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: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 - 07:15

Left marina yesterday and headed out with another fleet boat to do some fishing. Got heaps of fish included my biggest snapper ever at 65cms! Going for scallops today - although the water temperature

Posted: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 - 12:48

A late start was followed by a walk to the shop for breakfast supplies - bacon, eggs, tomatoes, etc etc. The remaining 3-4 boats have arrived so there's gonna be another party tonight. We have just

Posted: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 - 00:00

Arrived on the quarantine dock at Opua at 0250 am. Tied up and enjoyed a quiet beer in the cockpit to celebrate. More boats arrived and we helped them tie up and enjoyed a few more beers. Next thing

Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 - 21:26

wind SSW 14knots, All well aboard. 63 nm to go. ETA at Opua Q dock approx. 0400 NZDT Steve White (reported 25/10/17 5.08pm)

Posted: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 - 07:46

All well aboard. Fantastic day sailing. Two more tuna in the freezer :) Ade. Steve White (reported 24/10/17 7.56PM)

Posted: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 - 10:27

All well aboard. Lots of rain - boat clean! but getting colder -Steve White (reported 23/10/17 6.02PM)

Posted: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 - 16:12

What a magic sail! we have full main and both jibs out and doing 7.5 - 8 knots in 10-13 knots breeze in relatively calm seas. The water is the usual stunning blue of water that's kilometers deeps

Posted: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 - 16:01

Having a fantastic sail! All well on board Steve White (reported 20/10/17 6.46pm(

Posted: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 - 21:44

Cleared customs - check Stocked up on French cheese - check Filled diesel tanks - check Moved to Ile Maitre to pick up a mooring - check Secured dingy, kayaks, and anchor for passage home -

Posted: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 - 17:51

Looks like there's a weather window this Friday, so we'll be clearing customs tomorrow and leaving early Friday morning. I'll be sending satellite text updates to our good friend Debs who will enter

Posted: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 - 09:47

Spent a few windy days in Noumea. Have visited the aquarium and had some fantastic French cuisine at a local bistro. Most of the fleet is here for drinkies get-together tonight. Looking like possible

Posted: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 - 11:17

Came back in to Noumea yesterday morning. Got more French food supplies and had a nice 'walking tour' around the city. In parts of the city you'd swear you were in France - lots of shopping

Posted: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 - 16:45

Left Noumea for Ilot Maitre, about 3 Miles away. Ilot Maitre is the kiteboarding capital of New Caledonia, it's a marine reserve and it's a very pretty little island a stones throw from Noumea's

Posted: Mon, 9 Oct 2017 - 23:10

Left ile de Casy early before the wind picked up and to also get the right tides to go through Canal Woodin and around to Noumea. Anchored up in a very busy port and went shore to get fresh fruit and

Posted: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 - 16:37

Decided that it's time to go visit noumea, so have come back to Ile Casy for the night so we can have an early start with the right tide to get through to noumea.

Posted: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 - 16:35

Went for a look up to the head of the harbour. It kind of reminds us of coromandel except with very red soil.

Posted: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 - 00:00

Moved to the western side of the island in order to go visit "Moose" the dog. See Facebook for photos and the story of Moose who lives on a deserted tropical island.

Posted: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 - 00:00

Spent a few days in Isle of Pines before having a lovely sail to Baie de Prony. Picked up a mooring on the northern side of Ile Casy.

Posted: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 - 15:06

We left Beautemp beaupre about 9am and motored in glassy conditions down to isle of pins. We hooked a large yellowfin tuna yesterday but lost it, but landed a skip jack and a nice smaller yellowfin

Posted: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 - 00:00

We moved around to the western anchorage after a few boats left. It was still a tight squeeze and the holding wasn't as good at the northern anchorage, but there was a sandy beach to go ashore. We

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