September 2011 - Dulcinea

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 ...

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...

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...

(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. ...

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...

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 ...

Coming into Poverty Bay (Gisborne) After a very rough night which reminded me of the night we spent anchored off Ft Lauderdale (both time...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...