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: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 - 10:39

The passage from Vanuatu so far has been really good. I went to bed at 1am with about 10 knots of wind and slight seas. The start of the 4am shift was glassy seas and hardly a breathe of wind. It is

Posted: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 - 15:04

We dropped the mooring in Port Vila at 1.45pm local time. Next stop Lifou, New Caledonia. Should take approx 36 hours. 2 sleeps not the 1 sleep I was promised.

Posted: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 - 15:22

After spending one night in Port Vila we decided that was enough and headed out and into Havana Harbour. This is a large harbour with the mainland on one side and two islands on the other side. Quite

Posted: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 - 10:08

We have been in Vanuatu for a week now. We have just picked up a mooring in Port Vila and the time is 6.50am. We have travelled through the night to be as we need to clear immigration!! When we

Posted: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 - 12:32

We have arrived and put the anchor down in Aneityum, Analgawat Bay, Anatom. This is a very quiet peaceful looking village. The village is putting on a feast for us tomorrow, which sounds really nice

Posted: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 - 12:34

145nm to Anatom, Vanuatu. Water, water everywhere. The sun is shining today which is very pleasant. We have been motor sailing for a while then sailing then back to motor sailing. The winds are very

Posted: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 - 12:49

306 nm to Amatom, Vanautu sailing in lumpy seas in 18-20 knots, cloudy with showers today, very heavy rain last night. All well on board.

Posted: Fri, 7 Aug 2015 - 15:08

We have just gone through the Malolo Passage. On the horizon along way off is Vanuatu.

Posted: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 - 08:53

We have been in Musket Cove now since last Thursday. Our departure date was postponed from Saturday 1st August until Monday 3rd August. We are now on standby to leave Friday 7th. There is some

Posted: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 - 09:00

We had a lot of wind around the Yasawa's and were on a schedule to get our guests Pete and Deb back to Musket Cove by Sunday. We left Nanuya and started to make our way to the southern Islands in the

Posted: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 - 21:48

On Tuesday 14th July we left Nananu-I-Cake, and motor sailed around the northern coast of Viti Levu arriving in Musket Cove on Wednesday afternoon. Musket Cove has a new Trader store, boutique and

Posted: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 - 22:16

We have spent a bit of time at Makogai. This is an island approx 48nm from Savusavu. The island was once a leper hospital. There is still all the remains of the concrete buildings that housed all

Posted: Sat, 11 Jul 2015 - 10:12

Jillian dropped Luke and Anton at the Nadi airport and picked up Tania and Owen, returning to Volivoli after midnight after leaving at 4.30pm, over a 3 hour drive each way. Please note there have

Posted: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 - 17:44

Posted: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 - 08:19

We arrived in Savusavu on Wednesday last week to pick up Kristy and Stefan on Friday. On our way from Bavartu Harbour we went via Qamea Island. To get onto this island we had to enter through a reef

Posted: Sun, 21 Jun 2015 - 19:41

Well since our last blog we have not left the beautiful island of Vanua Balavu. We had the opportunity to follow the rest of the rally when they left here early on Tuesday morning. The weather was

Posted: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 - 19:05

The island of Vanua Balavu is stunning. This is the island that we arrived at fromTonga. The village of LomoLomo was our clearance port. Immigration couldn't get to clear all the boats on our first

Posted: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 - 14:15

At anchor in a place called LomoLomo. A very quaint looking village is here but we can't get of the boat until all our clearances are processed. We have passed with flying colours the Bio security

Posted: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 - 12:58

At anchor at Lomolomo, Fiji, waiting for customs, immigration.

Posted: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 - 13:03

We are over half way to Fiji. Whoever said it would be a fair weather passage needs clarification on that terminology!! Yesterday mid day Glen got a marlin on one of his rods. It was a black one

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