HaiYun

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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Posted: Thu, 3 Dec 2015 - 00:00

We moved to the Westpoint Harbor Marina, Redwood City today. It's a beautiful day to sail to this fantastic new marina!

Posted: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Marina Bay Yacht Harbour , Richmond, CA, USA
At last, we docked at the F pier end tie at the marina this morning! Hai Yun is finally arrive "home" safely!

Posted: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Time:September 17th, 2015 Finally, at 15:30, we saw Point Reyes and 2 hours later, we saw the Golden Gate Bridge! Over 100 moving targets on AIS as we getting closer to the bridge. Beautiful but

Posted: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Time:1700UTC September 16th, 2015 (10 am CA time) We had a lovely evening yesterday - reaching along with the screacher in about 8 kts of wind making 6 kts. Occasional rain cells passing

Posted: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Time:1700UTC September 15th, 2015 (10 am CA time) Yesterday was a lovely day - lots of sun and blue sky - two pods of dolphins came to visit us - both left eventually, upset we were only doing

Posted: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Time:1700UTC September 14th, 2015 (10 am CA time) LAT: 42 34.664N LON: 129 25.129W DTR: 439nm DMG: 86nm W 20g25N. AWA -135 SOG 8kts. COG 125mag MSGs Grandad reply#2, BingFang #2 Hello

Posted: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Time:1700UTC September 13th, 2015 (10 am CA time) We've had a hasty re-introduction into passage life - at least we're headed downwind - it would truly be hell trying to make something to

Posted: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Time:1700UTC September 12th, 2015 (10 am CA time) On passage again! Last night was a bit rough - the wind started at 15kts NW but built rapidly after we left the coast behind. We didn't pull

Posted: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 - 00:00

As usual, grandparents came to rescue. A new prop was bought and delivered by a seaplane to our anchorage today! Since we have a window of NW wind to go to California now, we have no time to waste

Posted: Sun, 6 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Bunsby Island, BC, Canada lToday was not our best day. As we were leaving Gay Passage in the Bunsby's this morning our propellor fell off ! Yep, gone. Max dove down to check - saildrive but no

Posted: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Ououkinsh Inlet, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Fantastic anchorage despite the rain. Rowed to explore the rivers, very interesting.

Posted: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Bunsby Island, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada Motor sailed from 11 am to 7 pm to Bunsby Island. It was pretty rough on the way. The anchorage is very peaceful, so many little islands, very

Posted: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 - 00:00

Julia Cove, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada Change of crew members: James arrived at Port Alice on Aug 28th, grandparents and Erik left on Aug 31st . Left Port Alice today in the rain. After we

Posted: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 - 00:00

Rumble Beach Marina，Port Alice, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada After 26h motoring (192 nm), we arrived at Julian Cove, Vancouver Island this morning. Today is grandpa’s 89th birthday and grandpa

Posted: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 - 00:00

Etches Point It’s a raining day. We got up very early, motored to an anchorage near the SGang Gwaay heritage site. Max was too nervous to leave Hai Yun on this windy site with rocky bottom. Erik

Posted: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 - 00:00

Etches Point, Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada We had 14 crabs in our 2 traps this morning at Matheson Inlet! Unfortunately, only 3 male red rock crabs to keep, returned the rest. We motored 5h to get to

Posted: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 - 00:00

Matheson Inlet, Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada

Fantastic anchorage!

Posted: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 - 00:00

Haswell Bay, Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada The weather is not that great, so, we stay put. Max, Jingli and Erik went to the shore for a walk/climb to the lake. It was very difficult (at least for

Posted: Thu, 20 Aug 2015 - 00:00

Haswell Bay, Haida Gwaii, BC, Canada
It’s a beautiful day today! We visited two Haida heritage sites, Tanu and Windy Bay. They are quite different but, very interesting.

Posted: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 - 00:00

Trotter Bay, Haida Gwaii This morning, all of us, except Erik, went to shore had a great hike on an old logging road. At 2:30 in the afternoon we lifted the anchor and motor toward the Luoise

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