We ran aground! Sailing Huahine to Tonga!

Our sails from Huahine, via Tahaa and Aitutaki, tho the Hapa’i island group in Tonga. We changed our passage plan en route, to avoid some bad weather and re-routed to Aututaki instead of Niue. We then picked up even more trouble, running aground on a reef just outside Arutanga harbour in Aututaki. The boat was nearly holed and thanks to some Kiwi sailors and the local dive operation, Bubbles, we managed to escape, still afloat. From Aututaki to Tonga was some unwelcome weather and again we rerouted from Nuku’alofa, to Lifuka island. They call it the dangerous middle of the Pacific and we now know why!