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Elliot 14m Sloop

Crew Warwick and Lanie Hamlin

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Posted: Mon, 1 May 2017 - 11:24

Arrived in Opua yesterday and today caught up with some boatie friends. We are still sorting out some teething problems, but should be ready to go anytime after today when the weather window

Posted: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 - 11:09

currently cruising past Tutakaka heading for B.O.I

Posted: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 - 16:42

gulf harbour marina. Two days to go before leaving for Opua, Bay of Islands.

Posted: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 - 09:08

We had a fabulous SW sail down the coast from Opua yesterday and anchored at Christian Bay (inside Kawau) for the night. We intend to be back at Gulf Harbour today as we have a few people to catch

Posted: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 - 17:09

Just arrived in Opua Marina after a lovely sail and then motor to make water and have been cleared by Customs and Immigration. Glad to be back and looking forward to a decent sleep tonight. Thanks

Posted: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 - 07:33

A good night of sailing with SSW winds & a boat speed of 6-8kn. We passed North Cape about midnight and are now on the home straight, with nice smooth seas compared to what we have been used to for

Posted: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 - 18:45

Another long day of constant SSW winds between 22-27kn and very uncomfortable sea. We are progressing quite well and expect to be in Opua sometime Sunday avo (all going well). All the winter

Posted: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 - 07:21

Not a great night. A frontal system hit us about 1700hrs that was alot stronger than we thought it was going to be, gusting wind speeds of over 40kn NE and rain and 3 mtr N swells and wind chop

Posted: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 - 18:33

Its been a wild ride this afternoon with thunder and rain and 15-30kn N winds, averaging 8-9 kn, and surfing down waves at 14.9kn. We had to bring out the wet weather gear and hot drinks - a stark

Posted: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 - 08:42

At 0900hrs the NW wind arrived and we have been sailing ever since, averaging 7.5kn with 15-20kn behind us. We have had a slight problem with our Gennoa furler sticking, so we have the stay sail

Posted: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 - 18:39

Started the day motoring, but then with the NE winds picking up 10-12kn, we put up the gennaker for a couple of hours, before the wind turned NNW and died. We have been motoring ever since, good

Posted: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 - 08:09

A good start to the night of gentle sailing with between 10-18 ESE winds, then the wind died and turned NE about 2.00am and the motor went on and is still on. A couple of cargo ships passed us and

Posted: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 - 18:30

Not a bad sunny day of smooth sailing, even the genneka came out for half an hour. A couple of times we put the motor on briefly, but mainly sailing with between 8-14kn SE winds. The long line was

Posted: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 - 08:03

We had a great nights sailing with SE winds of between 15-20kn and doing between 7-10kn. Unfortunately about 5.30am on my watch the winds have died and we have started up the motor, so motor sailing

Posted: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 - 19:09

We have had a great day of Sailing 10-15kn SE Winds, travelling between 7-9kn. Beautiful sunny day - almost too hot when you can't jump off for a swim (no complaints tho - Im sure we will be wanting

Posted: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 - 08:33

D-Day has arrived and we are finally leaving from Baie de Ugo in the Isle of Pines. We checked out of Noumea last Wednesday and spent our last few days doing some amazing dives with Bruce and Lyn

Posted: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 - 08:47

Sailed down to the Isle of Pines after checking out of Noumea on Wednesday. Had a dive at Gadji on Saturday & will dive again today. Looking at heading home this week all going well with the weather

Posted: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 - 08:42

Its been a great week of kite boarding at Ilot Maitre in Noumea with lots of new friends we have been hanging out with every day for the last 3 weeks. We all went out for dinner and watched the

Posted: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 - 09:09

The wind has finally arrived and we have been kiting at Ilot Maitre (a small island 20 minutes from Noumea). Quite a few NZ and Aussie boats who are all kiters have gathered and we are having a blast

Posted: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 - 09:02

We have been island hopping around the Noumea area, especially those islands with moorings while we had our anchor winch problem. Although we did go to the mainland to celebrate my 50th Birthday and

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