Tusi 2

Tusi 2 is a 12m Alan Wright design built in Auckland in three skin kauri glassed over and launched about 1987. We, Mike and Helen Timperley, bought the boat, at that time named "Kings Row", in December 2011 and immediately set about finding a new name for her. The grandkids' choice was "Tusi 2" derived from the name of our previous boat of 20 years "Tusitala" a kauri Pacific 38. Tusi 2 is very similar in design to Alan Wright's "Oceans 12" of which six were built in fibreglass by Lotus Yachts. Tusi 2 was extensively refitted in 2012 to bring her up to offshore and islands cruising capability and our first cruise in her was to Fiji in 2013.

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Posted: Sat, 26 May 2018 - 04:06

Mike and Helen on board. We're anchored on the south side of Point Venus, Captain Cook's spot for observing the transit of Venus, and are departing in a few minutes on our passage of 185nm to

Posted: Thu, 10 May 2018 - 17:48

We're now anchored in a designated anchorage area immediately to the north of marina Taina. We entered through the southern pass, Taapuna pass, and were immediately faced with dozens of locals on

Posted: Thu, 10 May 2018 - 05:09

We're 45nm from Papeete. The front is still moving over us although there is some sun this morning. Lots of lightning last night in a wide band from the N through W to the SW of us. The wind was

Posted: Wed, 9 May 2018 - 06:03

We're 160nm from Papeete. The rain ahead of the next front has reached us but not the stronger winds so far. The front was the reason we left Raivavae a bit earlier than we had planned. A gannet or

Posted: Tue, 8 May 2018 - 07:51

Great sailing hard on the wind. Our ETA Papeete now looking like Wednesday FP time (Thursday NZ time). No fish yet this morning.

Posted: Tue, 8 May 2018 - 06:18

Great sailing hard on the wind. Our ETA Papeete now looking like Wednesday FP time (Thursday NZ time). No fish yet this morning.

Posted: Mon, 7 May 2018 - 16:48

We're now about 40nm from Raivavae heading for Tahiti in very light winds. We're in no rush and don't have lots of fuel so we'll go as fast as the wind allows. We should get into Papeete on either

Posted: Mon, 7 May 2018 - 08:36

At anchor in the port on Raivavae packing up to leave for Tahiti later today. This coming week looks like a mix of poor weather with a front on Tuesday or Wednesday. Because of the murky water

Posted: Fri, 4 May 2018 - 05:45

drifting off the passage into Raivavae, having tea before getting the boat ready to enter the pass, the main job being to shift the big anchor and chain from under the aft bunk where it has been

Posted: Thu, 3 May 2018 - 06:06

The wind finally arrived yesterday at 1000 from the SW at 4-7kns. We hoisted the code zero and sailed at 3-5kns until 2000 last night while the wind backed slowly to the ESE. We motored from 2000

Posted: Wed, 2 May 2018 - 08:45

We've been motoring for the last 36 hours and expect to motor through to tomorrow night, Thursday NZ time, when we will arrive at Raivavae. Our fuel is getting down but my latest calculations

Posted: Tue, 1 May 2018 - 06:51

The wind dropped to W 2-3kn last evening as we entered a small high pressure area so we've been motoring since. We've 350nm to go to Raivavae with no useful wind forecast for the next three days as

Posted: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 - 08:00

The wind started to decrease last evening so we're now in much more comfortable conditions. We're still sailing downwind and rolling in the beam-on swell. We crossed the 500nm-to-go point at 0245

Posted: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 - 08:36

We're making good time towards Raivavae heading directly down wind in W-WSW 20-25 gusting 35kn in squalls. We've got 633nm to go so an ETA of Thursday still looks good. The winds are, however

Posted: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 - 09:21

The depression is well to the SE of us now, we've got a bit of sun and light winds but the seas are still quite big. The sail feeder on the Liesure furl main has broken so we're sailing with jib only

Posted: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 - 07:00

We've been sailing to the NNE overnight in variable winds between 15 and 35kn and from between N and SSE. We can now see the depression to the NNE of us. It's moving to the ESE so by midday today

Posted: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 - 07:57

We finally got the wind back at 2200 last night, varying between NE and ENE and 5-20kns. We;re still heading just east of north, 020T, to keep on the western side of the depression predicted to

Posted: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 - 07:51

We've been motoring north in almost no wind since last evening in order to cross the high pressure area that was to the north of us. The SW swell is now down to about 2m so apart from the engine

Posted: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 - 12:48

Update from our earlier report. We're now heading towards Raivavae a distance of 1080nm. So in seven days we're half way. We're sailing now with the code zero (a large light weight headsail) at

Posted: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 - 09:03

We've been motoring in light winds for the last 24 hours and have just turned towards Raivavae in the Australs about 1200nm away. There's a depression developing to the NE of us that we're planning

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