Seaforth

Seaforth is a Laurie Davidson designed centre cockpit sloop. She was built in Whangarei and launched in 1988. Seaforth is a well-built yacht and will carry her crew this season (2018) to Tonga and Fiji with the Island Cruising rally before returning home to New Zealand in September.

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Posted: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 - 10:12

We realised we never posted a final update to show we are back home safe and sound, but you probably all knew that :). We had a good final run from Whangaruru all the way back to Gulf Harbour (and

Posted: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 - 17:21

Started the final leg of our journey home. Left Opua just before lunch and now anchored up in Whangaruru Harbour for the night. Steve?s gonna cook up a tuna green curry for dinner, washed down with a

Posted: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 - 06:54

In all the excitement of arriving, I forgot to post an update! We had an ?interesting? last night at sea. We had a front come through which was not pleasant. The forecast was high 20s, gusting mid

Posted: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 - 17:42

Conditions are a bit ?sporty? but making good speed to home. 118nm to go. Eta to Q dock at Opua approx noon tomorrow. Counting down the hours. All well onboard.

Posted: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 - 13:18

I feel like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day. Motorsailing towards NZ. ETA into Bay of Islands sometime on Wednesday, probably after the front goes through. All well onboard.

Posted: Sun, 26 Aug 2018 - 17:45

Another day at the office. Motoring or motorsailing in light winds today. Same forecasted for tomorrow. Slowly slowly catchy monkey. All well onboard.

Posted: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 - 17:33

We?ve had a frustrating last 2-3 days with tacking backwards and forwards into southerly winds and not making much headway. The wind is slowly starting to play ball, but it has added another day to

Posted: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 - 18:48

The sun came out finally today which was lovely. We had a boobie (the bird) flying around us for quite a while which was cool to watch. We are making progress towards NZ although it seems quite slow

Posted: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 - 16:18

The sea state flattened out, and the wind eased and settled, and we managed to have full main and Genoa from the early hours and really got up and going. Mostly high 7s/8s knots. Then about lunch

Posted: Wed, 22 Aug 2018 - 16:24

We left fiji just after dark and motoring all night until the wind came in at dawn. The trade winds kicked in and the sea state is little sloppy but to be expected. We?re sailing along nicely. We

Posted: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 - 17:00

We have had an awesome few days catching up with some great friends - some of whom we will hopefully see when they come to visit on Site Office, but some also that we may not see for years. It?s

Posted: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 - 15:57

Left the mainland about 7am and got to Musket just before noon. It was lovely and we anchored up next to three friends - Spontaneous, Moonfish, and Fusio. In typical Musket Cove fashion it was

Posted: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 - 17:27

We moved around and anchored off Lautoka this morning and went in to see the bright lights of the big city! It?s grown a lot since we were there last - there?s even a McDonald?s ?. We got some fruit

Posted: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 - 16:57

We left at 7.15am and motored/motorsailed 2/3rds of the way down the western side of Fiji?s main island. The day started with 2 knots, and ended with 20+. As we rounded the headland towards Lautoka

Posted: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 - 21:03

We had a great sail across the the main island of Fiji. Unfortunately we didn?t get a fish, although we think a marlin had a good look at one of our lures (knocked it, and Steve saw the fin following

Posted: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 - 16:15

After chatting to Chris and Lynda off Amici about the passage and the anchorage at coconut point, we decided to anchor overnight in a bay just north of the Nasonisoni passage. We left about 8am and

Posted: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 - 10:06

Just a test message to see if I can send a photo with the satellite email :)

Posted: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 - 08:36

We had a nice motorsail/sail to Cousteau?s. We had everything from 2 to 20 knots. We caught a small big-eye tuna, and after dealing with it, once it?s fillets were safely in the fridge, we noticed

Posted: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 - 18:42

It?s time to start heading south, so we left the lovely Albert Cove, and headed around the north of Rabi Island, through Texas Reef, and down through the Rabi Channel towards the Somosomo strait. We

Posted: Sat, 4 Aug 2018 - 13:54

I didn?t realise it was so long since we last posted. Sorry about that! A few more boats turned up on Thursday, and we had a pot luck dinner on ?Sel Citron? (52ft Katana). It was a great night, but

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