Katie M II

Katie M II is an 11 m cutter with 2 people on board - Martin and Angela. Construction is a cold molded composite of wood and epoxy. The boat sailed from Vancouver Canada is April 2011 and went to San Fran, Marquesas, Toamotus, Societies, Sawarrow, US and Western Somoas, New Potatoes and Tonga arriving in NZ in Nov that same year. We cruised Fiji in 2012 some of NZ in 2013, In 2014 we again sailed to Fiji and also visited Vanuatu and New Cal before returning to NZ. We coastal cruised in NZ in 2015 and Fiji again in 2016. This was the year we spent 9 days at Makogi helping the Sea Mercy organization rebuild the school that was destroyed in cyclone Winston. In 2018 we are again sailing to Fiji. On this part of the trip we have a third crew member - Kylie Legg will be taking time out from her studies to discover what cruising to the tropics is all about. Later in 2018 Martin and Angela will continue on to Vanuatu and New Cal.

We use 5.4 kts as our passage planning speed (140 nm/day off the wind and ~115/nm/day to windward) - say 125-130 on an average passage.

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Posted: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 - 01:06

We enjoyed our time at Ile Casy in Baie de Prony which included walks, snorkels, a dive on the Prony needle and a side trip to the hot springs (not so hot!) and cascades. Also lots of socializing

Posted: Fri, 12 Oct 2018 - 21:33

We had an easy motor sail across from the Ile des Pins and we are now at Ile Casy in Baie de Prony. We caught a good Spanish Mackeral on the way over and Angela did a great job cooking the fish

Posted: Sat, 6 Oct 2018 - 17:57

We decided to go from Yate to the Ile des Pins and left at 0430 hrs as it is a 52 nm trip. All went well and we had a mixture of motoring, motor-sailing and sailing and got in to Baie de Kuto at

Posted: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 - 19:45

The conditions for moving south (light wind in the morning - SW winds off the land later in the day) were too good to miss out on so here we are at Yate. The wind accelerated up as high as 20 as we

Posted: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 - 20:18

We enjoyed our visit to Ouvea but today we had to pay the piper - a long hard day motor sailing south. We were running short of daylight so we have bailed out at an anchorage 6nm short of our

Posted: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 - 18:27

Moved up to Ouvea. Good downwind sail at 6.5 - 7.0 Kts with just the Genoa in around 20 kts of apparent wind. We are anchored off the Paradise hotel. This is a low atoll so we are out of the

Posted: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 - 13:39

As windward passages go this wasn't bad. Apparent wind was between 50 and 60 degrees at 16 - 25 kts - more than we needed but we were reefed down accordingly. Seas were not too bad - 1.5 - 2.0M

Posted: Sun, 23 Sep 2018 - 10:51

We spent 6 days in Vila - provisioning, fueling up and having meals ashore with cruising friends. My parts for my Autoprop arrived on Tuesday (5 days by DHL from England!) and I was able to get that

Posted: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 - 18:12

Not a bad beat from Gaspard to Epi and then Epi to Emai where we met up with Peregrine. Today we had a great sail, close reaching in 17 - 23 kts. We are currently Esema Bay at the NE end of Havana

Posted: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 - 17:30

We have moved around to Gaspard Bay which offers better protection from the strong south easterly (19 - 21 kts) winds that are blowing in open water.

Posted: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 - 19:48

We have had an interesting trip down the west side of Malakula Island. Last night we anchored in South West Bay. There is a large village (one of three in the bay) that is close to the anchorage

Posted: Tue, 4 Sep 2018 - 08:00

We enjoyed our stay anchored off the beachfront resort in Luganville. Not only were we able to do laundry, reprovision, refuel etc. but it was a good place to meet up with cruising friends over a

Posted: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 - 17:48

The back to our roots Festival culminating with the Rom dance on Friday was great. On Saturday we moved to Ranon (just 3nm south) and on Sunday Martin hiked to the top of the Ambryn volcano. It was

Posted: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 - 18:09

We had a good day at Banam Bay on Tuesday. Martin helped the chief with a problem with his solar panels and Angela took photos of the soccer team in their new uniforms. We had a good sail across to

Posted: Sun, 19 Aug 2018 - 18:21

We moved up to Banam Bay today. It is a beautiful bay protected from wind and swell in normal prevailing winds. We went ashore by dinghy and met the chief of the one village and his family. Our

Posted: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 - 18:27

We saw lots of turtles - some of them very big, but the resident dugong of Lamen Bay eluded us. We have therefore moved on. We had a good sail across (15 - 19 Kts broad reaching) and we are now in

Posted: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 - 17:39

We are now at Lamen Bay on Epi Island. This bay is nicely out of the wind but it has a surprising amount of roll so tonight will be a rolly night! Lamen Bay is famous for it's resident dugong. We

Posted: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 - 19:51

We are now at Emae Island anchored on a patch of sand between the reefs. This is a very beautiful place. We had a good snorkel between the boat and the shore - lots of interesting canyons + 3

Posted: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 - 17:27

We have now left Vila and we are on our way north. First Port of call - Havana Harbour.

Posted: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 - 15:33

We arrived in Port Vila 10:40 a.m. after a good passage with generally good trade wind sailing except for some squally conditions in the early hours of Sunday that kept us busy up and down the reefs

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