Sheer Tenacity

Rod and Mary sailed from Cape Town in 2008 in their "homebuilt" Dudley Dix designed Shearwater 39, Sheer Tenacity. Their voyage has taken them via the Atlantic islands of St Helena and Ascension to the Bay of Islands, south of Rio, up the Brazilian coast to the Caribbean where they cruised for a couple of years. They then crossed the Caribbean Sea via the ABC's and Colombia to the San Blas and Panama. .They transited the canal in March 2013, and followed the milk run to Galapagos, Marquesas, French Polynesia, Suwarrow, Samoa ,Tonga, before arriving in NZ in November 2013. They spent most of 2014 exploring North and South Island by land, doing boat work, and preparing for the next leg of their travels to Fiji, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, and Australia.

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Posted: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 - 20:05

=20 Having left Tin can Bay yesterday with the outgoing tide, we anchored in Pelican Bay ,ready for an early morning departure today. The Wide Bay Bar was as calm as it gets, and despite it being

Posted: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 - 17:46

=20 We had quite an eventful morning at Pelican Bay yesterday morning. First an uncrewed fishing boat washed up on the sandspit and sank in the strong winds and waves. Then a yacht anchored way too

Posted: Wed, 5 Oct 2016 - 18:50

=20 Safely at anchor in Pelican Bay, just short of the Wide Bay bar that we have to get over to get out to the open sea for the leg to Mooloolaba. We have just done the torturous route through the

Posted: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 - 15:51

=20 Anchored at White Cliffs, very tranquil at the moment (long may that last). Bad night last night......wind changed and blew strongly. We hopped and bopped and at one point thought we were

Posted: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 - 21:18

=20 Arrived at our anchorage behind Big Woody Island in the Great Sandy Straits. Left Bundaberg at 7.00h this morning. More wind than we expected and again directly behind us which is Sheer's worst

Posted: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 - 14:09

=20 Safely moored in Bundaberg Port Marina. Arrived this morning at about 9.30h. Very difficult night, strong wind directly astern and fairly big sea which created a very uncomfortable situation

Posted: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 - 09:20

=20 At anchor off the south side of Keppell. Leaving today for an overnighter to Bundaberg. At the moment there is precious little wind from the south, which is not what we want. We will wait for the

Posted: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 - 17:51

At anchor off Long Beach, Great Keppell Island. Left Port Clinton at low tide this morning and although concerned about one section of our exit depthwise, we had no problems. Wasn't a pleasant

Posted: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 - 18:36

Safely at anchor after a 179nm overnighter from the Whitsundays. We're in Port Clinton on the mainland. It has a tricky entry through mudbanks into the mangroves where we are anchored with one other

Posted: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 - 20:00

Left Whitsunday Island 06.15h this morning. Motor sailed all day with some current assist. Decided to do an overnighter to Island Head Creek. The weather is very benign and is predicted to stay this

Posted: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 - 20:12

At anchor in Chance Bay, Whitsundays Island. Last day of our Whitsundays cruise. Very good day......Hook Island Passage in very hectic conditions......Tongue Bay, picked up a mooring and walked up to

Posted: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 - 17:16

Safely anchored at Airlie Beach. The wind unexpectedly changed back to south in the night and so we were able to come here to do some things. It's noisy and busy with jetskis and power boats creating

Posted: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 - 17:21

Anchored in beautiful Nara Inlet on Hook Island. Think we'll stay a few days before going to Airlie Beach for garbage removal and provisioning. Also will get some internet there!

Posted: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 - 19:15

Wind is turning to northeasterly so we had to forego our plan to visit Whitehaven Beach today and are peacefully anchored in CID Harbour. Will probably stay here until the wind resumes its usual

Posted: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 - 14:36

Just dropped anchor in Burning Point anchorage on Shaw Island. Lovely calm spot. Spent 2 night at Goldsmith....it was too peaceful to leave!! We may stay here another day or push on to the iconic

Posted: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 - 17:30

Finally left Mackay Marina after more than 2 months! Not enough wind too sail but we weren't going too far and the pleasure of being out of the marina outweighed the irritation of the engine noise

Posted: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 - 17:46

We are in Mackay Harbour Marina today......a long story!! We left South Percy before daybreak, intending to do a couple of overnighters to break the back of the passage to Cairns while the weather

Posted: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 - 23:23

Left Island Head Creek at 8.00h this morning on an incoming tide. Had a really good fast sail to South Percy 46nm. We are anchored with one other yacht rocking gently at this time. That could change

Posted: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 - 21:53

Had a really early start this morning, before daybreak, from Great Keppel Island. On a scale of 1-10, maybe 3!! Very rolly, shallow and not particularly attractive. However, it beat being at sea

Posted: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 - 20:33

At anchor in very rolly Great Keppell Bay in the Great Barrier Reef. Had a rough and uncomfortable night at sea, a good shake down for boat and body after nearly 7 months on land!

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