[p]Fluenta2014
[pos]35 18.783s 174 07.335e
[sp] 0
[h]0
[w]TWS 7.1 kts TWD 015T Baro 1024.6
[s] Alongside the 'Q' dock in Opua this afternoon after a lovely downwind sail through the Bay of Islands right to within a few feet short of the dock. Greeted back to New Zealand by dolphins, a shark and baby blue penguins. Also, a Fluenta first, our autopilot made it all the way to from the tropics to New Zealand without failure (the autopilot drive failed on each of the last two trips from the tropics to NZ - we replaced our wimpy Simrad autopilot drive with one from Hy-Pro Drive while we were in the Marshall Islands). Limited new things on the repair list this time: a blown out panel in the dodger, my cover for the rigid SUP is shredded, the safety knife on the pushpit disappeared (it had been there for five years without a problem), and a new leak on the engine's injector pump. A few new things as well on the rebedding list to keep the water out before the next longer passage.
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails.