Savanna Safari

Savanna Safari is based in Auckland, New Zealand, and heading north to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia in 2017. Daren, Kirstine and friendly crew for the the crossing up to Tonga.
Savanna Safari is a 38ft Maxim 380 Catamaran, designed by Alex Simonis, and built in South Africa in 2002. Savanna Safari is hull #21 of around 50 Maxim 380's that were built.

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Posted: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 - 08:21

All cleared in at Marsden Cove marina. Easy peasy. Followed by pizza and an early night.

On the 'road' again, heading for Gulf Harbour.

Posted: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 - 09:08

We're off Sandy Bay, north of Tutukaka. Had some great Spinnaker sailing again last night. Wind was pretty steady. We needed to gybe sometime in the night, which is usually straight forward

Posted: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 - 20:50

Pleasant sailing down the coast today with Spinnaker back up once the wind filled in. Currently off cape Karikari, heading for Marsden Cove, Whangerei to clear customs, immigration etc. Hopefully

Posted: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 - 09:30

I've just added a small tot of French rum to my morning coffee and raised my mug to the southern horizon. Land Ahoy, and a toast to home! We can see Cape Reinga and North Cape emerging from the low

Posted: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 - 21:00

Sunday evening, night 6. Still chipping away at the miles, with lighter wind today. Was sunny, and almost warm. Great sailing with Spinnaker up all day, until after dinner when the wind swung right

Posted: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 - 09:45

Good morning, how's Sunday going? All good here. Bit of a mixed bag last night. Rain and wind built up to it's peak for Kirstines 11-1am watch. I got woken up by the noise (always sleeping with one

Posted: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 - 20:45

Night #5. I had to count that on my fingers to figure it out.. it all turns into a bit of a blur after a few days. We had a good days sailing with the spinnaker. The wind kept picking up, and

Posted: Sat, 7 Oct 2017 - 09:39

A bit late on the update this morning due to sail changes. With the main and screacher, we couldn't run far enough down wind, and still maintain good speed, so we've switch to just the Spinnaker as

Posted: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 - 21:12

Night 4 started with a giant full red moon rising out to Port. It also started with the old Port engine squealing when I started it to warm some water. One of the belts is slipping, and I notice the

Posted: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 - 09:06

Good morning. Another lovely sunny morning. A little bit cooler.. temp in cabin is 19C.. about the same as the sea temp. A few more birds around, mostly flying away from the island, perhaps out for

Posted: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 - 21:00

Sun's down, moon's up and we're motor sailing at 5kn, making our way south on a relatively calm sea. Not quite on course for Norfolk due to SE head winds, but making good progress nonetheless.

Posted: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 - 09:30

Hello everyone! We've got a sunny morning with 10-15kn ESE wind and the sea state is good... Still long period 2m S swell, and small wind chop.. but not quite enough wind to build the chop into

Posted: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 - 20:54

Settling in for night #2. Wind and sea state has eased making for a much more comfortable days sailing. The log shows we did 145nm 24hr run (midday to midday) and have averaged 6kn, with a high of

Posted: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 - 09:12

Good morning. Wind has eased over the last 6hrs down to 15 -20kn, and along with that the sea state has eased a bit too. Still running with double reefed mainsail, and well reefed headsail, but

Posted: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 - 20:24

Settling in for night watches - Daren 7-9, Barry 9-11, Kirstine 11-1 etc on 2 hr shifts. Roast chicken and coleslaw for dinner while our plates try to jump off the table. Still quite bumpy, with wind

Posted: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 - 12:57

On our way back to NZ. Just left New Caledonia via Dumbea pass. Quite bumpy with wind on the nose at 50 degrees, 25 to 30kn+ Forcast is for wind to ease overnight. Heading for Norfolk island to get a

Posted: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 - 21:24

We're safely in the pass, but couldn't get to Noumea due to headwinds and strong tides. We'll continue tomorrow morning. We're looking forward to a full night's sleep after 5 nights at sea doing 2

Posted: Sat, 9 Sep 2017 - 07:15

We're close! We're outside havanna pass waiting for favourable conditions to enter. A spring incoming tide with SW wind against it could make it quite bumpy. There's also the tsunami warning to

Posted: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 - 18:12

Land ahoy as we passed south of Ile Mare of the loyalty islands. 54nm to go to the havanna pass. Aiming to arrive at first light to time the tide and the 40nm around to Noumea. Quiet, warm, lazy day

Posted: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 - 08:33

A pleasant night sailing with light winds. Wind is light and has swung a bit more behind us, so we took down the main sail in the night. It was blanketing the screacher, flopping aound and not being

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