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.