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.

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Posted: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 - 16:57

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Posted: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 - 10:25

Great day out with family racing in the Evans Bay Yacht Cruiser Division.

Posted: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 - 11:09

Feeling good to have our home home again. Just tied up back in Chaffers after a 36 hour trip from Akaroa, 24 hours of which was under sail (a nice change from our trip south). The trip was relatively

Posted: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 - 18:34

Heading home.

Posted: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 - 07:45

Arrived entrance to Akaroa harbor after a very quick ( for us ) passage where for times we maintaining 8.5 to 9.5 knots and 7.5 to 8.5 most of the time. It looks like we will depart here late Monday

Posted: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 - 09:18

Departed Dunedin for Lyttelton on the tail end of storm force winds and have now been experiencing our more normal gale winds we are so accustomed to. We even hit 11.9 knots. Not bad but it was down

Posted: Wed, 9 Mar 2016 - 13:19

Berthed in the heart of Dunedin. Fantastic coming into NZ cities via yacht, although trip up harbour was mental with 35 knot winds and waves breaking over the deck!! Coolest old buildings and train

Posted: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 - 07:03

We left the very beautiful Stewart Island behind us at 6pm last night from Lord's River sailing out of our nice protected anchorage straight into very rough and high seas with up to 44 knot winds. It

Posted: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 - 10:25

We spent two more days at Evening Cove. Monday saw a could southwest wind come through but we were not deterred by that, nor the hail that fell on us on the dinghy ride to the start of the track to

Posted: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 - 16:28

Thursday morning the wind died down temporarily so we took the opportunity to head down into the south arm of Pegasus. We have secured ourselves in a great all weather anchorage up in Evening Cove

Posted: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 - 18:12

After a luxurious deep sleep we wake up in Port Pegasus and discover just how close we are to some uncharted rocks. We decide to move deeper in to the cruising guide recommended anchorage and stern

Posted: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 - 18:12

We're off, Port Pegasus here we come! It looks a bit breezy but sure, we'll be right. Let's make a nice cooked breakfast to eat on the way. Um...Dani, what were we thinking?! We left our lovely snug

Posted: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 - 16:50

We finally broke our Stewart Island marine mammal drought and spotted a couple dozen or so fur seals sunning themselves on the rocks on the way in to Port Adventure where we arrived to the equally

Posted: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 - 10:57

After our morning treat of watching kiwi on the beach at Little Glory, we spent a wonderful final wet and wild day with our guests exploring Prices Inlet and Kaipipi Bay by kayak, dinghy and foot

Posted: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 - 10:57

After Prices Inlet we moseyed on back to Golden Bay ready for our guests to disembark in the morning to catch the ferry back across the Strait. We took shelter in the lee of Iona Island to try and

Posted: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 - 08:31

Snorkelled in the morning at Ulva Island with loads of lovely jellyfish which far from fazed mum as I was watching her to see if she was going to freak, but no...instead she planted her hand right

Posted: Wed, 17 Feb 2016 - 11:43

Sitting in Golden Bay with internet again and at very long last with our new outboard on board having arrived two weeks after we first expected it. We have spent the last few days exploring Ulva

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