Bravado

Bravado is an Elliot Tourer 14.5m built in NZ in 1997. Owned by Al & Shirl Reynolds from Waipu .NZ.

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Posted: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 - 20:39

Welcomed to NZ by dolphins this evening. great sail past Nth Cape once Westerly kicked in at 1530. Swell gone & reaching down coast, lookin to be stunning sunset soon, no clouds, last night at sea

Posted: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 - 09:18

Sailed till 0230 then motor sailed into headwinds & 2 m swells. Our world has now been on an angle for 5 days. All looking forward to level land. Closest land only 1 km away but unfortunately its

Posted: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 - 18:54

Headwinds straight out from Langs Beach, thanks Shirl....Pushing 2kn tide this afternoon so motor sailing in 2 m rollers most of the day and into tonight. Seas bit sloppy . Roast Chicken Dinner on

Posted: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 - 08:30

Good SW winds of 14-18kn last night had us reaching at 7-8 kn through the night. At 0500 an unexpected rain squall got the crew up & motivated us to reef quickly. Great crew work. Blue sky with

Posted: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 - 20:21

Beautiful sailing most of day in light winds and sunny Sky. Boys powering through novels, lots of relaxing & snoozing going on. Heading into 4th night at sea and all aboard happy. Light head winds

Posted: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 - 08:48

Motorsailed straight into it last night with quite a few bangs to keep us on our toes. Wax earplugs resulted in good sleep for all off watch despite the movement. Suns out on a beautiful morning and

Posted: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 - 20:24

Big difference going into tonight. 18kn head winds and 2.5m seas with sharp wind chop on top has us banging & into it. Wind & seas should ease tonight we trust as we are heading towards a high

Posted: Sat, 26 Nov 2016 - 09:42

Left Code 0 up till 0300 in calm star lit night with bright phosphorescence. Good sleep for everyone and shifts went quick. Luckily performance of crew improved before Captains review meeting with

Posted: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 - 18:33

Beautiful day today reaching in 8 - 17kn.NE Sun & Code 0 out all day and its still real warm here. Lots of reading and snoozing happening among the crew. Seas dropped & real comfortable now. Lots of

Posted: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 - 08:45

All good aboard after 1st night at sea with thunder lightening all around us. We dodged the rain cells thru the night to aviod getting zapped. Good sailing, bit bumpy and winds up & down. Doing 0800

Posted: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 - 20:24

Dinner on the go bit bumpy out here on the start of the first night. Great days sail doing 8kn plus with True Blue then passing Eerie Spirit..

Posted: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 - 11:48

3 POB Ground Control to Major Tom, Anchors up & Jackets on.
Left Ilse des Pins 1000 NZ daylight time.
True Blue left same time as us.
Great start to trip to NZ...warm breeze & romping along.

Posted: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 - 09:50

Weather: E 20-25 100% Cloud & Rain. Baro 1015 Hoping to leave Ilse des Pins maybe Wednesday as soon as this low departs and winds abate. All good onboard, stores running low and beer rationing is

Posted: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 - 08:02

It's looking like Wednesday/Thursday departure from here now. Thanks David & Patricia for the great weather insights. Rigged furling inner forestay & test sailed yesterday. Great weather here at

Posted: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 - 07:52

Back afloat after leaving Bravado on Marina at Noumea for 12 days & returning to NZ. During which time someone stole entire ignition assembly from outboard ...so no outboard ....At Ile des Pins now

Posted: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 - 18:31

Ilse of Pines , Kuto. Shirl saw her 1st Dugon when we were enjoying the sunset in beanbags on forward deck last night. Too quick for a pic. Lots of big Remora's (sucker fish) under Bravado enjoying

Posted: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 - 09:21

<p>Anchored Baie Ue. Paddle Boarded up interesting River at head of bay at full tide yesterdsy. Heading to Isle Casy today to feed resident Dog today</p>

Posted: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 - 16:08

Ilot Bailly , Tucked in behind beautiful island in (Nature Reserve). Left moving it a bit late after fresh provisioning at Noumea this morn. Breeze builds mid morning & up to 20kn hard on nose so

Posted: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 - 10:41

Ilse Maitre. Nature reserve so lots of big fish in clear water around free moorings. Here with Fusio & Sharpe Focus. Lots of laughs & sundowners last night with everyone. .Elliotts dominate this

Posted: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 - 01:12

Baye Maa. Nice bay .Prob stay till Monday. Real calm here tonight.. Great sail here today in 8-10kn. Yep ...code 0 again.

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