HaiYun

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 - April 17, 2015
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t = Thursday 16 April 15:00 NZST Present Conditions: Wind WNW 20-25 knots gusting 35 knots, squally rain cells. SOG 8 knots. COG 46 deg mag. Barometric Pressure 999.4 hPa and steady. AWA 140 deg ... Read More
HaiYun - April 16, 2015
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t = Wednesday 15 April 14:00 NZSTPresent Conditions: Wind WNW 20-25 knots gusting 30 knots SOG 7 knots COG 60 deg mag. AWA 150 degrees Pressure 1005.2 hPa, rising slowly.Our morning started in the ... Read More
HaiYun - April 14, 2015
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t = Tuesday 14 April 14:00 NZST . Present conditions: Wind WNW 20 knots gusting 30 knots. SOG 9 Knots. COG 49 deg magnetic. Apparent Wind Angle 130 degrees. Barometric pressure 989.9 hPa and rising ... Read More
HaiYun - April 14, 2015
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t = Monday 13 April 14:00 NZST. Present conditions: Wind NNW 25 knots gusting 35 knots. SOG 6.2 Knots COG 50 deg magnetic. Apparent wind angle (AWA) = 80 deg. Pressure =992.3 hPa and falling. Still ... Read More
HaiYun - April 13, 2015
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t = Sunday 12 April 14:00 NZST Present conditions: Wind NNW 25 knots gusting 35 knots. SOG 6 knots COG 35 deg Magnetic. Pressure 1001.2 and falling. Conditions are pretty wild right now. Our nice ... Read More
HaiYun - April 12, 2015
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t = Saturday 11 April 14:00 NZST Present conditions: Wind S 20 knots, SOG 7.7 knots COG 51 deg M. A very good run today (first 200 nm Day) With strong S wind had her speed up in the high teens util ... Read More
HaiYun - April 11, 2015
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t = Friday April 10 14:30 NZST Wind SW 25-30 knots, SOG 10 knots. COG 20 deg magnetic. We had a tough night NE 20 knots came up and the hydraulic vang fitting crumbled at the mast as I was putting ... Read More
HaiYun - April 11, 2015
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t = Thursday April 9 15:48 NZST Wind 15-20 knots NE SOG 6 knots. Our exit from Dunedin was blustery! We stopped in Port Chalmers on the way out for diesel and Customs clearance. It was gusting 30 ... Read More
HaiYun - April 11, 2015
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t = Wednesday 8 April 15:37 NZST Leaving Otago Yacht Club for Port Chalmers

HaiYun - April 6, 2015
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A big project was done at Dunedin: Grandma's seat is ready! We were lucky to meet a very skilled stainless genius, Robt Watt, here to help Max built and installed the diesel heater within a week of ... Read More
HaiYun - March 29, 2015
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Drifted under the sail the rest of the way, waited at the channel entrance from 2am until day light.

HaiYun - March 27, 2015
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Arrived the Otago Yacht Club at 10:30am (high tide), calm weather. Rafted along the side of another boat. We joined the club member dinner gathering tonight, met some extremely friendly people. Very ... Read More
Hai Yun entering the Otago Yacht Club at 10:30am 27th March, 2015.
HaiYun - March 26, 2015
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Left the Sylvan Cove, Stewart Island at 15:22 on 25th March, 2015. Had some good wind going 8 kts under main and screecher at beginning, but the wind died about 3 hr later, had to motor sail until ... Read More
HaiYun - March 25, 2015
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t = Tuesday 24 March 20:00 NZDT Very Windy. Rainy. Probably leave for Dunedin tomorrow.

HaiYun - March 25, 2015
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t = Sunday 22 March 19:57 NZDT Another beautiful sunny day. Ladies fishing. Success!

HaiYun - March 25, 2015
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t = Wednesday 18 March 19:32 NZDT Great Walk. Rakiura. 31 K steps. Cockles for dinner.

HaiYun - March 16, 2015
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Moved back to Golden Bay. Female crew members did part of the Rakiura great walk from Lee Bay, absolutely gorgeous! Poor captain had to stay on the boat ordering spare parts to be delivered to ... Read More
HaiYun - March 15, 2015
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Sent Erik off to his big North American University tour in the morning. Walked on Ryan Creek trail to the airport and back, very nice!  Moved to Sydney Bay, Ulva Island as forecast predicted 25kts ... Read More
HaiYun - March 14, 2015
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<p>Sailed back to Golden Bay. With the main sail only,&nbsp;Hai Yun reached 9 kts with the 25-30 kts wind on the nose. Crazy captain!</p>

HaiYun - March 13, 2015
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On Stewart Island, Brown Kiwi is estimated about 20,000 while only 387 humans live here all year round. We got up at 4:30am, went to the shore at 5:30am, walked to the east side beach to see kiwi ... Read More

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