SCOOTS

Scoots is an Able Apogee 50 designed by Chuck Paine the Crew is Vandy and Eric

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Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 - 10:41

With SCOOTS tucked into a slip in the Bay of Islands Marina, Eric and I enjoyed the opportunity to sleep all night, though Eric woke up for a little while during his usual watch time, and I dreamed

Posted: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 - 21:39

Making great time toward Opua in lovely conditions. Blue skies with no clouds except for a Long White Cloud over NZ.

Posted: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 - 21:39

We arrived at Opua today at 3:15pm...9 days, 3 hours after leaving Fiji. We motorsailed for our last night, cruising along over smooth seas at 8-9 knots, making great time. Our friends, Annie & Liam

Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 - 13:33

In the home stretch! The wind and seas have calmed, and we are able to head straight for the entrance of the Bay of Islands, where we hope to arrive tomorrow afternoon or evening (my fingers are

Posted: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 - 14:27

Fewer than 300 miles to Opua, hoping to get there in under three days. We're still tacking back toward NZ, making pretty good progress. As of today, the seas and wind have diminished enough for the

Posted: Sun, 24 Nov 2019 - 12:36

We reached our farthest point west 28 12S/171-12E midday yesterday, where we tacked (now on a stbd tack) and began heading what we hoped would be SE. What we were able to make, with the wind and sea

Posted: Sat, 23 Nov 2019 - 13:27

We've just tacked, and started heading back toward New Zealand. Now we get to live on the other slant for awhile. We're hoping to arrive in Opua on Tuesday 26 Nov (this is probably overly optimistic)

Posted: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 - 13:33

As of yesterday, we've entered the squash zone portion of our trip. The wind and seas have risen, but SCOOTS is set up nicely with her staysail and reefed main (double reefed last night), and our

Posted: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 - 14:21

Today we begin what looks to be the windy/wavey middle portion of our passage. We've enjoyed three days of absolutely superb sailing so far. We're still heading more west than we'd like, with the

Posted: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 - 14:21

We're enjoying another day of lovely South Pacific sailing weather. We've been keeping SCOOTS on a tight reach for the past two days to get as far south as we can, before eventually heading more to

Posted: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 - 13:18

Getting our sea legs after our first night at sea. Leaving Navula Pass we had plenty of wind 15-20kn and choppy 1m seas, but these calmed down to 12kn and <1m seas for a pleasant night. This morning we awoke to nearly-flat seas and no wind. There is plenty of wind in our future. Miles gone 146. Miles to Opua 912. A small private jet just circled us three times before flying away toward Fiji.

Posted: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 - 10:06

Still enjoying Denarau. We're now looking at a Monday departure for Opua.

Posted: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 - 06:00

Enjoying our time at Denarau while we await good weather for sailing to NZ.

Posted: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 - 06:12

All well on board. Watching the sun rise over the southern coast of Vanua Levu with a parade of several other boats who have also planned their arrival for daylight. The Savusavu Customs officials

Posted: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 - 12:45

All well on board. This morning is sunny and warm, as SCOOTS just passed between Totoya and Matuku Islands and is about to pass to the west of Moala Island. After our first night, which was bumpy

Posted: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 - 12:51

All well on board. Not a particularly comfortable night, though the weather was spectacular. On a close reach into 15 knots with waves on the beam plus others from different directions, just to add

Posted: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 - 07:12

All well on board. There are now 9 boats anchored in N Minerva: SCOOTS, Rewa, Gone With the Wind, Persuasion, Muscat, Cetacea, Avalon, Aka, Where II. After a lovely, sunny day yesterday with calm

Posted: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 - 07:18

All well on board. We arrived at the entrance to N Minerva Reef at 4pm local time and had the anchor down about 20 minutes later. Gone With the Wind and AKA were already here. Persuasion arrived

Posted: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 - 12:45

All well on board. Only 25 miles to the pass at N Minerva! Looks like we will be there this afternoon. Beautiful blue sky and sparkly, almost-calm water. Not great for sailing, but with the motor

Posted: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 - 06:00

All well on board. Still motorsailing to reach N Minerva before sunset today. At sunset last night, hundreds of miles from land, a welcome swallow flew into our cockpit and perched on our

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