Aradonna

Aradonna is a Young 43 centre cockpit sloop. Karl and Heather sailed her to Tonga, Wallis and Fiji in 2014. It was an amazing experience! In 2015 we sailed our floating home to Vanuatu and New Caledonia. In 2017 we will sail to Tonga again and on to Fiji to visit the Lau Group.

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Posted: Fri, 8 May 2015 - 17:54

Very calm conditions today meant a chance to fix some things that have broken down along the way. The traveller for the jib sheet block and the salt water pump are now up and running again. Alas we

Posted: Fri, 8 May 2015 - 07:38

much more comfortable now

Posted: Thu, 7 May 2015 - 16:54

Enjoying the ride now and over the half way mark, yippee. Happy Birthday Martin (I meant to include that greeting yesterday - we thought of you!)

Posted: Thu, 7 May 2015 - 07:34

course change

Posted: Wed, 6 May 2015 - 17:25

All well on board, shorts and t-shirts now instead of jeans and jumpers. New solar panels keeping up with power needs during the day. GPS on the blink but happily we have Ivan (the iPad). See the

Posted: Wed, 6 May 2015 - 07:31

eta Monday in Aneityum

Posted: Tue, 5 May 2015 - 15:41

Lumpy sea but sun is shining and it is getting warmer! Both getting our sea legs now after a couple of days of feeling lethargic.
heading 335 deg M at 5 knots with reefed down sails.

Posted: Tue, 5 May 2015 - 07:42

Posted: Mon, 4 May 2015 - 07:34

radio very poor and this via relay so no course but heading to Aneityum

Posted: Sat, 2 May 2015 - 10:58

Departure day! The sun is shining, all is ready and we are looking forward to our next adventure. Vanuatu here we come! Leaving Opua now and will update our position again in a couple of days.

Posted: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 - 12:52

After a couple of windy days as we moved up the coast, we are now sitting in the Bay of Islands for the next couple of days. Getting a sail repaired before we go. Now scheduled for Saturday departure!

Posted: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 - 16:31

Weather is not so good for the trip right now! Waiting for updated forecasts for moving later in the week.

Posted: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 - 20:00

Ready to depart Gulf Harbour, will head for Marsden Cove in the morning and plan on clearing customs there to depart NZ on Wednesday. Vanuatu bound!

Posted: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 - 21:32

Four weeks until we start watching the weather for departure to Vanuatu. Just about got everything ticked off the "to do" list, will check everything is working over the next week. Time to get

Posted: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 - 16:22

After getting towed in for the last 10 miles on 1st Nov we are now having a few days on land. Have now fixed my error on the last position, must have been the excitement of seeing Coastguard - got

Posted: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 - 07:32

Near Tiritiri Island and the wind pretty much died. We were limping towards Auckland harbour when Coastguard came out to get us. Currently being towed in by Coastguard. Maritime NZ had alerted them

Posted: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 - 08:08

Sea has calmed down again so the roller coaster ride is over - yay! Had to travel more East than ideal to run with heavy weather, now heading more West again, heading straight for Auckland. We have

Posted: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 - 07:43

For a week we have been wishing for a bit more wind. Well, our wish came true! Blowing like snot (as Patricia would say) yesterday afternoon and overnight, now calmed down to around 25-30 knots SW

Posted: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 - 07:50

Wind now from NW, pushing us along at 5 knots. Heading 170M. Blue sky above us but a big bank of cloud ahead. Had a visit from NZ Airforce Orion yesterday. They did a low slow fly-by right beside us

Posted: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 - 08:15

Got becalmed again yesterday evening for a few hours, better wind again now from WSW. Doing 6.5 knots at the moment, heading 160M. Another sunny day. The beautiful weather helps to make up for having

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