Kairos II

Kairos II is a 45ft traditionally constructedi timber ketch built in Vancouver in 1979. She has spent most of her life in Nelson, New Zealand having made numerous trips to the Pacific Islands. Her current owners have owned her for the past 7 years refitting her for another offshore trip to the Pacific Islands and beyond!

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Posted: Sat, 8 Oct 2016 - 21:09

Bonsoir, Clearing into New Cal was a breeze with very friendly officials and no stress except for the fact that they do not speak much English. We like what we see so far, the land reminds us of the

Posted: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 - 07:15

Bonjour!!! Heading into Havanah passage now. Got the lines out for early morning bite!!!.

Posted: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 - 19:03

No wind today. Motored a fair bit and now drifting in an oily calm sea listening to music and cooking dinner. Stalling for a few hours before starting the engine up and make our approach to Havanah

Posted: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 - 08:24

Another night of light winds . A mixture of sailing and motoring with wind slowly backing. Motoring now and ETA is for first light tomorrow. Hopefully get the Geniker up today. Pos at 0800 NZDT

Posted: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 - 18:24

Another day of light winds from the SE. Gilding along with all sail up in flat seas. Malins just whipping up a chocolate cake with fijian rum and plums for dessert for my night watch. Had panko

Posted: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 - 07:33

Managed to sail through the night in light winds and no sea. Pos as at 0700 NZDT. All well onboard. We are receiving the comments/posts from people ashore so thanks for that. J and M

Posted: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 - 20:06

Light winds all day so lots of motoring Pos as at 1800hrs NZDT. Hit the half way mark so decided on a scrabble comp this evening!!

Posted: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 - 07:15

Lights winds this morning but a good run last night. Pos as at 0600hrs NZDT

Posted: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 - 18:09

Lights winds this morning but SE'ly trades built up this afternoon. Getting back into the swing of passage mode with a bit of reading and bread making going on. Great day on the briny!!!

Posted: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 - 06:30

Position as at 0600NZDT, great nights sail and all well onboard

Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 - 18:36

Cleared Navula Passage at 0730 hrs, Wind was light southerly for the morning and slowly building all day. ETA for Havanah passage New Caledonia is for Wednesday morning. All well onboard. Position

Posted: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 - 19:36

Cleared out of Fiji today and on our way to New Caledonia. The winds look light but hoping we will reach Noumea Wednesday morning.Its been hard saying goodbye to all the lovely people we have met

Posted: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 - 11:41

We survived Musket Cove Regatta week!!! Only just though. Musket Cove put on an amazing week of activities, racing, BBQs, parties, music. Such a great event!! As of today we are now looking at

Posted: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 - 15:06

Hi all, We are back again, chasing waves at Musket Cove. The trip up to the Yasawa Islands did deliver blue lagoons, Manta rays and exciting navigational hazards (aka uncharted bommies and reefs). A

Posted: Thu, 11 Aug 2016 - 07:14

After a solid month of fantastic surf conditions and brilliant sunshine, things have changed. The heavens remained open for 4 days and the surf died with it. So it is time for us to do some

Posted: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 - 20:23

Bula everyone, No we have not dropped off the edge of the world!! It has been a couple of weeks of surfing pretty much every day and the waves have been great. I have broken Malins favourite pink leg

Posted: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 - 10:24

Still parked up in Musket Cove, Malololailai Island. It has been an epic week or so of surfing and Musket is a Surfers/Yachties dream. We could quite easily just stay here for the next 6 weeks

Posted: Sun, 26 Jun 2016 - 17:23

Been surfing the last 4 days straight at Namotu Island and it has been amazing. Musket cove is a great spot to come back to at the end of the day and the bare foot bar is a great spot to catch up

Posted: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 - 18:22

After a couple of days in Denarau Marina getting stores,water,fuel we motored to Malololili Island aka Musket Cove. Both Denarau and Musket are really accommodating to yachts which was great. We will

Posted: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 - 13:57

Anchored up in Momi Bay, had a good sail this morning under headsail alone. Having a bit of a dinner tonight onboard with Lex and Jo off Intrinsic. Off to Denarau in the morning to hunt down some

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