Roxi

roxi is a swan 38 launched in 1975. we are halfway through a circumnavigation and are currently being happily distracted by what nz has to offer.

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Posted: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 - 22:27

anchored at ile grimault after a 50nm beat outside the reef in 25kn and short lumpy seas. hard going, but all ok - until one of our stanchions snapped in half. will use the table leg to fix it

Posted: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 - 16:14

voh been trying to get united with a package of spares to make a few repairs - yesterday we had confirmation that it had been delivered to a coffee museum in voh. leaving koumac we beat in 25kn se

Posted: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 - 00:00

dugong to starboard whilst navigating the tight channel to baie de chasseloup in 30kn wind we were distracted by a brown shape - huge turtle was the first thought - but not oval - shark is my next

Posted: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 - 17:48

in koumac marina - cave trip we're in the marina at at koumac=2c and had been told that a network of cav= es nearby are a 'must see'. we put new batteries in our torches and were given a lift out

Posted: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 - 20:42

hienghene river =0a= =0a= =0a= firstly when i found pc=2c prior to running him over - can you believe i we= nt right over the top of it - i don't look that mean in this photo - just g= oes to show

Posted: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 - 00:00

koumac marina - time to hit the laundry - load after load - feels pretty good, but slightly novel!

Posted: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 - 00:00

left ile tanle in a light breeze for a 17nm sail, turned into a 27nm beat in 25-30kn as we struggled to avoid the reefs and make the next anchorage in the rising wind and short choppy seas. a little

Posted: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 - 00:00

too gusty to stay in baie de croissant for more than a coffee, was a very pretty view for the short time we spent there. then onto tuck behind pointe de bouerabate, very well sheltered in the

Posted: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 - 00:00

the festival at poum was fairly small, we searched for a stall selling carvings whilst listening to the live music - although we could have done that on roxi from a distant anchorage as volume seems

Posted: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 - 20:12

now anchored in poum, a tiny town that has a festival this weekend - perfect timing. today we went as far north as we will on this trip to the tropics, it's south down the west coast now to noumea

Posted: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 - 20:53

anchored in boat pass. think access to the west coast through this shortcut is just for the local boats, but will check it out by dinghy and see if we can venture through on roxi in a few days -

Posted: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 - 16:13

baie de pam on the ne coast still, we can see the top of grand terre - and once we round that the beat south begins. the towering lush mountains laced with white ribbons of waterfalls have been

Posted: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 - 16:13

pouebo, access to the village is up the river, side tracked by the choice of tributaries we explored the mangrove area by dinghy, the more we looked at those trees the more incredible we thought they

Posted: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 - 00:00

balade, arrived in total calm and paddleboarded to the sandy islet to see the monument to huon de kermadec who died in 1793 and was the first european to be buried in new caledonia. previously, in

Posted: Sat, 5 Oct 2013 - 15:48

still heading north on new caledonia's east cost. having just enjoyed our first soursop fruit we cannot understand why we've spent so long in the tropics and not discovered them before. we ate it at

Posted: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 - 12:19

citizen science - plankton we were sent this link and think it sounds like a good project for cruisers to assist with. dr richard kirby is a plankton biologist at plymouth university and project

Posted: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 - 11:58

touho as our problems in london are not yet resolved - there are worse places to be procrastinating. yesterday we even watched the dugong for around an hour as it surfaced, then disappeared to feed

Posted: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 - 15:46

still here in touho. now the long weekend is over we have access to great internet at some point each day allowing us to deal with the problem with the collapsed ceiling in our london flat. luckily

Posted: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 - 18:29

in the town of touho, it's been rainy and overcast for several days so no snorkeling yet - on the plus side the water tanks are full. tried trolling on way here as food supplies low - nothing, until

Posted: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 - 08:40

anchored in baie de ugue after motor-sailing north along the east coast writing this listening to the exhalation of a few dolphins as they hunt for their breakfast around us; reminds me of catching

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