Windchase

Windchase is a 1974 Pacific 38 (Hull no 18), built in Whangarei, NZ.

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Posted: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 - 14:47

Arrived Santa Marta, Colombia after a 343nm generally great downwind 2.5 day passage from Curacao, which we had left on 27 Feb. We whizzed past Aruba at 9kn...assisted by the decent wind - and a 3kn

Posted: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 - 14:48

Left Martinique on 17 Feb, continuing south initially to close past the spectacular Les Pitons peaks of St Lucia at sunset. We then turned west, to arrived Willemsted in Curacao, after a 534nm

Posted: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 - 14:53

Leaving Guadaloupe on 9th Feb, we arrived to check in at St Pierre, Martinique after some exciting sailing down the coast from Guadaloupe - with a cheeky little overnight stop off the coast of

Posted: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 - 14:44

Arrived to check in at Deshaies, Guadaloupe after a pretty slow 225nm 53hr passage, upwind and against the prevailing currents :-(, from Great Lameshur Bay where we had spent our last couple of

Posted: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 - 14:51

<p>Arrived to check in at Cruz Bay, USVI after a (very!) easy 7nm cruise from the West End of Tortola, BVI</p>

Posted: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 - 14:45

Wheres Wally? Or more to the point, where's Windchase? Well a few very brief updates to catch-up on our whistlestop tour of the Carribean...We've actually just set off from Panama, bound for the

Posted: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 - 04:09

FINALLY made it to Antigua and now sitting at the customs wharf in Jolly Harbour. Just completed our fomalities and waiting on vet to allow Mili ashore. The last few days we've had some reasonable

Posted: Wed, 1 Jan 2020 - 02:00

Well as you can see from the recent daily run distances below, it looks like we have enjoyed our all-too-brief period of decent wind and are now back to the lighter stuff. Still, at least the seas

Posted: Sun, 29 Dec 2019 - 01:09

Our slow progress continues... we may just get the record for the slowest crossing ever! After one very welcome but sadly short lived period of wind on Xmas Eve and the morning of Xmas Day, the wind

Posted: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 - 01:57

Woops, forgot to change the time and position on that last one...We were actually here at midday!

Posted: Tue, 24 Dec 2019 - 01:30

Hard to believe that a whole year has passed since we arrived in Nai Harn, Thailand to enjoy a great Christmas, with Wendy, Willy, Jasper and Storm, the NZ crew of Intrigue. A few miles have passed

Posted: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 - 02:27

Progress continues (albeit fairly slowly) 'West'! Actually its more like working our way towards the WSW, as the forecast is for lighter winds on a more-direct (rhumb-line) track...We'll try to get a

Posted: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 - 01:39

After 5 and a bit days, we're now well underway, having covered just over 600nm of the total trip of around 2,800. The frustrating (aka slow!) progress of the previous couple of days has given way to

Posted: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 - 06:45

3 and a bit days and about 380nm down (2,350 to go!)...All well aboard, despite pretty slow progress after a stonking start. Basically we've been making a one-legged centipede look fast for the past

Posted: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 - 01:00

Underway from Tenerife (left 1000 yesterday) heading SW towards the Trade Winds. Bit of a frisky start with 25-35kn True and lumpy following sea most of yesterday and overnight, so we have been

Posted: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 - 22:45

The stop in Gibraltar did indeed turn out to be a rapid one, so we could catch the 'perfect' weather window we'd being watching for, for the 750nm passage here to Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary

Posted: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 - 06:21

Arrived here at Gibraltar after a relatively uneventful 450nm (4 day, 3 night) passage from Majorca. After a brisk start, sailing along at 7kn for the first 12 hours, we hit the expected calms - and

Posted: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 - 06:07

Well given the lack of engine, the move to the marina in Pollenca turned out to be a good one, despite the fact that the 'med-mooring' visitor berths at the (RCN) marina are on the unprotected side

Posted: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 - 05:07

Port De Pollença. Leaving Sardinia, it was only a relatively short hop west for us over to Menorca, the northern-most of the Balearic Islands. Here we anchored down for 4 nights in Cala Teluera

Posted: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 - 02:36

Isola Piana: Departing the mainland west, we crossed the Bay with Pompei and Vesuvius mostly hidden behind a veil of cloud.. Or it may have been smog from Naples, as the sun came out in force as we

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