White Hawk

White Hawk is a 1986 Grand Soleil 46' built in Italy by Contiere del Pardo. She has a flush deck, convertible cutter rig, and is white with marine blue cove stripe, coach house stripe, and canvas. Her owners John and Lynette who have owned her since 1999 are cruising the Pacific for their second time.

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Posted: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 - 09:54

The winds shut down to 4-8 knots dead downwind Sunday night and we were forced to motor all night. When the winds picked up to 10-15k from 191 T Monday morning, we tried sailing but ETA for Suva was

Posted: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 - 08:45

Passing by beautiful Kadavu. Nice to see some patches of blue sky after heavy cloud cover yesterday. 52 miles to go to Suva.

Posted: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 - 08:42

Awoke yesterday (Sat) to a glassy lagoon but by 8AM the winds filled in to 10-12kt. We exited the South Minerva pass bound for Suva, Fiji at 10AM with wind 18-19k and building from 241T, putting it

Posted: Thu, 2 Aug 2018 - 08:00

Mission accomplished in South Minerva and waiting for a weather window to Suva. Most of the day yesterday (Wed local) winds were 22-27 knots, gusting just shy of 30, from 340T as low passed to the

Posted: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 - 13:12

Anchor down in lovely, sunny, warm and blue, blue, blue South Minerva Reef at last! We've got the place to ourselves so we're playing the White Hawk "Sunshine Mix" up loud while we launch the dinghy

Posted: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 - 08:27

Surprisingly consistent wind the last 24 hours, mostly 16-21 kts from the SE. Nice downwind sailing much of the day yesterday with the wind going forward late in the day and remaining there all

Posted: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 - 08:06

Fabulous 24 hours. What a difference a day makes! Yesterday we sailed at about 6 kts under mostly sunny skies with 12 knots of breeze and swell on the beam. By evening the winds filled in from the

Posted: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 - 07:30

Interesting 24 hours with a bit of everything. In recent hours, the boat was pounding to weather at nearly 9 knots with double reefed main and partial genoa, so we just now furled the genoa and

Posted: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 - 09:18

We had a slow but pleasant day of sailing yesterday under 6-8 kts of wind until sunset when the wind shut down to less than 5 kts from behind (SSW). We saw mostly 1 to 2 kts overnight so we motored

Posted: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 - 10:06

Dropped the dock lines at Marsden Cove, NZ around 11:15 AM Monday. Mostly motored in light air to just past the Poor Knights when winds filled in to 12-15k from SW. Starry night with nice sailing

Posted: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 - 22:33

Spending our last night on Kawau Island at South Cove near the old Copper Mine. We've had a great time cruising the Hauraki Gulf. Tomorrow we head to Whangarei to pay our dues and start the boat

Posted: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 - 13:18

Fantastic weekend at the Mahurangi Regatta viewing the classic yacht parade and races!

Posted: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 - 23:48

At anchor in lovely Mansion House Bay, Kawau Island, NZ cleaning the bag limit of scallops John nabbed in 20 minutes of diving on the shoals.

Posted: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 - 15:36

Anchored at North Cove, Kawau Island, NZ. Lin Pardey, who lives here and runs the boat yard, dropped by in her skiff Jay Dee to welcome us to the harbor.

Posted: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 - 13:51

Anchored off the abandoned copper mine on the glassy water of Dispute Cove on Kawau Island, NZ feeding a lonely duck and watching 3 yellowtail kingfish swim about the boat. Great Tuesday morning

Posted: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 - 12:45

Anchored at Bostaquet Bay, Kawau Island. Beautiful relaxing sail to weather yesterday from Putaki Bay, Waiheke on the semi-sheltered waters of the Hauraki Gulf in 10-14 knots of breeze. It was great

Posted: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 - 18:00

Nice sail Saturday from Motuihe Island to Putiki Bay on the south side of Waiheke Island.

Posted: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 - 21:48

Anchored at Motuihe Island, NZ.

Posted: Mon, 8 Jan 2018 - 09:18

Beautiful sail Sunday from Great Barrier Island to Waiheke in 8-18 knots, gusting 23k, with whales breaching and spouting off the NE end of Little Barrier Island. We were hard to weather but it was

Posted: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 - 22:12

Our last night at Great Barrier Island was spent in Smokehouse Bay - a beautiful end to the stay here after the atrocious weather the last few days. The wind finally eased and the clouds broke late

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