Surreal II

ZMA2074 Surreal II is a 47 foot Lavranos catamaran launched in 2007, current owners are Allan & Lyn Boyce.

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Posted: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 - 14:33

Thursday ..... and after a quiet night at anchor in Tahaa, we moved just after breakfast on Wednesday across the channel to the top side of the Tahaa Hotel & Spa and dropped anchor, so we could go

Posted: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 - 16:12

Tuesday ..... and we are now in Tahaa ........ the 'vanilla' island, where apparently they produce 80% of all the vanilla produced in French Polynesia! So on Friday we made it back to Bora Bora just

Posted: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 - 14:21

Friday ..... an FP bank holiday to celebrate "Autonomy" day, since Tuesday we have left Bora Bora and ar enow on our way back there again! After a very peaceful night off Toopua Motu, Wednesday

Posted: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 - 16:12

Tuesday ..... and we're now in Bora Bora ........ the weather stayed fair and we had the best sail since we departed Auckland some 8weeks ago, arriving off Bora Bora at 10pm on Saturday evening (some

Posted: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 - 13:21

Friday ..... and we've now departed from Rangiroa and are enroute to Bora Bora approx 250nm & hopefully around 30hrs sailing time away! So since our last blog on Tuesday, Pzazz & Katariana have both

Posted: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 - 13:21

Friday ..... and we've now departed from Rangiroa and are enroute to Bora Bora approx 250nm & hopefully around 30hrs sailing time away! So since our last blog on Tuesday, Pzazz & Katariana have both

Posted: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 - 11:27

Tuesday (FP time) ..... as we got nearer to Rangiroa on Sunday evening the clouds mostly cleared and we had a lovely starry night, the moon also making an occasional appearance. We motored up the

Posted: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 - 12:54

Sunday ..... and another day on the high seas in a yacht named Surreal II ....... after our false start on Thursday to go to Rangaroa we remained at anchor on Friday in Cooks Bay on Moorea, as we

Posted: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 - 17:51

Thursday 14th June ....... now in Moorea, so we left Papeete Marina on Tuesday after we handed back the hire car ......... with all the major and most of the minor "boat jobs to do list" completed

Posted: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 - 04:15

Thursday 7th June ....... still in Tahiti, well Papeete Marina to be precise, so right in the centre of town! We moved from outside Taina Marina down to here via both ends of the runway ...... we had

Posted: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 - 04:15

Monday 11th June ....... still in Tahiti, and the ladies have arrived! So Thursday evening/night was the airport runs and crew change time ........ Andrew departing Lyn & Zuni arriving

Posted: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 - 19:54

Monday ..... short, sharp & sweet ...........we got here to Tahiti!! After nearly 6 days of frustrating sailing and a last night where we did everything to slow the boat down ....... not easy with

Posted: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 - 14:12

Sunday ..... and another day on the high seas in a yacht named Surreal II ....... around 9pm last night we gybed back on to stbd tack as the wind had backed far enough for us to head almost due north

Posted: Sun, 3 Jun 2018 - 13:48

late yesterday evening we gybed back onto a port tack and have continued this way ever since, the wind is from the south and we're heading NE to Papeete, the sun came out mid morning after some early

Posted: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 - 15:36

well the last 24hrs have certainly been different ....... just after nightfall we could see lightning on the horizon behind us, then the moon came up briefly amongst the clouds and overnight we had

Posted: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 - 13:36

so another day in the South Pacific battling against a wind that doesn't want play ball ........ we stayed on our northerly tack all night and tacked back to the west at daybreak as we hadn't made

Posted: Thu, 31 May 2018 - 16:48

we had a bumpy sail all night, fairly hard on the wind (40 degrees AWA) tacking north around midnight and then back west this morning, before final tacking back north just before nightfall at 5pm

Posted: Wed, 30 May 2018 - 13:00

today dawned with a mixture of clouds and blue sky, it was another peaceful night in the anchorage and at times a clear sky and full moon lighting the whole bay so it was nearly like daylight. We

Posted: Tue, 29 May 2018 - 15:09

Rapa - after yesterdays adverse weather throughout the day, by 4pm the winds started to abate, the waves in the bay disappeared and 'normal' service returned, it even started to feel a little warmer

Posted: Mon, 28 May 2018 - 15:57

Rapa - another day in the remote wilderness, and today we found out how wild it can be ........ from before sunrise the boat was being battered by 30+kt winds and shearing around on our anchor, white

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