Mirabilis

Mirabilis is a 43ft steel Finot sloop owned by Mike and Danica Stent. Mirabilis joined the family in 2010. We spent ten years living aboard with the Marlborough Sounds as our main playground. We've done a few bigger trips to Rakiura, Tonga, Wallis & Futuna, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia. This season we are back on the water again and sailing with our two boys (Arlo and Coen) around the Fiji islands. Home port is Mana, NZ. Mirabilis is named after the nudibranch Jason mirabilis. Nudibranchs are rad.

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Posted: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 - 19:23

thought we would depart captain cooks departure bay and head sw to catherines cove in very gusty nw winds. as we came around the point we got hit with 48knots of wind which almost stopped us, turned

Posted: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 - 21:35

d'oh forgot the east on the position!!!! wind went west but in the sounds that means southwest and just as we were about to go to bed swell and wind hit us and made for a shit nights sleep so we

Posted: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 - 00:00

Sorry about the tech difficulties, internet, site and me having minor issues :( arrived puangiangi island in the rangitoto islands just east of d'urville. we circumnavigated the island

Posted: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 - 00:00

arrived camp bay just opposite catherine's cove on d'urville. gusty southerly winds so stayed in the shelter of this bay for two nights. trip out of the harbour was slow into the 30knots of southerly

Posted: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 - 00:00

left wellington for d'urville island at 9:30pm.

Posted: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 - 14:26

experienced new zealand's worst storm in fifty years on thursday night with a record of 80 knot winds through our marina. marina suffered a bit of damage and lots of work coming up for the canvas

Posted: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 - 00:00

good sailing through afternoon yesterday but dropped off overnight and was solely on motor from midnight. finally entered in through the heads of the bay of islands mid morning and greeted by a

Posted: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 - 00:00

strong winds and big seas early yesterday afternoon (including the odd wave washing right over the solar panels!). wind dropped back a bit to more comfortable strong breezes by evening but big seas

Posted: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 - 00:00

wind picked up early yesterday evening and seas followed suit, building steadily. southeasterlies and quite a lot of cloud. reefed down and reduced jib down too. preparing for the edge of the

Posted: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 - 00:00

wind dropped down around midnight to more gentle breezes, a bit of support
from the motor for a couple of hours this morning but still enough to sail
alright for the most part.

Posted: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 - 00:00

steady southeasterlies all day, good sailing. cloudy with moderate =96 slig=
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seas.

Posted: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 - 00:00

woo! wind, glorious wind. moderate breezes arrived with the sunrise and
slowly gaining a bit of strength and seas building, we are sailing once
more.

Posted: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 - 00:00

no wind, still on motor.

Posted: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 - 00:00

finally got some decent sailing yesterday evening but wind all but disappeared now so solely on motor, luckily the seas are flat. a lot of cloud hanging overhead this morning but starting to break

Posted: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 - 00:00

light variable winds. switching a lot between sailing and motorsailing for the last 24 hours. still beautiful calm seas and blue skies though so not altogether unpleasant. able to have showers on

Posted: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 - 00:00

wind picked up again yesterday evening so were able to sail through most of
the night but dropped again in the wee hours so back to motorsailing.

Posted: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 - 00:00

wind dropped to light-gentle breezes so switched to motorsailing after
breakfast. blue skies and flat seas.

Posted: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 - 00:00

cleared customs this morning and said goodbye to suva around midday with on verra close behind us. now on our final blue water passage headed for opua in the bay of islands marking the end of our

Posted: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 - 00:00

arrived in suva to hang out, resupply and wait for a weather window for the
journey back to nz.

Posted: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 - 00:00

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