Well its another HORRIBLE day here in Wellington, the wind is howling at a good 20kn, the boat is rocking around in her slip and its cold. I...
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The DVD player dramas
Considering it was supposed to be raining it was not a bad morning, but looking at the forcast and the surrounding clouds we quickly got int...
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Running around town
Today we had one thing we really wanted to get done, get those sails in! the wind was reasonably light but from behind us which is not great...
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Let the repairs commence!
Today was an amazing morning, nice and warm and the day was shaping up to be a scorcher. We started by replacing some of the ropes on the bo...
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Merry Christmas
A big merry christmas to all, its a lovely day here in Christchurch, nice day to enjoy the sun and have a nice cold beer. It was nice to hav...
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Ferry Time
So I have to say it sucks getting up at 5:45am even if you are heading home. So we struggled out of bed on a cooler Wellington morning, pile...
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Clean Up Take 2
So the yacht has been sitting in Wellington for a month now, and we had a good opportunity to go up and get things off it that we wanted. Ro...
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The Cleanup
Well today it was nice to not only sleep in (and in a proper bed) but wake up beside Emma who I had missed a lot! we slept into 9am after a ...
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The Rescue
Lady Elizabeth IV - Our rescue boat So we rounded cape Palliser in the wee hours of the 24th, the wind was now up to 20kn from the NW and...
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Castle Point to Cape Palliser
Our only companion out here... Today was started off with a disaster, we had been motoring all night and had both fallen asleep (bad bad...
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Mahia Peninsula to Castle Point
(Cont from below) - So after hours of making no progress we decided to start the motor and point in the direction we actually wanted to go. ...
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Gisborne to Mahia Peninsula
Well it was a pretty still morining after yesterdays 40kn blow, but I could feel the wind building as the morning went on so we called the m...
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Inport Gisborne
It was nice to have a sleep in today, other than getting up early this morning to have a look at why there was suddenly a big bang. Checked ...
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Taloga Bay to Gisborne
Coming into Poverty Bay (Gisborne) After a very rough night which reminded me of the night we spent anchored off Ft Lauderdale (both time...
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Mayor Island to Taloga Bay
Not long after clearing Mayor Island there was a bang and the autopilot came up on the screen with 'no pilot'. After looking into th...
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Potiki Bay to Mayor Island
Awaking in the morning at the alarmed time of 6am (yuck!) we had some brekkie and had a look around where we had managed to park ourselves i...
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Auckland to Potiki Bay
Well another blustery day here in Auckland and the winds are up around 20-25kn with overcast weather so its pretty miserable. But we cast ...
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The Unload
So finally after delay after delay we got a call in the morning saying that they cannot find the key for the boat, where is it? I have no i...
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6 Days To Go
So as per the title its only 6 days to go (was supposed to be 3 but they emailed and said it was running behind which meant I had to move ou...
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Glad To Be Out
Well all I can say is I am extremely thankful my boat loaded when it did (and the fact its now through the Panama Canal and steaming it...
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Love is in the air
Just a short post to say happy birthday to Emma and that we are now engaged! I was really gutted mum could not be around to see it so I prop...
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Finally a date...
Today was good news with the shipping company emailing me the expected date for arrival into Auckland which is only a little over a month aw...
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Looking for a berth
So after returning home the hard job of finding somewhere suitable for the yacht when it arrives continues, the selection around Christchurc...
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Home, but not finished
Its been a good few weeks since we have returned home and settling back into life at home, we have experienced plenty of aftershocks in shak...
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Homeward Bound
So heres the big news...... We've pulled the pin... Yup, we are coming home to chilly NZ, no more 30+ degree days for us! We set off f...
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72nd Annual DeSoto Grand Parade or Who makes the best Pirate Ship
So one thing we have noticed in Bradenton is that they love a chance to block of all the roads and have a street fair, festival, concert or ...
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Prom Night Dumpster Baby
So the other weekend Roe, Owen, Mickey and I played bouncer to a high school party. It was apparently a hit and all the kids at Erics (the h...
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Rollercoasters and Bouncers
This weekend we had a visit from one of my school friends, Mickey. We picked him up on Friday evening and headed into Tampa for dinner with ...
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Work Between Storms
The work on the boat continues and we have a long list of things to fix/upgrade and everything takes time. So far we have installed the spra...
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Key West to Bradenton
So we are a little slack at this whole blogging thing at the moment I know. We have been in Bradenton, Florida nearly a week now. We left Ke...
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Vaca Key to Key West
Today we awoke to very little wind, overcast skies and a small amount of rain which sent us running around the yacht closing all the port ho...
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Rodriguez Key to Vaca Key
The morning was a beauty with nice easterly winds which were building from when we crawled out of bed, the sun was shining and it wasn’t lon...
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Key Largo to Rodriguez Key
Enroute to our destination, Rodriguez Key we anchored off a reef a few miles off shore and had a rather long swim to the reef but worth it a...
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Ft Lauderdale to Key Largo
We motored out of the marina after a bit of issue with the gear shifter cable but we will not go into details, nothing broke and we hit noth...
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Busy Busy Busy
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, its been full on since we moved into the boat. The thing was absolutely filthy and we have been spending...
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What an Ordeal!
We departed Grand Bahamas, wow what an ordeal! At the airport Owen bought a bottle of Kalik beer to keep on the boat (the boat make is Kalik...
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Bahamas - The Final Thoughts
How would you summarize Grand Bahama? Well I will attempt to do that below... People - The locals were friendly, usually willing to help ou...
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Lucayan National Park.
Go to the National Park they said, fun it would be they said, see native animals they said, what a crock of shit. When someone says nationa...
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