Category Archives: New Zealand

Overall, a grand day

Posted on March 5, 2012 by steve

Shortly after our successful sea (river) trial David and Marian from Kilkea showed up for a brief visit. We decided to eat lunch at Reva’s overlooking the river. Having overfed ourselves to only option was to walk it all off … Continue reading →

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Sea (River) Trial a Success

Posted on March 4, 2012 by steve

All is good. All bar one of my perceived issues I managed to resolve before the techs arrived. The crazy A/C control went sane when Bertrand was watching. We went down the river for 45 mins and then returned trying … Continue reading →

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Balancing Act

Posted on March 4, 2012 by steve

As the bad weather came through we did manage a fair bit of down time on Saturday. However, we did spend much of the morning being fairly busy. We moved the rest of our disconnected and spare batteries from the … Continue reading →

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Back in the water

Posted on March 3, 2012 by steve

The last morning in the yard continued to be a busy one. I attached four more batteries onto the house bank bringing it up to eight our of usual twelve. Three of the newly attached batteries were sitting on top … Continue reading →

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We’re in the water

Posted on March 2, 2012 by steve

Engines started first time. Currently testing before we depart.

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