Mirabilis

Mirabilis is a 43ft steel Finot sloop owned by Mike and Danica Stent. We have been living aboard since 2010 and were recently joined by a new crew member, Arlo. We have had one cruising season in Polynesia and are now making the most of maternity leave cruising in Melanesia for the 2019 season. Home base is Wellington, NZ. Mirabilis is named after the nudibranch Jason mirabilis. Nudibranchs are rad.

Recent Updates

Posted: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 - 21:40

Beautiful day for sailing today. We had planned on just a day sail but the going was too good so we are pushing on. Will pull in at Southwest of Malakula tonight and await the promised northerly to

Posted: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 - 09:49

HOMEWARD BOUND!!! We are heading home at long last. It's just that home is a bloody long way away. Stopped here for the night, very calm non rolling Anchorage even in a decent se blow. Just

Posted: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 - 20:33

We've arrived at pretty much or northern most point of the trip. We were meant to head across past the Amabe volcano ( ACTIVE ) but it would have been a night sail in a strongish southerly with a sw

Posted: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 - 14:55

Sailing Vanuatu is continuous shifting baselines of my definition of paradise. We are now on the east coast of Santo Island tucked in between two islets inside a reef happily sheltered from the

Posted: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 - 13:00

Well that was a rather interesting sail up the coast. Total downwind sailing with the boat hitting 9knts with the help of a wave! We were constantly surfing between 7.5 and 8.5 knts, while I was

Posted: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 - 19:12

Almost decided to continue on to Santo yesterday and arrive in the dark but decided against it and instead Anchor behind this little island to get out of the building wind and waves. A bit of a roll

Posted: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 - 21:15

Lovely day sail to Banam Bay on the east coast of Malekula Island today. Just a short pitstop as we continue to push north tomorrow. It's Mike's birthday tomorrow so by god we better have good

Posted: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 - 17:25

Don’t listen to anyone who says to skip Lamen Bay! This bay is the ultimate turtle experience. The bay is full of large turtles feeding on the seagrass. We were not lucky enough to snorkel with the

Posted: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 - 17:14

LOTS of nudis! Revolieu Bay for the win! We tucked in inside the reef in this beautiful bay and met the lovely people of the yachts Pilgrim and Kupere (both YITster boats). We introduced our selves

Posted: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 - 16:42

Moved here, my God it's hot today

Posted: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 - 06:00

Nudibranchs! I saw my first nudi of the season while snorkelling at Sulua Bay, Emae Island. Emae was a delightful unscheduled stop. Nudis alone would have done it for me of course but this spot had

Posted: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 - 21:12

It took us a little longer to get to the turtles and duegongs so we stopped on the way and had a little stroll along the beach. All three of us jumped on the paddle board and paddled ashore and even

Posted: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 - 21:48

After a miserable two days of rain we moved into the marina to get the nappies, water and power sorted. We now have full power, full water and clean nappies except one, which was quite spectacular

Posted: Sat, 3 Aug 2019 - 13:06

Back out at Hideaway Island. Went to the fire show last night with Paddy and Anna. Was a great show and this time viewed from shore with Arlo enjoying the beginning and end with a little snooze

Posted: Fri, 2 Aug 2019 - 09:09

We spent a cool couple of days back around Havannah harbour. We went to an Independence day celebration with local live music, snorkeled a ww2 plane wreck that non of the cruisers seem to know about

Posted: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 - 19:12