For Services and Resources in French Polynesia
The Tahiti Cruisers Guide is brought to you by Julien Desmont from Xperimental and Chuck Houlihan from Jacaranda. Starting as an idea based on the very successful Panama City Cruisers guide, it has evolved into 200+ pages of information on vendors and services throughout French Polynesia. In January 2018, we added GPS coordinates and links to Google Maps to assist in locating businesses.
Downloading the guide and GPS map coordinates will facilitate using the guide offline. The coordinates will work for either Maps.me (best for Papeete) or Google Maps.
Especially thankful to John (SV Mary Ann II) and Steve (SV Ocean Star) for their huge effort in supplying a vast amount of information for the guide.
The guide is a community effort. Updates and new additions are greatly appreciated. If you find the guide useful or find something that needs updating please drop us a note at tahiticruisersguide (AT) gmail.com
Last update: 16 Apr 2024
Dinghy New / Repair
Esteban Galvez
2023-04-04 00:12:30 UTC
Island: Raiatea
GPS Coordinates (Latitude/Longitude in decimal degrees):
Latitude: -16.7761
Longitude: -151.419882
view in google mapsContact: 87 32 67 29
estebanggalvez@gmail.com
SV Phoenix
Raiatea
Located near 3 waterfall bay
We put tractor air chambers inside, we patch any holes it may have, and eventually we paint them with special paint.
7-2021 SV Domini Esteban is fantastic. He managed to save our dinghy which, after going over a metal spike at night, had a massive hole ripped out of two of the three chambers. It really seemed beyond repair, but with a few tractor tyre inner tubes he managed to somehow make it as good as new. He can also repair and service outboards.