Taranui 111

47 foot Cutter rigged offshore yacht

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Posted: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 - 07:39

At Mushroom Bay on Ha’ano Island, gorgeous. Only a few Humpback Whales left but great snorkelling..
Slowly threading our way South. ETD Nuku’alofa 28th Oct

Posted: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 - 08:03

After a wonderful 3 months cruising around the many beautiful islands of French Polynesia we sailed from Bora Bora on the 1st September to Suwarrow. Spent 9 wonderful days in that pristine National

Posted: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 - 13:05

Anchored in the Tahanea lagoon, boom tent up. It is amazing that this lagoon is one of 77 atolls in the Tuamotos and we can barely see the motus on the other side of the lagoon ( our horizon is 4

Posted: Sun, 2 Jun 2019 - 13:20

We are definatley in a different climate zone, light airs and warm enough to sleep outside in a T shirt. A gorgeous night with lots of luminescence and the Milky Way very clear. At first light

Posted: Sat, 1 Jun 2019 - 13:25

We think we passed through the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) last night and it sure felt like it, what little we know. The wind died and came from all quarters so we motored through and from

Posted: Fri, 31 May 2019 - 13:25

We have had a lovely night with steady winds between 14 & 18 knots just forward of the beam, mainsail reefed some and full # 2 genoa, sliding along in a moderate sea state at 8 - 9 knots, making good

Posted: Thu, 30 May 2019 - 21:20

Once the front passed over the Austral group and we endured 35 knots of wind at anchor, plus rain ( we were pleased to be there!) it all settled down and yesterday was improving and today was

Posted: Mon, 27 May 2019 - 12:00

We have just dropped anchor in the beautiful lagoon at Raivavae, a spectacular island. So much fun seeing this rising out of the deep sea with its jagged peaks and to see green (other than the

Posted: Mon, 27 May 2019 - 07:20

A lovely starry night with the Milky Way dominant and a few meteorites burning up overhead. Still a confused sea and SE trades running abt 18 - 20 knots. Looks to be abt 30 N Miles only to run to

Posted: Sun, 26 May 2019 - 06:50

We finished off Liz Davis's ginger crunch yesterday and then I pulled out a fabulous fruit cake from Christine Anton, very tasty on the night watch. we crossed the 30 degree latitude & 153 degree

Posted: Sat, 25 May 2019 - 06:35

Another low wind day today with some long slow swells coming up behind. Finally made the call to head straight to Raivavae which is now only abt 340 Nm away, yahoo. Slow reaching along in clear skies

Posted: Fri, 24 May 2019 - 06:20

A lovely clear night with not even any rain showers, could have done with the wind. We can't complain about the trip so far though, have had a dream run but we are between two highs so have zero wind

Posted: Thu, 23 May 2019 - 06:33

A gorgeous big rainbow in the East before sun down yesterday and with the moon rising later (we are happy to have the moon)we had a lovely star show last night, very clear, milky way and a planet we

Posted: Wed, 22 May 2019 - 06:42

The low is sliding through and the high is chasing along on our Eastern journey and other than a few rain squals last night and some light patches that we motor sailed through, we have been sailing

Posted: Tue, 21 May 2019 - 06:30

Yesterday was "blue hump day" and we passed our 1/2 way point ahead of schedule. A lovely day out here where we all had showers on the back deck in the mid day sun and a very creative (& delicious)

Posted: Mon, 20 May 2019 - 06:24

We even saw shooting stars with a full moon last night, only one rain squall all night and a steady wind. The NW wind came in abt noon and increased until we were two sail reaching with between 14 &

Posted: Sun, 19 May 2019 - 06:54

I came on watch at 0600 to be greeted by no less than 10 Short tailed Sherwaters circling around us, these wonderful migrating birds seem to have adopted us. A freindly black browed albatross cruised

Posted: Sat, 18 May 2019 - 06:39

We had a Southerly shift abt noon yesterday which allowed us to sail due East with speed, now sailing with a reefed main and 1/2 genoa and doing a steady 7.5 kts and more in the gusts. Some rain

Posted: Fri, 17 May 2019 - 09:48

The ship and crew are settling into a good rythm and we have tacked down our course to avoid running flat off with poles etc in a seaway, wind has been over the aft quarter for 2 days now and we

Posted: Thu, 16 May 2019 - 07:33

We have been sailing well with the increased wind aft of the beam which gives perfect reaching conditions, have done our equivalent 200NM day but now in a confused sea. Lovely morning and all well on

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