Hi, real quick, off the top of my
head, and just guesstimating how fast you'll go in a 40'
Beneteau:
1. Acapulco -> Puerto Ayora,
Galapagos, ~10 days sail in between
2. Tuatmotus -> Papeete (Tahiti), ~5 days
3. Papeete ->
Bora Bora, ~3 days
4.
Bora Bora -> Rarotonga (Cook Islands), ~5 days
But many people are more cautious about
weather on this leg (for some reason it's pretty common to hit a gale on the way West from Bora Bora, and for
West coast sailors this is usually their first), so this may be a bad one for flights since you may end up waiting a week or two for good
weather, if you settle into that kind of style.
I feel that for options 2 and 3 you don't really have to pay attention to the weather, and would probably be the easiest to keep a 'schedule' with. Option 1 is a little more variable with weather, there's a weather pattern called a Tehuantepeccer that a real conservative person would not leave Acapulco if one had developed (on a direct
route to
Galapagos you'd be pretty far away from the strongest
parts, so I'm not sure if it would be truly dangerous or just uncomfortable)