HaiYun

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HaiYun 海韵 is a MacGregor65 monohull fiberglass sailboat built in 1992. Her current owners, the Allen-Wang family, sailed her from Vancouver Island (Oct 2007) to New Zealand (Nov 2008) via Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Kiribati,  Tuvalu, Fiji then New Zealand.  She is currently in Gulf Harbor Marina getting ready for the high sea again.  Before leaving New Zealand bound for California,USA in the mid-March, 2015, she is going to explore the south island of NZ. Hai Yun has made a landfall on Sep 17th, 2015 at the SF Bay, California, USA. Along the way from Dunedin, NZ, she had made landfalls at Gambia French Polynesia Islands, Oahu island of Hawaii, Sitka of Alaska and Haida Gwaii of Canada.More photos of HaiYun can be viewed at https://sites.google.com/site/svhaiyun65/home

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HaiYun - June 11, 2015
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t= Saturday 6 June 23:59 UTC, Today's Run 175 nautical miles, distance to go 634 n miles. SOG 10 knoys, COG 290 deg mag, Wind NE 10-15 knots. Our wonderful trade winds dropped to 6-8 kts this morning ... Read More
HaiYun - June 7, 2015
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t = Friday 5 June 23:59 UTC. Today's Run 188 nautical miles, distance to go 802 nautical miles. SOG 8.5 knots, COG 290 deg mag. Wind NE 15 knots. More good trade winds today- based on the forecast ... Read More
HaiYun - June 6, 2015
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t = Thursday 4 June 23:59 UTC Today's Run 208 nautical miles, , distance to go 982 nautical miles, SOG 8.5 knots, COG 290 deg mag, Wind NE 15 knots. Good run today - we really do have the trade winds ... Read More
HaiYun - June 5, 2015
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t = Wednesday 3 June 23:59 UTC Today's run 198 nautical miles, distance to go 1190 nautical miles. SOG 8.5 knots, COG 300 deg mag, Wind NE 15 knots. We are not completely out of the strange weather ... Read More
HaiYun - June 4, 2015
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t = Tuesday 2 June 23:59 UTCZ. Today's Run 134 nautical mies, distance to go 1376 nautical miles. SOG 7.5 knots, COG 300 deg mag, Wind NE 12 knots. We think we may have finally arrived into the ... Read More
HaiYun - June 4, 2015
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t = Monday 1 June 23:59 UTC Today's Run 140 nautical miles, Distance to go 1495 nautical miles, SOG 6 knots, COG N, Wind W to S, 0 to 20 knots. In our little ITCZ part of the world we have had calm ... Read More
HaiYun - June 2, 2015
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t = Sunday 31 May 23:59 UTC. Today's Run 149 nautical miles, Distance to go 1595 nautical miles, SOG 6 knots, COG 320 deg mag, Wind SW 10 knots. We are in our own little bit of the ITCZ today - ... Read More
HaiYun - June 1, 2015
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t = Saturday 30 May 23:59 UTC. Today's Run 154 nautical miles, Distance to go 1727 nautical miles,SOG 7.5 knots, COG 320 deg mag, Wind SW 4 knots Last night about midnight our lovely southerly ... Read More
HaiYun - May 31, 2015
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t = Friday 29 May 23:59 UTC. Today's Run 182 nautical miles, Distance to go 1838 nautical miles, SOG 7.5 knots, COG 10 deg mag, Wind SSE 8-12 knots, We crossed the equator today at 7:23 AM Mangareva ... Read More
HaiYun - May 30, 2015
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t = Thursday 28 May 23:59 UTC (1459 Mangareva Time)_ Today's Run 204 nautical miles, Distance to go 1938 nautical miles.SOG 7 knots, COG 0 deg mag. Wind ESE 10-15 knots Great mileage in the last day ... Read More
HaiYun - May 30, 2015
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t = Wednesday 27 May 23:59 UTC (1459 Mangareva Time) Today's Run 187 nautical miles, Distance to go 2087 nm, SOG 8 knots, COG 0 deg mag, Wind E 13 - 17 knots, We had more beautiful trade wind ... Read More
HaiYun - May 30, 2015
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t = Tuesday 26 May 1459 Mangareva Time. Today's Run 171 nautical miles. SOG 7.5 knots, Wind E 15-20 knots Distance To Go 2219 nm, More beautiful trade winds today - lots of flying fish! It is getting ... Read More
HaiYun - May 30, 2015
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t = Monday 25 May 1459 Mangareva Time. Today's Run 161 nautical miles SOG 6.8 kts, Wind E 15-20 knots, Distance to go 2357 nautical miles. Beautiful trade wind reaching again today though we are not ... Read More
HaiYun - May 25, 2015
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t = Sunday 24 May 1459 Mangareva Time. Today's Run = 253 nautical miles. SOG 7 kts Wind E 20 gusting 28 knots.We're definitely in the trades now - mostly around 17 knots but above 20 knots this ... Read More
HaiYun - May 25, 2015
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t = Saturday 23 May 1459 Mangareva Time. Present wind 13 kts ENE, SOG 7 kts. Wind came around this morning to the East so the engine was finally off. For a time it was quite strong, over 20 knots ... Read More
HaiYun - May 25, 2015
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t= Friday 22 May 1459 Mangareva Time We've had a great trip so far but still motorsailing in fairly light wind. Hope we reach the easterly trades soon Our massive stock of bananas from Rikitea is ... Read More
HaiYun - May 25, 2015
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t = Thursday 21 May 2015 7 AM Mangareva Time

HaiYun - May 25, 2015
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t = Thursday 21 May 2015 1459 Mangareva Time

HaiYun - May 17, 2015
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some photos taken on the voyage from New Zealand to Gambier

Hai Yun beating into the 30+ kts wind.
  • Rainbow is beautiful, squalls are not!
  • Beautiful sunset.
  • Changing propane tank at the sea was a very wet job.
  • fried flying fish and fried pork chop, good meal on voyage on a not too rough day.
  • Good meal on a rough day; combined cane food with freshly made dishes.
  • good meal (3 dishes!) to celebrate seeing the land again!
  • comforting food 咸泡饭 for the ladies
HaiYun - May 17, 2015
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A very friendly local man named Patrice gave us so many bananas today! Too many for us to eat, will share with other cruisers.

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