a drift snorkel with the current doing the work. Anchor facing Bora Bora as the sun goes.
Day 4

Bora Bora

Cross the channel to Bora Bora and through the pass. Snorkel the coral gardens, swim with manta rays on the eastern reef, and take a jeep up to the wartime gun emplacements left by the Americans, who built the airstrip and never fired a shot. Dinner ashore, with Otemanu turning purple behind the resort lights.
Day 5

Bora Bora

Spend the day on the lagoon rather than the island. The motus on the eastern reef have beaches that see nobody; the water between them shelves from white to jade to deep blue in the space of a few metres. The small archaeology museum is worth an hour. A cocktail on deck, and the light does the rest.
Day 6

Huahine

Huahine is what the Societies looked like before anyone arrived ’ two islands joined by a bridge, rainforest to the shoreline, and almost no development. Anchor in Bourayne Bay. Ashore, the marae at Maeva form the largest concentration of pre-European temples in Polynesia, and sacred blue-eyed eels live in the village stream.
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Day 7

Return to Tahiti

Sail east for Tahiti, with a last morning’s snorkel on the way if the wind allows. Papeete arrives in the afternoon: traffic, a cathedral, roulottes serving dinner from vans by the harbour. French Polynesia does not do farewells well, because nobody has ever wanted to make one.

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