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.

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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.

Posted: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 - 13:39

We have picked up the anchor in Musket Cove and are heading out of the reef towards Espírito Santo, Vanuatu. This is a distance of 600nm away, in a straight line!! We should be there by Tuesday. We

Posted: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 - 18:18

We are back on board Malakite in Musket Cove, Fiji after having a week at home. Glen had some urgent business to attend to so hence our trip to Auckland. We are in Fiji until Friday the 11th then

Posted: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 - 19:36

We are at Kadavu which is a large island due south of Suva. We have had Luke and Aimee fly into here from Nadi for a week and John just flew in here on Sunday for a week. We had a really good week

Posted: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 - 08:03

We visited the Bavatu Yacht Club that had some damage to it from cyclone Winston. We were here two years ago and can't quiet believe how that much wind and water damage could happen when it is so

Posted: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 - 16:36

Our first full day in Fiji it poured with rain. It was nice though topping up our water tanks with some nice fresh rain water. The village at Daliconi were very generous, putting on a great feast for

Posted: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 - 16:42

Bula from Daliconi Village in the beautiful Vanua Balavu, Fiji. It is a bit drizzly though!! We dropped the anchor at 3.30pm after two and a bit days of sailing. We had up to 25 knots of wind and 3

Posted: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 - 08:36

Left Vava'u early afternoon yesterday for Vanua Balavu, Fiji we had the wind directly on the stern if we heading straight for Vanua Balavu so we took a more northerly course, changed course this

Posted: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 - 16:54

Today has been a day of last minute provisioning for the next 3+ weeks. We have done our customs clearance this morning and are waiting to fuel up with duty free diesel. There are 32 boats all

Posted: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 - 16:22

At Anchor at Nuapapu Island looking out to Alinonga Island, see Photo.

Posted: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 - 07:45

We had a great sail most of the way from Pangai, in the Ha'apai's , to Neiafu in Vava'u. We motored the last hour and a half as the wind died. Picked up a mooring in Neiafu Harbour at 7.00pm and went

Posted: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 - 06:21

We arrived at Pangai early yesterday morning, cleared customs just before midday and then picked up Jillian and Angela off the wharf in Pangai Harbour, we then did our local clearance out of Pangai

Posted: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 - 09:18

Position corrected, lasted report showed yesterday's position.

Posted: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 - 09:00

Caught another Mahimahi yesterday, this time on a lure made from a tooth paste tube, it shows you don't need to spend money on fancy lures. Having a great sail this morning, some of the best sailing

Posted: Sun, 4 Jun 2017 - 08:36

Shortly after leaving South Minerva Reef we had a double strike of yellow fin tuna, we managed to land one but lost the larger one at the boat. Had an uneventful night no boats showing on the AIS or

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