Kailani

Kailani is a Deerfoot 63 designed by Steve Dashew and built by Salthouse Brothers in New Zealand in 1990. With a waterline of 60' she is fast as well as sea kindly and safe. She has spent her life under four previous owners in the Caribbean, the Great Lakes and east coast of the USA and the Med where her current owners purchased her in 2010. She is now home to Harley, Jennifer and daughter Sophia.

For detailed blogs and photos see our website www.LaughterJourney.com

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Posted: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 - 00:06

DAY 2 3533 nm to Barbados. Motorsailing at 8.5kt 290T, no sails. We tried and we tried to sail last night, and at 0400 this morning we finally had to succumb to motor as the 5kts of wind was having

Posted: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 - 00:15

DAY 1 3645 nm to Barbados. We dropped our mooring at 1000 and sailed over to a sea mount to check out the whale sharks. We had one swim directly from stbd to port under our bow about 10ft below the

Posted: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 - 08:00

On mooring, James Bay, St Helena. Arrived late afternoon and tied up to a mooring buoy by sundown, helped by our friends from SY Carpe Diem. On the way in along this very impressive rock of an

Posted: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 - 01:06

50 nm to St Helena. 8.4 kts at 315T, motoring - no sails. Just noticed that the last 2 noon reports had position errors with E as opposed to W longitude - sorry about that! A decided "LAND HO!" was

Posted: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 - 00:06

230 nm to St Helena. 7.6 kts at 315T, motoring - no sails. Yesterday afternoon we rigged the Code 0 (light air sail), preparing for the wind to decrease. We pulled in the jib and lowered the main

Posted: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 - 00:06

390 nm to St Helena. 7.0 kts at 315T, stbd beam reach, sgl reefed main plus jib. Gorgeous day here in the S Atlantic, following a mostly uneventful nightwatch. For the first time in 5 nights we had

Posted: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 - 00:21

527 nm to St Helena. 9.0 kts at 302T, stbd beam reach, sgl reefed main plus jib. Yay - this morning we took down the pole and gybed to a beam reach, ending over 60 hours of wing and wing sailing

Posted: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 - 00:06

688 nm to St Helena. 6.1 kts at 302T, port dead down wind, sgl reefed main plus poled out jib. Lots of overnight squalls again, shifting and altering wind strength throughout. We are sailing as

Posted: Sat, 24 Mar 2018 - 00:27

852 nm to St Helena. 8.4 kts at 311T, port dead down wind, sgl reefed main plus poled out jib. An hour before sunset last night we decided to rig wing-and-wing with a poled out jib, trying to sail

Posted: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 - 23:24

1017 nm to St Helena. 7.5 kts at 354T, stbd broad reach, sgl reefed main plus staysail. The fresh water rinses have continued as have the continued 20-25 kt winds. We stayed on port tack for as long

Posted: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 - 23:00

1180 nm to St Helena. 10.0 kts at 284T, port broad reach, sgl reefed main plus staysail. Yesterday afternoon it was so lovely and calm with no real seas, meaning Kailani was sailing along at 4 kts

Posted: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 - 23:00

1350 nm to St Helena. 6.0 kts at 277T, port close reach, sgl reefed main plus jib. Sure is peaceful out here in the Atlantic. We entered solid cloud cover last night, and since then the wind has

Posted: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 - 23:06

1512 nm to St Helena. 8.3 kts at 300T, port broad reach, sgl reefed main plus jib. We cleared Cape Town harbor at 1500 local time yesterday afternoon, and began the first night of our Atlantic

Posted: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 - 00:33

1700 nm to St Helena. Throwing off the dock lines here at the V&A Waterfront, and once we clear the two bridges that need to be raised, we are ocean bound for St Helena. All well on board.

Posted: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 - 07:57

The best laid plan is the antithesis of ocean sailing. We made good time around the Cape of Good Hope under sail before the wind died off completely. When we began to motor sail the seal on the prop

Posted: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 - 06:12

On the dock, False Bay Yacht Club, Simon's Town, South Africa. We have been here 3 weeks - prepping Kailani and waiting for the wind to calm down so we can make it around the Cape of Good Hope

Posted: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 - 03:48

After 27 hours of air flying time and 11 hours of driving and transit time in airports, we arrived here in the US a week ago. Since we flew from S Africa via westbound flights, our arrival back in

Posted: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 - 23:45

On the dock, False Bay Yacht Club, Simon's Town, South Africa. So, we made it. Concluding over 7500 nm of hard sailing in the last four-and-a-half months, we tied up Kailani yesterday morning at

Posted: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 - 12:36

Anchored in the lee of the naval base in Simons Town, South Africa. It is 0130 local and we'll post a more detailed entry tomorrow after we are tied up at the dock but suffice it to say that this

Posted: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 - 23:03

89 nm to Simon's Town, SA. Motorsailing 8.4kts at 275T, dbl reefed main. Well perhaps it was a bit naive (or optimistic?) that we could make this final 400 nm passage without any drama ... At 1315

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