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Passage to New Zealand – Day 1

We’ve had an encouraging start to this passage. The winds, as predicted, did shift around enough for us to not only gain the rhumb line but to also let out the sails for a more comfortable ride. Overnight the swell, which always lags the wind, shifted too so we stopped crashing into the waves so […]

At sea

At 7am this morning we raised our anchor and were off. Inside the Tongatapu the winds were light so we gave the genset a final test to get us going. At 7:30 the systems were all switched off so I could run the morning’s Penguin net. Helen wasn’t overly pleased to be left helming in […]

Two Years On (by Helen) – Revised

Last year I wrote a retrospective on our first year out cruising. Once again I have been persuaded to write another one on our second year out. Two years on and what a second year. How we’ve grown as sailors and explorers. Our first year was about learning the boat, gaining further sailing experience, adjusting […]

Ready to go

No trip to town today. Ben and I used the morning to clean up the starboard hull and both props. After doing this I decided to set the first reef into the mainsail as that is what we’re likely to need tomorrow. Bad news. The lower part of the sail got caught in the reefing […]

Last night out

In the morning Helen and Ben took the water taxi into Nuku’alofa while I went ashore here to Big Mama’s for some internet and weather discussions. There weren’t too many people in Big Mama’s that morning so I was able to sort some paperwork out and get up to date with our tracks. One thing […]