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: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 - 15:09

We refilled our empty petrol containers and then went for lunch at the meat deli in Neiafu. This is run by a Canadian couple who do all sorts of certified meats, sausages, smoked meats etc. Steve had

Posted: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 - 20:36

Did some boat jobs yesterday, and visited a boat from last years rally to swop movies, photos, books, charts, and have a general chit chat. This morning we had a local boat come around trying to sell

Posted: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 - 19:48

We had a lazy day yesterday reading books and doing some washing, and then went to Varekai for a Sunday roast - it was great! Amanda then had a go of cutting my unruly hair and did a pretty good job

Posted: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 - 19:45

We had the best sleep since leaving Opua! Dead flat, even with a bit of breeze, was pure luxury. Nothing like a surrounding coral reef to block out those open ocean swells. We did some washing and

Posted: Fri, 29 Jun 2018 - 17:57

We got up and were out of the anchorage just after midnight for the trip up to Vava?u. It was a pretty good sail in up to 20knots of wind, and into the 8 knots of boat speed. Because of the

Posted: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 - 18:09

We had rum punch and a pot luck lunch on the beach today which was great. Some people left today but more are leaving late tonight or early tomorrow. It?s a shame we have to go to Vava?u to extend

Posted: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 - 22:30

We started the day a bit slowly, and then had breakfast on ?Oyster Reach?. She is a lovely NZ built 54ft Oyster built in 2009. The owners are a lovely American couple who have crewed on yachts (65+

Posted: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 - 20:45

We had a lazy morning of reading in the cockpit while waiting for the 1pm kickoff for the beach games at the Sea Change Eco Resort. Most people were late (Island time) but it started eventually and

Posted: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 - 08:18

We moved back to Uoleva Island yesterday. Caprice had been out a day or two back for a fish and saw heaps of marlin and had 3-4 on the go at once. They lost all of them and then never saw any again

Posted: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 - 21:39

Moved here late morning/lunch time. Went to the Royal Agriculture Fisheries Tourism and Trade show. See other Facebook post for comments. No comment.

Posted: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 - 17:09

Luckily it eventually cooled down and we had a fantastic calm, still, sleep. Bliss! We did a couple of jobs in the morning, including Steve having a go at polishing our solar panels. They had gone

Posted: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 - 19:54

After a lovely sleep in calm conditions, I got up and watched the sun rise over the little uninhabited island we were anchored off. We had an early morning visit to shore, after motoring through

Posted: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 - 15:18

Had a noisy and rolly ?sleep?. Upped anchor and motorsailed north. Maybe if we tuck inside the outer reef to the east of the central Ha?apai Group, we?ll have a calmer anchorage and better sleep

Posted: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 - 17:45

Steve here .... I know Ade normally writes these updates but I?m having a go tonight. We headed away from Nomuka this morning (as did a lot of the boats) and we had decided to go eastward thinking

Posted: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 - 18:03

We were planning to snorkel today, but the ?Eco Resort? on the big island offered rides across the channel (sorry, the use of the word ?resort? is a pretty generous description. It?s basically a shed

Posted: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 - 19:48

We have had a relaxing day, especially after the unwelcome neighbours moved early this morning. As we were not allowed to do anything on a Sunday (it?s apparently against the law to do ?water sports

Posted: Sat, 16 Jun 2018 - 21:42

We had a lazy morning until the ?fun? started - a boat that dragged a few days ago and caused all sorts of trouble started motoring over towards us and moved in front of us. After failing to anchor

Posted: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 - 19:21

We woke at 4am with no wind so took our time getting up. We upped anchor and were out the reef pass by 4.40am. With no wind we motored north east. Once the sun was up we put some lures out, and an

Posted: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 - 18:48

We did a few boat jobs this morning. I bottled some beer and Steve pulled the aft head apart because it had sounded a bit funny. Turns out it was fine so he spent a frustrating morning for nothing -

Posted: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 - 11:09

I forgot to mention yesterday that the Aussie Navy is in town. The ?mothership? (HMAS Melbourne) and accompanying protecting frigate/warship (HMAS Adelaide) arrived yesterday while we were over in

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