[password] Fluenta2014
[position]27 52.844s 176 08.95e
[status] Close reaching over calmer seas. New Simrad autopilot drive replaced with antique Robertson drive. Autopilot working fine now.
[speed] 5.0
[heading] 215T
[weather] TWD 145T TWS 8 kts. Baro 1017.7
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[password] cosmos13
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position: 036 05.22s 174 35.48e
date: 24/11/2014
Mangawhai Harbour. Nice holiday settlement with shops, tavern etc. Beautiful sandy beaches either side of the inlet. Shallow sand bank at the entry can break in SW seas.
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position: 36 25.55s 174 50.22e
date: 25/11/2014
Relaxing, again, in a little bay on the island of Kawau (sounds Hawaiian doesn't it?
Might stay a couple of days if the weather clear.... been cloudy for days now!!
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[password] Astarte422
[position]35 43.5s 174 19.6e
[status] safely arrived marsden cove marina, at sunset Sunday night
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[password] gXnOwRii
[position] 33 41.570s 174 07.110e
[speed] 4.0
[heading] 174T
[weather]0% cloud cover, 15sw, bar. 1018, 2.00m sea.
[status] 10th day to Opua, all is well on board, 100M to go.
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[password] VA7SDR
[position]28 00.672s 175 04.701e
[status] En route to Opua, great day sailing, sunny, wind dropped steadily but at 6 pm still 10 knts; close reach, so good speeds 7 to 9 knots. Trying to get new weather report/Grib to see what is happening with the trough over NZ Wed./Thurs. this week....just when we expect to arrive!
[speed]8.0
[heading]221T
[weather]10knts S 1.5m swell from S 10% cloud cover bar 1018 down 2.[END]

[password] tusitalaDB
[position] 31 04S 175 36E
[status] Wind went south, hard on the wind now hoping it doesn't blow a gale from the west!
[speed] 5.5
[heading] 165T
[weather] 17 knots SS, 50% cloud cover, .5m wind waves S
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[password] Fluenta2014
[position]26 46.783s 177 25.104e
[status] CLose reaching. Hand steering as autopilot ram has died. Will replace later today. Two dorado caught yesterday. Fishing lines out of the water now.
[speed] 6.5
[heading] 2158
[weather] 12 kts TWS 128T TWD Cloud cover scattered Cu. Baro 1019.1
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[password] cavaloatsea
[position] 33 07S 174 23E
[speed] 5.5knts
[heading] 205T
[status] moving nicely just off the wind, should be at our turning waypoint in a couple hours to head south towards Opua. We could be in by tomorrow night??? Lets not get ahead of ourselves.
[weather] 12-15KNTS WSW, Seas a little choppy, 100 percent cloud[END]