P’zazz

14 M Shaun Arber Cat

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Posted: Thu, 24 May 2018 - 13:39

after spending 2 days up inside the lagoon on a couple of Motus with Taranoui and Surreal 2 nestled amongst bombies anchored off a beautiful beach which is privately owned . We swam , dived and

Posted: Sun, 20 May 2018 - 10:12

Raivavae is an example of how life used to be in the islands before tourism changed everything . The locals are friendly but not imposing themselves wanting anything and there is just nothing

Posted: Thu, 17 May 2018 - 20:48

we woke up to see Taranoui had arrived - had breakfast and came into the pass and moored off the jetty . The mountains in the background are breathtaking- soaring ridge peaks . Cleared customs and

Posted: Wed, 16 May 2018 - 18:33

after a day that started threatening then cleared into great sailing conditions then changed to rain squalls with gusts to 36 knots and sustained periods of 30 + as we approached Raivavae. Arrived

Posted: Wed, 16 May 2018 - 10:09

after a solid night which produced SE ( which would head us up to 30degrees at time)with wind 25-35 and 3 m seas interspersed with a few showers the day has lightened and sun broke through :) we

Posted: Tue, 15 May 2018 - 13:42

since changing over to tiller steering we have been making good progress doing 165 nm last 24 hours under deep reefed main and jib . Boat feels good and tiller is nice and light to steer with. We are

Posted: Mon, 14 May 2018 - 11:39

with just 400nm we were on the home run when the bearing in our steering wheel failed - we are continuing to Raivavae at this stage under emergency steering (tiller) while we try to locate a part

Posted: Sun, 13 May 2018 - 10:42

it seems each night is a repeat of the one before - starting at around 4 pm the wind lifts to 25-30 on and off for about 6 hours making a bouncy night then wind moderates during early hours but we

Posted: Sat, 12 May 2018 - 08:48

as per normal just before dark wind got up to 29 knots then stayed a solid 20-25 during the night before backing off slightly this morning.we are sailing hard on the wind trying desperately to still

Posted: Fri, 11 May 2018 - 09:51

yesterday was quite special having the 3 boats within 2 nm for quite some time . As the day progressed the wind freshened until just on dark we were getting gusts 25-30 and pretty bouncy seas . Put

Posted: Thu, 10 May 2018 - 10:21

good sailing yesterday but then wind built before dark so put a reef in and settled in for a bumpy night in 20-25 knots S holding a course of 90T to keep our East gains .we are now into the effects

Posted: Wed, 9 May 2018 - 11:15

after beautiful sailing conditions all day yesterday we go interrupted by a front just after dinner -25 knots and we are steaming along at 9-11 knots still holding our east course - however this was

Posted: Tue, 8 May 2018 - 09:00

since picking up the Southerly around midday yesterday we sailed with screecher making due east in 8-12 apparent dropping the screecher before bed and settling in under jib for the night during which

Posted: Mon, 7 May 2018 - 09:36

mmmm this is starting to feel like a long journey ! Wind y/day veered from light SE to light E - even worse ! We came within 12 nm of Surreal but I suspect Alan put the iron horse on and took off

Posted: Sun, 6 May 2018 - 13:15

sorry no update yesterday - had a fuel issue which was resolved with a good team effort .winds lightened off and we have been sailing low on our course hoping for the wind to swing S allowing us to

Posted: Sat, 5 May 2018 - 09:24

Friday afternoon provided the odd rainsquall with SE up to 30 knots but generally no more than 25. Reefed we trucked along at between 55-60 AWA - would be nice if we were running! Sea state 2-3 m

Posted: Fri, 4 May 2018 - 13:15

After motoring for 8 hours we picked up the SE breeze (10knts) that we hoped would propel us off the coast up to the back of the low that went through a few days earlier and is fairly slow

Posted: Wed, 2 May 2018 - 16:27

beautiful clear day - doing final packing of stores and getting crew aboard . Surreal 2 came down from Gulf Harbour and we will get cleared 9am tomorrow morning then get underway for our passage to

Posted: Tue, 1 May 2018 - 20:16

Waiting for the front to move further offshore before we leave first thing Thursday morning. Hope we don’t miss the back of the front

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