Category Archives: New Zealand

Russell

Posted on December 4, 2010 by steve

We’ve escaped Opua. It’s a hard place to leave as there’s always a reason to stay an extra day. But that thinking gets you stuck and sooner or later you have move on or miss out. Before leaving we did … Continue reading →

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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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