MOONFISH

Moonfish was built in Kerikeri in 2010. Owners Mike and Sasha purchased Moonfish in Dec 2014, and sailed her up to the South Pacific in 2016 for their first taste of cruiser life. Join the SV MOONFISH adventure here, on Instagram and on Facebook. 2018 is gonna be epic! Contact us at svmoonfish @ gmail. com (just remove all the spaces in the email address as this reduces spam emails)

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Posted: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 - 15:22

We’ll we are off! Just cleared customs, thanks Daniel! And we just watched Sharpe Focus motor past while we sit at the fuel dock here at Westhaven Marina. Thanks Mal-I-Bu for dropping by to say

Posted: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 - 15:30

The trials and tribulations of boat ownership is a hard earned badge of honour... or stupidity (Sasha is still trying to work out which one it is). Here we sit, in our marina berth the day after

Posted: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 - 12:12

Sat phone connection test 2

Posted: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 - 10:18

Our first YIT test update went through like a charm, that was testing our onsatmail account was set up and working (job done, cross that off the list). Now we are testing our Satellite phone

Posted: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 - 10:18

mmmm Sat phone YIT update didn?t seem to go through - testing again using internet connection.

Posted: Tue, 29 May 2018 - 19:30

Testing! Testing! Is this thing on? That is right you lucky 15 subscribers (and any randoms secretly following MOONFISH that we do not know about) it is that time of year again when we get ready

Posted: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 - 16:54

Whoops! I didn?t update our lat and long, so here is our position now. well, we are home! We had a great last bit of passage, with Silveray coming to visit us at the entrance to the harbour. Thanks

Posted: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 - 16:54

well, we are home! We had a great last bit of passage, with Silveray coming to visit us at the entrance to the harbour. Thanks guys, it was great to see you with full sails up as we motor sailed

Posted: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 - 17:27

Hello Folks, apologies on not sending through a YIT update this morning, we have had a very exciting day of sailing today! Today started (for Sasha) at 2:56am when she finally awoke 4 minutes before

Posted: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 - 18:09

Today Mike said he had had the best sail of his life! Now that?s something! The boys popped the screecher up this morning, and we made excellent pace all day long, with the boys taking turns to see

Posted: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 - 12:27

Had a great nights sailing, sitting around 9 and 10 knots, it was good to get some miles done. Nothing eventful again last night, this morning Mike found a flying fish on the nets, so he threw it at

Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 - 18:27

Going better now that we have more wind. Mike made brunch this morning, fried eggs on top of Sasha?s kibbled wheat toast with baked beans, it was just what the crew needed. Tim-o-tei is in the

Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 - 12:57

Apologies for the delay in this mornings YIT update folks, Sasha had a lovely sleep in again, as Tim-o-tei got up around 6:30am and took over Sasha?s shift which was suppose to finish at 7am.

Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 - 17:24

Slow progress today, the wind has picked up but attempting to sail the rhumb line is proving difficult, so we have tacked a couple of times today. We had thought we might stop by Minerva, but due to

Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 - 09:27

A slow motoring night last night, not a breath of wind. Tim-otei started shifts this time 6pm to 9pm, then Sasha did her one shift of the night 9pm to 12midnight, then Miwa did graveyard shift till

Posted: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 - 18:12

Coming to you live with another uneventful day out at sea! Yes that?s right folks SV MOONFISH has NOTHING to report? apart from the fact that the forecast was right when it said light winds? we have

Posted: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 - 10:39

Those of you with attention to detail will have realised the last heading we posted wasn?t correct, Sasha forgot to update it. An uneventful nights sailing, pleasant conditions out here and an

Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 - 17:51

Well, we are off. Tumeric Chicken Stew for dinner, it?s on the hob re-heating now. We only have 50mins on our Satellite phone so we will be keeping these YIT updates relatively short this time

Posted: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 - 12:10

Alrighty, shall we try that again? We have completed a very quick and FREE outward clearance at Denarau, and we are now on our way home to New Zealand. Our estimated date of arrival will be around

Posted: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 - 17:16

So, we're back in Fiji.... we got out about 10 nautical miles in rough 3-5 metre swell, a top wind speed of 30 knots was recorded by ShapeShifter the other yacht that cleared out with us at Vuda

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