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.

Recent Updates

Posted: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 - 16:21

A little bit of a frustrating night. Wind was up and down all night with squalls. Reefs were going in and out all night long. Had a light wind spell this morning and had to motor for a while. Now

Posted: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 - 16:15

We were able to stop motoring at 1800 hours on Friday and are now sailing in pleasant light trade winds. All is well on board.

Posted: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 - 16:18

We had to turn motor on at 10:00 hrs today because, as forcasted, we have a light wind day today. The forcast calls for the SE trades to come back during the night and carry us all the way to Vila

Posted: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 - 18:21

We have checked out of Fiji heading to Port Vila. Good trade wind conditions at present. All is well on board.

Posted: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 - 20:00

We have had a good trip south from Blue Lagoon. Landed a good Walu yesterday. We had a great swim with Manta Rays this morning at first light. We are currently anchored at Mana Island.

Posted: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 - 18:54

Currently at Blue Lagoon along with our friends Doreen and Ian. Had a good sail up from Manta Ray pass today in 14 - 19 Kts of E wind. Had a small fish on today but it managed to get away before we

Posted: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 - 17:54

Good sail over from Vuda. Good to be back in Musket Cove....even if it is a bit blustery! Kylie has a flight out on Tues so it's good to be where we can swim and snorkle.

Posted: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 - 17:15

We are currently at Saweni Bay. Will be going into Vuda Point in the morning.

Posted: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 - 17:12

We arrived in Viani Bay on Sunday and left Tues after two great dives on Rainbow reef. We tied to a mooring ball at Paradise Resort (Taviuni)on Tuesday night. The SE trades have picked up today and

Posted: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 - 16:27

We are on the move again! We left Savusavu at 0700 Hrs heading up to Viani Bay. Currently anchored at Fawn harbour. It was a good sail but rainy mostly all day.

Posted: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 - 07:21

We are safely on a mooring bouy at Savusavu awaiting customs clearance. This trip is one for the memory books with some of everything. We used all but 4L of our fuel (100 hours) so that was more

Posted: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 - 08:09

Rough night with sudden increase in wind speed with gusts over 40 kts and a sustained period over 30 Kts - this was not on our forecast. We are all well and will be in Savusavu later tonight

Posted: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 - 16:54

We have kept just enough fuel to get into port (6L). We used the rest to motor sail north on Thursday night to get into some better winds. At first light this morning we raised the full main and

Posted: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 - 07:32

just enough fuel to use on arrival - they hope!

Posted: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 - 19:06

We have motor sailed for a day and a half in search of the illusive SE trades. The wind is slightly more now than it has been so we are trying the Genaker - not really enough but we are rationing

Posted: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 - 08:56

turned the motor off an hour ago. There will be no report for a couple of days as Gulf Harbour radio has gone AWOL

Posted: Thu, 31 May 2018 - 08:11

via Pilgrim as radio not strong enough to reach Gulf harbour

Posted: Wed, 30 May 2018 - 17:42

All well on board. (report came in at 8am)

Posted: Sun, 6 Nov 2016 - 09:06

Arrived at the Q-dock in Opua at 9.00 AM NZ time on Sunday morning. The last few days have been perfect sailing in moderate SW and then W winds. It has been a good trip - 8.8 days, 1215 nm, moving

Posted: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 - 08:30

eta noon Sunday in Opua

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