Malakite

Malakite is a 2010 Leopard 46. She was sailed from South Africa across the Atlantic through the Panama Canal and across the Pacific to Australia by her original owners. We Purchased her in November 2012 and sailed her back to New Zealand in December 2012.

Posted: Fri, 17 May 2019 - 18:45

Moroccan chicken for dinner tonight served on rice with beans, yum yum. Great sailing today, making great progress.
Karl's quote of the day "We should survive" the power of positive thinking!

Posted: Fri, 17 May 2019 - 08:42

With the wind ranging between 15 and 30 knots, it made for an interesting night at sea, dodging the rain showers that show up on the radar. Rod just made the comment that all is good, we are afloat

Posted: Thu, 16 May 2019 - 17:18

Glen and Rod departed Auckland on Monday afternoon at 5.30pm after waiting for the wind to drop, we sailed through the night and arrived in Opua at 1.15pm on Tuesday afternoon. Jillian left Auckland

Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 - 12:09

We arrive in Opua yesterday afternoon at 4.30pm, just in time to clear customs before they finished for the day. It was a very very good passage. It is hard to believe we're the last 5 months have

Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 - 12:09

We arrive in Opua yesterday afternoon at 4.30pm, just in time to clear customs before they finished for the day. It was a very very good passage. It is hard to believe we're the last 5 months have

Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 - 07:33

We have North Cape 25nm to our west and with 64nm to run to Opua, we will arrive into Opua mid - late afternoon. We have had some great sailing in the last 24 hours, covering almost 180nm. Currently

Posted: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 - 07:45

243nm to Opua, we should arrive in Opua about mid night on Wednesday. We had 12-20 knots of wind overnight from the SSW so we are hard on the wind bouncing our way along. The wind is forecast to

Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 - 08:27

We are over half way with 395 mn to Opua. Last night we had 15-25 knots with gusts to 30 knots from behind us, a little lumpy at times, the wind has reduced to 15-20 knots beautiful sailing

Posted: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 - 08:12

We are making good progress with 570nm to Opua, motor sailing with 8 knots of wind, the sea has level off even more, yesterday we had a beautiful day day with, clear blue sky. This morning we have

Posted: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 - 07:57

We have sailed 160nm since leaving Noumea almost 23 hours ago and have another 736nm to Opua. The wind. eased this morning and we how have 15 knots from the east, the sea state has also eased making

Posted: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 - 13:06

We refuelled and departed the fuel dock in Noumea at 7.30 am, bound for Opua, sailing south in 20 knots of wind on the noise, the wind is forecast to drop in the next 24 hours and slowly go around to

Posted: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 - 23:18

Tomorrow Friday 20th October we leave New Caledonia, Jillian flies home at 8.00 am and Malakite departs with Glen, David and Martin on board. David crewed up to Tonga with Glen and Martin is a friend

Posted: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 - 19:15

New Caledonia is a really beautiful place to finish our journey of the South Pacific. We have been to some truely beautiful anchorages, including the Isle de Pins where we are currently.

Posted: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 - 18:03

We left Port Vila yesterday and are now at anchor at Lifou in The Loyalties, New Caledonia. Looking forward to some yummy French bread while we are here.

Posted: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 - 17:39

Espiritu Santo has been our cruising ground for almost 3 weeks now. We have really enjoyed the things on offer to do here. We went half way up the east coast up as far as a place called Port Olry. We

Posted: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 - 13:12

We have been in Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu for a week now. This is the largest island in Vanuatu. There is a direct flight into Santo from Brisbane, so there are a lot of Australian's either living here

Posted: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 - 09:09

Good morning Vanuatu. We have had 4 nights of swells up to 3 metres to get into Luganville, which is on the island of Espiritu Santo. There has been a constant cloud cover on our passage, so didn't

Posted: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 - 09:57

We have 81nm to go to the Selwyn Strait between Ambrym and Ile Pentecost and 147nm to our destination Luganville on Espiritu Santo. The wind dropped away in the night and we rolled in the code zero

Posted: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 - 08:24

We have covered 285nm since departing Fiji and have 317nm to Espiritu Santo, saw two boats last night, it looked like they were fishing, one of them was covered with lights.

Posted: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 - 08:00

Good morning, we are making good progress with Musket Cove 119nm behind us in 18 hours, 473 mn to Espiritu Santo, all well on board.

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