Category Archives: South Pacific

A little scarey?

Posted on December 3, 2010 by steve

We left early this morning so I skipped my almost normal time to blog. So here’s the last two days activities. Not a great deal happened in the morning. I managed to make my final call to the Lagoon tech … Continue reading →

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All charged up

Posted on December 1, 2010 by steve

Yesterday went well. I was able to contact the tech as planned. We reviewed the preparatory work I had done and what I needed to pay attention to when exchanging the units. The switch over went reasonably well with the … Continue reading →

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Back to Projects

Posted on November 30, 2010 by steve

Around 8am I took the dinghy ashore to visit Catermarine to pick up our long awaited for charger. I learned that a second package had also arrived which turned out to be two replacement rudder pins provided free of charge … Continue reading →

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Whangarei – first visit

Posted on November 29, 2010 by steve

We had a good Sunday evening as we had curry with company. This time it was Steve from Curious along with his climbing companion, Terrier (sic). They had planned a helicopter drop off in the South Island but had to … Continue reading →

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Kerikeri (Day of Pies)

Posted on November 27, 2010 by steve

Saturday brought our first day trip in the car. Using the free New Zealand road maps on my old Garmin 276C we keyed in a route to Kerikeri. We detoured early on to visit a hardware store where I hoped … Continue reading →

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