Patea

14m 2009 Beneteau First 45

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Posted: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 - 05:04

Home!! Sorry, we've had a hectic 48 hours doing formalities and covid tests and trying to organise repairs and trying to keep a 6 year old happy who's desperate, like completely desperate to get

Posted: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 - 06:36

Almost.... there.....

Posted: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 - 12:06

Ah me and my optimism!! I've a strong preference for it over pessimism, but sheesh does it suck when you get it wrong! The expected heading wind arrived about 12 hours earlier than forecast, so since

Posted: Wed, 11 Nov 2020 - 06:42

As expected, the wind has headed us, but earlier and a little stronger than we had hoped... We're still going!!

Posted: Tue, 10 Nov 2020 - 14:27

Kia ora katou, wonderful people! So, yesterdays plan was to hook into the northern side of the low ripping over the North Island right now,and smoke our wake home in 30 plus knots of beam reaching

Posted: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 - 13:24

Hello the world! Thanks all for sending through the news on Biden v the Orangutan - tis great news indeed! And sorry to any orang-utans that took offence to that comment - I'm sure you are much

Posted: Sun, 8 Nov 2020 - 19:03

Hello you lovely people! We've been blessed with stellar winds and flat water over the last 18 hours, and have managed to turn 30 degrees to port and aim straight at Opua, which is a good feeling

Posted: Sat, 7 Nov 2020 - 18:45

Kia ora lovely people! The sun is shining, and we've had our first proper blue sky day today since like ages, and with the very, very light wind, its made for quite relaxing sleeping and sailing

Posted: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 - 13:03

The heady days of fast broad reaching and dizzyingly high daily averages that we have enjoyed over the last week appear to be over, as the wind backed further and dropped over night. We had hoped for

Posted: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 - 19:00

Just a quick update as we have had a busy day trying to fix things (thanks for the suggestions Max), and jump over international datelines and bake cakes and design tree houses and stuff. Wind has

Posted: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 - 12:33

End of week 1, woop woop! Aaaaand at about 5am this morning, we passed our approximate geographic midpoint, being 1076nm from Maupiti, where we departed, and 1076nm from Opua, where we intend on

Posted: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 - 12:12

Kia ora all! Patea is doing well - we collectively decided that hand steering isn't too onerous, and especially Selma has come leaps and bounds, and is now providing a perfectly steady (and not

Posted: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 - 12:45

To our great enjoyment, after two days of intense rain that has soaked every crevice and crack on Patea, the sun finally arose this morning, and the sky has returned to its typical tropical hues

Posted: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 - 13:45

Well crikey, what an afternoon we had yesterday! You've heard the gist from Asher and Dani, but we had sustained 35-40, with gusts to 48 knots for about 6 hours, and more torrential sustained rain

Posted: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 - 12:45

Well we certainly managed to find the expected hole in the wind. As of last night at 9pm the engine came on and we started slow-motoring, and it has only stopped for a brief 45 minutes since then

Posted: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 - 12:12

The first 24 hours complete, and we have calm seas and light winds, perfect for us to slice through as we make progress across the trough of low pressure that stands between us and the SE trade

Posted: Thu, 29 Oct 2020 - 02:14

After a quick swim, were heading off! We'll have fresh conditions and fast sailing to start with, which may be a challenge for finding our sea legs, but after 36 hours blasting WSW we'll hit the SE

Posted: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 - 18:09

Ah ha, finally the day has come! After several glorious weeks of magnificent holiday weather, mirror like seas and light winds, the breeze certainly has arrived over the last 24 hours! Originally due

Posted: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 - 06:24

Maupiti! And we're here for another 18 hours, as we wait for the low pressure system to pass and the weather to settle, an, hopefully, heading of in 18 hours - fingers crossed! Oh, and did I mention

Posted: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 - 14:55

The day and night were breathless, the sea like a mirror, so we cruised to the outer atoll at Bora Bora, and stayed here an extra night - not too bad;)

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