Mirabilis

Mirabilis is a 43ft steel Finot sloop owned by Mike and Danica Stent. Mirabilis joined the family in 2010. We spent ten years living aboard with the Marlborough Sounds as our main playground. We've done a few bigger trips to Rakiura, Tonga, Wallis & Futuna, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. This season we are back on the water again and sailing with our two boys (Arlo and Coen) around the Fiji islands. Home port is Mana, NZ. Mirabilis is named after the nudibranch Jason mirabilis. Nudibranchs are rad.

Posted: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 - 09:09

We spent a cool couple of days back around Havannah harbour. We went to an Independence day celebration with local live music, snorkeled a ww2 plane wreck that non of the cruisers seem to know about

Posted: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 - 20:24

Moved back to Port Havannah for a non rolly nights sleep. As nice as it was in the other anchorage with the fantastic snorkelling, gorgeous beaches and water the same colour as the blue in Mobil

Posted: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 - 21:58

We are having a lazy afternoon here in Undine Bay and Arlo is happily playing on the saloon floor so I thought I’d take some time out to reflect on our journey so far. We have now been here for a

Posted: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 - 20:25

well that was fun! water over the bow on anchor in 29.3knts of wind with a 2.4 mile fetch! We thought about moving but couldnt as the windless would not work at all. Turns out all the bad weather we

Posted: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 - 16:30

Arrived in Port Havannah. Spent a lovely lazy afternoon swimming and hanging on the beach yesterday with new friends. We will stay around here until the weekend at least when we will catch up with

Posted: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 - 14:06

Diving!!! Mike found this magic anchorage on a stunning bit of coastline with a reef 300m offshore rising up to 1m depth. We revved up the compressor, filled the tanks and took turns diving while the

Posted: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 - 18:06

Finally dragged ourselves away from Vila where we were spoiled rotten by friends Adham, Anne and Nils who live there. Have now ducked around the corner for some snorkeling and a reportedly fabulous

Posted: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 - 23:22

Leaving Erromango after three lovely lazy days. No other boats here despite the attraction of a superb freshwater swimming hole and caves...albeit with human remains. Perhaps the island's reputation

Posted: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 - 12:09

Still in Port Resolution of the stunning Tanna Island. Today we said goodbye to Dre and Reece, our epic crew who helped us get here. What a phenomenal start to our cruising season. We have only been

Posted: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 - 09:55

The boys finally made it in yesterday at 3 with Dani (me) and Arlo joining shortly after following a brief stay with a lovely local family. Lads now back ashore to clear immigration and stick up on

Posted: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 - 09:00

Still bloody motoring - day 5 of providing karma to mother nature by burning diesel for refusing to give us wind!! Lessons learned from this trip: 1) Don't change your prop to a sailing enhanced one

Posted: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 - 20:12

We have been converting diesel into two parts wind and one part water today. We've filled our tanks, had showers, made washing buckets, filled Jerry containers and anything that will hold water

Posted: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 - 11:51

It was almost impossible to go east or get some easting all I managed to do was go less West than the mother nature wanted us to go. Maybe we are meant to stop at Norfolk for a muffin! Right now the

Posted: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 - 10:45

Ummm ...... That's not daunting at all! Sent from Iridium Mail & Web.

Posted: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 - 08:18

Red sky morning sailors hang on tight! Motored all night and hosted the main about 5am. Nice gentle breeze which will no doubt steadly climb into the ferocious beast that we are usually accustomed to

Posted: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 - 13:36

image: crew posing. We had quite an off and on night with bursts of high speed and slow patches so we kept 2 reefs in from new Plymouth with squalls coming through with gusts up to 26knts but mostly

Posted: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 - 19:00

Retry the pic again, did it work this time Dad? Sent from Iridium Mail & Web.

Posted: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 - 14:48

had to alter the racing sail setup to tighten up into the wind. Not a bad days sailing, still can't believe we haven't even left nz waters yet and had so many different conditions. I've added a pic

Posted: Sun, 16 Jun 2019 - 08:03

We left New Plymouth yesterday about 4pm and headed back out into the deep blue. Our depth sounded stopped working at 450m deep and Waikato is 55 NM off our starboard bow ( we are 99kms out to sea

Posted: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 - 03:56

Arrived and anchored. Crew managed first food since departure ( chicken pie yum).

Yachts In Transit

Mirabilis

Mirabilis

Weather Reports