Ambler 2

Ambler is an Island Packet 485, cream in colour, with a cutter rig. Home port is Adelaide, South Australia.

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Posted: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 - 18:54

Good evening friends and families of Ambler II, Friday saw us finalise our shopping and official duties in Neiafu and at about 4:00pm we departed the Customs wharf, negotiated the port channel and

Posted: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 - 14:54

Hello Sportsfans, welcome back to the adventures of Ambler II. We are still hard at it in northern Tonga, sailing and exploring the Vava?u group with occasional sorties into the capital, Neiafu, and

Posted: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 - 17:21

Hello family and friends, Our stay anchored off Sandy Beach Resort has been brilliant! We shared the anchorage with a lovely family from Sydney who have their young son and daughter out of primary

Posted: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 - 19:00

Hi to you dwellers in the cold, After a very pleasant overnight tied to the wharf at the village port of Pangai we departed at 08:30am and headed north along the Ha’apai Group to Foa Island. At the

Posted: Fri, 31 May 2019 - 20:30

Good afternoon all, What a beautiful morning’s sailing we’ve enjoyed today. We pulled the anchor at Peapea Isl at about 08:00 am and turned slightly east of north with an eight knot easterly

Posted: Thu, 30 May 2019 - 15:39

Hi there folks, Further to yesterday?s stop press announcement we did in fact catch two tuna. One, the chef turned into beautiful seasoned tuna steaks served with a rice and vegetable pilaf like

Posted: Wed, 29 May 2019 - 13:03

Hello to all you beautiful people, Today we have left the Tongatapu, or southern Tongan island group, and we are motor sailing north towards Nomuka in the very south of the Ha?apai, or central Tongan

Posted: Tue, 28 May 2019 - 15:33

welcome back sports fans, how sweet it is to be back communicating with you all and highlighting details of this amazing voyage. Last Wednesday after a brief rest at Atata Island we entered

Posted: Wed, 22 May 2019 - 10:12

Good morning one and all, The Bay of Islands, NZ, to Tongatapu Island, Tonga, an eight day voyage including one beautiful day at South Minerva Reef. We had a glorious first six days sailing and a

Posted: Tue, 21 May 2019 - 11:00

Good morning viewers Huey has stuck to his word and whilst the conditions are unpleasant they are well within the capabilities of Ambler II. The 2-3m large chop from just 30 degrees off the starboard

Posted: Mon, 20 May 2019 - 10:42

Good morning customers, Huey has threatened us with less than perfect weather towards the end of the week so we have decided to bypass North Minerva Reef and set course for Tonga. We need to be

Posted: Sun, 19 May 2019 - 14:09

Hello smilers and frowners, Well, apparently it?s all over? The smoke signals we are receiving at anchor in the lagoon of South Minerva Reef are indicating that Bill Shorten has beaten John Hewson by

Posted: Sat, 18 May 2019 - 11:39

Hello voters, Saturday morning finds us in a very pleasant east-south easterly breeze of generally 10-15kt with occasional gusts around 18kt. Friday?s weather was again as forecast with the morning

Posted: Fri, 17 May 2019 - 11:42

Hello sports fans, Another wonderful day sailing with the assy spinnaker. We are now of a similar latitude to Brisbane and the temperature is warming. The wind has held steady through the night from

Posted: Thu, 16 May 2019 - 10:36

Hi all, The last couple of days have seen us coping with very light winds that have swung about the stern, never quite settling to enable an ideal ground track course to be set. However, no

Posted: Wed, 15 May 2019 - 10:27

Ambler II is motoring at 7.8 knots, having used an asymmetric spinnaker for part of the previous afternoon and evening. All four persons on board are all well and rested but looking forward to a

Posted: Tue, 14 May 2019 - 11:54

Hi all, Departed Opua this morning, bound for the Minerva Reefs, after enjoying the community and hospitality of the Marina over the last 4 or 5 days. All well on board, sun is shining but light on

Posted: Sat, 11 May 2019 - 07:27

Hello Readers, We continue to be impressed and delighted by the Bay of Islands with its cornucopia of safe and commodious anchorages. Actually James Cook described these bays as ?commodious ?so

Posted: Fri, 3 May 2019 - 06:27

Here are the latest goings on from Ambler . 2 days spent in Westhaven Marina in Downtown Auckland along with the other 2,400 boats... Jim holed up in the library on WiFi ( forward planning)while I

Posted: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 - 13:33

Hello from the crew on Ambler this fresh ,sunny Monday morning. We are as I scribe ,sailing into Auckland from a rather beautiful , green island called Waiheke where we anchored last night in Man

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