Kiapa

Kiapa is a 52ft Morelli Melvin gunboat catamaran, built in Oregon, USA. We bought her in San Francisco in 2011. Her owners are Lionel and Irene Bass, who hail from Perth, Australia.

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Posted: Wed, 23 Nov 2016 - 09:31

The Captain has made the call......... we are off! We plan to sail out of Port Vila shortly and will do an overnighter to the southern most Vanuatuan island, Aneityum. We'll wait there for a weather

Posted: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 - 15:39

Moored in Port Vila, doing last minute provisioning, clearing out with Customs and Immigration etc. Our crew Jo and Anthony are on board, so all in all we are ready to begin our passage south to NZ

Posted: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 - 12:35

Anchored off Hideaway Island, not too far from Port Vila. Our good friends on Sel Citron are 'next door'. Must be the nearby local school's swimming lessons here in the bay as we can see and hear

Posted: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 - 14:36

Motored in to 'the big smoke' of Port Vila this morning - time to do some laundry, drop off a few bags of rubbish, buy some fresh fruit and veggies and access better internet. Caught a whopper of a

Posted: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 - 11:24

Still anchored off Lelepa Island, and at the minute listening to beautiful singing from the church choir as it carries across the water. Had a swim/snorkel earlier and were treated to a dugong mum

Posted: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 - 09:03

Moved to the southern tip of Lelepa Island, close to the village. Went ashore to have a look at the ENORmous limestone cave which forms part of this area's World Heritage listing together with nearby

Posted: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 - 16:50

Now anchored in 8m over white sand

Posted: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 - 08:59

We are leaving our happy kiteboarding grounds today heading for Havana harbour 10 miles downwind. Sadly we are saying goodbye to Bart and Lil from Tranquilo after breakfast . They are headed to the

Posted: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 - 09:59

We haven't moved very far in the last week as conditions have been excellent for kiting. The wind cranks up around 8am and then backs down around sunset, there's a perfect white sandy beach to launch

Posted: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 - 08:41

Anchored in very calm conditions off Nguna, Kakula and Pele Islands which are small islands to the north of Efate. These are also pretty volcanic islands, but extinct volcanoes, so phew, no ash fall

Posted: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 - 09:05

We arrived in Port Vila yesterday afternoon after a great overnight sail from Tanna. Huh, the ash that changed Kiapa from her pretty aqua colour to grey grey grey chased us away. We had to use

Posted: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 - 08:06

wow Wow WOW!! The active volcano, Mt Yasur, which we all come to see when anchored here at Tanna, is truly quite something. We had postponed heading to the summit to wait for 'perfect' weather

Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2016 - 09:09

Snugly anchored in Port Resolution Bay, Tanna Island for the last few days with our friends on Tranquilo, Speakeasy and Marilyn. We have been made to feel very welcome by the people in the nearby

Posted: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 - 15:06

Arrived safely yesterday and now happily anchored in the bay near Mystery Island, Aneityum, Vanuatu. It's lovely to see an island nearly totally covered in virgin forest! Went ashore to 'clear in'

Posted: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 - 08:12

The wind has backed right down and is now mostly from behind - even the spinny won't stay up, so we have just started motor-sailing. All very well on board.

Posted: Sat, 1 Oct 2016 - 08:33

This cat is lapping up the milk..... oh I mean miles ..... in purrrrrfect cruising conditions. Have covered 218 nm in the 24 hours since we left Fiji yesterday morning. Yesterday we lost a monster

Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2016 - 08:51

Farewell fabulous Fiji. Thank you for the AWESOME time we have had in your beautiful island nation. We have departed for Vanuatu.......

Posted: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 - 08:53

On a mooring at Port Denarau Marina getting all those last minute things done before heading west to Vanuatu. We plan to clear out by the weekend some time.

Posted: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 - 08:43

Boo hoo, it's our last morning at Musket. Had a great farewell potluck ashore last night - sad to say goodbye to so many great friends. Later today we will go to Denarau Marina and fill gas bottles

Posted: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 - 14:03

After a fabulous 5 days of Regatta activities we are happily anchored off one of our favourite islands, Namotu, searching for that elusive wave. Probably just as well there's not much surf - we need

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