tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42799315917739585892024-03-13T20:42:22.630-07:00DesolinaA blog about Dave and Ruth sailing Desolina around New ZealandRuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-19003402883367453712015-06-08T15:49:00.000-07:002015-06-13T16:46:19.122-07:00Land Ahoy!<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
month since my last blog post has been packed with change. I’ve held off
writing this post until now because our plans for life after our sailing trip
were uncertain and I wanted to wait until final decisions had been made before
sharing them. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Firstly,
Dave and I decided to put Desolina up for sale. While she has been a amazing
home to us for the past two years and we think she is an awesome boat, we don’t
have any definite sailing plans for the immediate future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
obvious next step would be to do an offshore sailing trip, but I have to be
honest and say I’m not sure how enthusiastic I feel about doing long passages.
We think it would also be prudent to get some experience crewing on someone
else’s boat before we took on that huge responsibility for ourselves. Now
having gained some experience of owning and living on a boat, we’ve also
developed and refined our opinions about what we would want, and look for if we
were to buy another boat in the future. While Desolina is a perfectly capable
offshore cruiser, we’ve now got a list of features we’d look for in another
boat. Of course no boat is perfect and you’re always going to have to make
compromises, but I think owning Desolina has given us the opportunity to
develop some opinions about what we think our perfect boat would look like. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the helm, Bay of Islands</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At
any rate, it seemed sensible to put Desolina up for sale, since we have no
immediate plans for her. Too many boats lay abandoned in marinas, with their
owners only sailing them a handful of days per year and we didn’t want to be
one of those owners. Not to mention the money we’d be haemorrhaging on
maintenance and marina fees on a yacht we wouldn’t have the time to use when we’re
back in full time employment. Funnily enough, living aboard in Wellington
wasn’t on the top of my list of accommodation options for the coming year.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rainbow Falls, Kerikeri</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amazingly,
Desolina sold 38 days after first listing her! I think that must be some kind
of record. Luckily the right person came along at the right time. It was
bittersweet selling her; although we are happy to have sold her so quickly,
it’s also sad to wave farewell to our first home. It’s nice to know she will be
put to good use with her new owner though, who plans to take her cruising
around the Pacific Islands. The timing of the sale also couldn’t have been
better as we handed over ownership the day after we moved off the boat.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Desolina in all her glory!</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once
we knew the sale was definitely going through, we took her out for one last
farewell sail and night on anchor in the Bay of Islands. It was a wonderful
last trip out on her. We had a beautiful sunset in a still anchorage all to
ourselves (everyone else had already packed up because it was COLD!), a
downwind sail to return to the marina with our spinnaker sail up, and a very
brief ‘hello’ from some dolphins during the last hour of sailing before heading
into the marina for the final time.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last night at anchor. It was certainly getting cold!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final sunset from the boat</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We
previously made a trip back down to Wellington at the start of May for a
friend’s wedding, and to retrieve our car so we could move our personal
belongings off Desolina. Since then, we’ve driven A LOT of miles, from
Wellington up to the Bay of Islands to pack up the boat, and then driving all
the way down south to Queenstown, where we are going to be living for the next 10
weeks over winter.</span></div>
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a bit of a shock to the system coming from a long summer on the boat to full on
snowy winter conditions in Queenstown. However it feels good to be back on the
South Island and we’re ready to start the next chapter in our lives. I’ll let
you know how life is going in Queenstown in the next post, but in the meantime
I’ll leave you with some photos of our last few days sailing around the Bay of
Islands.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-11673729391466930142015-05-08T18:26:00.000-07:002015-05-20T19:18:07.811-07:00The final leg<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our
MacBook is finally fixed! And now for a very belated post about the final leg
of our journey up to the Bay of Islands. We departed Great Barrier Island
almost a month ago now. It’s hard to believe how the time has flown by since
then. We picked up the anchor in Bradshaw Cove shortly after sunrise and set
off early for the ten hour sail back across to the mainland. We had a bit of a
rolly sail across with 20kts of wind behind us. Dave says I was pretty grumpy
that day, but a visit from a few dolphins along the way and a decent lunch
helped pick up my mood. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our anchorage at Urqharts Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our
first destination was Urqharts Bay, just inside the head of Whangarei Harbour.
The entrance to Whangarei Harbour is visually spectacular with the steep hills
and cliffs of Bream Head looming overhead. There is also some decent walking in
Bream Head scenic reserve that we enjoyed. We ended up staying in Whangarei
Harbour for four nights; two nights at anchor and two in Marsden Cove Marina
while we waited for unfavourable weather conditions to pass us by. We even
hired a car for the day to explore the bright lights of Whangarei, and made a
trip up to Whangarei Falls, which was well worth a visit. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eventually we got a
little impatient and set off for Tutukaka Harbour in gusty 30kt southwest
conditions. It was probably made worse by the fact that we wanted to stick
fairly close to the coastline to make the journey shorter. Sailing about a mile
offshore, we were subjected to fairly severe williwaws (winds accelerating off
the land for non-sailors reading this) gusting 35kts down the steep hillsides
just north of Bream Head. The sudden heel of the boat from these gusts elicited
a few nervous squeals from myself and prompted us to put the third reef in our
mainsail for the second time only on the entire trip. With the third reef in the
mainsail we felt a lot more comfortable with a lot less heel of the boat. On
the plus side, being close to land with a offshore wind meant we had virtually
no sea to deal with.</span></div>
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had a fairly quick sail up the coast to Tutukaka Harbour, taking about 3 hours.
I have to say I was a little disappointed with Tutukaka Harbour. It was pretty
enough but we have definitely had much more spectacular anchorages and there
was only one short walk out to the lighthouse on the peninsula to do. I guess
the main appeal of Tutukaka is as a gateway to the Poor Knights Islands marine
reserve. Unfortunately the anchoring around Poor Knights is not so good for
yachts and best saved for calm weather (which we didn’t have). We stayed two
nights in Tutukaka so we had one full day there and then continued northwards
up the coast to Whangamumu Harbour while we still had decent wind to eat up the
miles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whangamumu
Harbour was a beautiful anchorage and is the site of an old whaling station.
It’s also only a few miles south from Cape Brett, and therefore a short hop
around to the Bay of Islands, our final destination. The weather for the last
stretch of coast into the Bay of Islands was fine and sunny with light winds.
We had a very slow sail up to Cape Brett with our spinnaker billowing out in
front of us, but we were reluctant to turn on the engine for the final few
miles. Reaching the Bay of Islands has been our goal for the last five months,
and is a major milestone and one of the biggest highlights of this trip. We
both felt elated that we had finally arrived after the many months and miles of
sailing, but also a little sad as it signalled that the end of our trip is
near. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Many
of the yachts milling around the Bay of Islands at the beginning of May were
waiting for good weather conditions to depart for the Pacific Islands, leaving
winter in New Zealand behind them. We were more than a little jealous that we weren’t
preparing to set sail for more tropical climates too. But in the end reason won
through, and we rationalised that both the boat and us were not prepared and
equipped to make the journey this year. We’ve learnt so much during our coastal
journey over the past few months; we’ve gone from complete novices to feeling
like bonafide sailors. Still, we feel we’ve got a little more learning to do
before we could take on the challenge of offshore sailing. In the meantime we’ll
do our best to cherish our last few weeks on Desolina in the Bay of Islands
before we put her to bed for the winter and head back to work.</span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-50477462044773570122015-05-03T23:58:00.003-07:002015-05-03T23:58:46.583-07:00Sailing Gadgets (by Dave)<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So this will be the first post written by me (Dave). For those of you that know me well, I do have a bit of an inner geek, so this post is going to be of a technical nature. There are lots of opportunities to geek up a boat, and I thought I would go through some of the gear we have on Desolina that we have found particularly useful, and others that have turned out to be less useful than we first thought.<br /><br /><b>Electricity</b><br /><br />We don’t use a huge amount of power on board, but it does run quite a few key systems so it’s important to make sure we always have enough of the stuff. When we bought the boat, the previous owner had recently installed 4 new batteries to supply power to all the gadgets (440Ah in total, with a separate battery just for starting the engine). We have a big inverter to supply the boat with AC power, although we very rarely use it. The majority of power use is DC, and is mostly made up of:<br /> </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Running the fridge 24/7 to keep the beers cold</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Charging our laptop, phones, iPad and Kindles – including watching a film most nights on the TV now the days are getting shorter.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lights, fans and water pump</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Navigation and VHF</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />To keep on top of our energy uses, we use a bunch of solar panels (210W) and the engine alternator (80A) to charge the batteries. The solar panels have been great, and overall probably supply us with most of our power. Certainly in the middle of summer we could stay on anchor for days with the solar panels keeping pace with our power use. We love not having to run the engine at anchor but now that summer is fading and we have less sunlight each day, we find after a couple of days we need to go for a motor to top up the batteries. For out-of-summer cruising I can really see the benefit of a wind turbine… Perhaps my next Christmas present Ruth?</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have four solar panels mounted on our bimini. Two solid ones at the rear, and two flexible ones in front which we bought to help keep the weight down. These are all wired into a MPP controller (fancy pants charging system)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b>Navigation</b><br /><br />The boat came with a couple of handheld GPS’s, an older chart plotter with radar, and a bunch of instruments that worked sporadically. Before we left Wellington, we made quite a few upgrades to the instruments. We put in a Raymarine i70 display with all new wind/speed/depth/temperature transducers (sensors). This has been really useful, and when at anchor we always set shallow and deep depth alarms to help warn us if we’ve dragged the anchor, as well as a wind alarm to warn us if the wind gets up in the night.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our new i70 display next to the old ones. The i70 can be programmed to show any data that is available to it on the network. The screen shown is dispaying the apparent wind speed and angle, depth and speed.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />The old chart plotter that we have works fine, but we don’t have any of the NZ charts on it as they’re quite expensive. So for navigating on Desolina we have the following:<br /></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A little netbook computer (eee 900) with Navigatrix and OpenCPN</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our MacBook with OpenCPN</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">iPhone and iPad with SeaIQ</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://www.navigatrix.net/" target="_blank">Navigatrix</a> and <a href="http://www.opencpn.org/" target="_blank">OpenCPN</a> are both great free packages, and the <a href="http://www.seaiq.com/" target="_blank">SEAiq</a> app is only $40 (and the only app that allows you too use your own charts instead of buying them for a premium). With all of these we use the free marine charts from <a href="http://www.linz.govt.nz/sea/charts/nzmariner-official-raster-navigational-charts-rncs" target="_blank">LINZ</a>. We used to always have the netbook running when we were sailing, and connected up to our TV screen, which we could quickly turn on whenever we wanted to check our position. The netbook is also wired into our instruments and AIS (more on that later), as well as our wifi onboard so we have all the information we could ever want. Recently however, we’ve found that we’re using the netbook less and less and predominantly using just an iPhone with the SeaIQ app for checking our position when out sailing. For journey planning we normally use OpenCPN on the MacBook. We’ve found the iPhone is so much easier to use as we just keep it in a pocket and can have a quick check of our position really quickly. Even when navigating through tight passages we’ve found even with the phone’s small screen it’s fine.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">OpenCPN running on our TV screen, powered by the netbook which is safely hidden away under the shelfs on the left. OpenCPN is also re-transitting all the data to the wifi which is picked up SEAiq on the iPad and iPhone. Major geek points.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br />And of course we have all the paper charts (bear in mind that these are exactly the same as the digital copies we have) for where we’re sailing but come on, who uses those anymore!<br /><br />Two things that I had never used before (or heard of for the latter) are radar and AIS. For the uninitiated, AIS or Automatic Identification System, is a system that uses VHF radio to transmit a ship's position (as well as speed, call-sign and dimensions) and is mandatory for all large vessels. We don’t have an AIS transmitter, but our VHF radio can receive signals from other boats. This means that from either the VHF screen, or the computer if we have it running, we can see the positions of all the big ships around us and can see if we’re going to get close to any of them. When going through tight passages with blind corners, at night, or in a busy harbour, AIS is awesome. The main VHF unit is down below at the chart table, but we have a remote unit for it that has a small screen which displays the AIS targets like on a radar screen and we keep this up in the cockpit so we can quickly check on nearby vessels.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a screenshot of OpenCPN whilst connected up to the boat instruments (showing wind and depth in the right) and the VHF radio showing the AIS targets. The day we took this we were heading towards Opua and the line of boats you can see passing in front of us was the ICA rally.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />Radar as well is something that I now would never venture too far without. It’s proved invaluable when sailing in poor weather or at night. Our radar screen is on the binnacle (where the steering wheel is...) so you can only see it when you’re stood behind the wheel. This has been great when manoeuvring at close quarters, for example leaving an anchorage before sunrise, or entering a marina at night, but is a bit of a pain when sailing along with the autopilot engaged, like during night passages. On nights we’re normally huddled under the dodger at the front of the cockpit and if we want to check the radar, we have to scramble around the wheel to the back of the cockpit. Moving the radar screen to under the dodger would have its advantages. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our iPad running SEAiq with GPS and AIS data from the boat wifi along side our radar. For those with a keen eye, you can see the AIS target we have just passed on the iPad, and its radar return (yellow blob at the 5 o'clock position on the second ring from centre)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><b>Autopilot</b><br /><br />Our autopilot is called Geoffrey (aka Raymarine ST5000+). Why you would go sailing for more than a few hours with a shorthanded crew without a Geoffrey is beyond me. Who wants to sit at the helm steering in a straight line for hours on end! We have a small unit attached directly to the wheel, but it’s powerful enough to sail us in most conditions. Geoffrey does struggle a bit in big waves but apart from that has been an essential third crew member. He’s also clued up on what the wind’s doing, so can sail us on a constant wind angle which has been a lot more useful than I first thought. Coming up the East coast we were going into headwinds a lot more than we would have liked, but Geoffrey did a very nice job of keeping the boat on a perfect angle to the wind and thus keeping the sails at their optimum; a lot better than we could do after sailing nonstop for several days! He also sounds a little alarm if the wind direction changes too much to warn you that you’re now potentially sailing off course.<br /><br />We’ve also got Alfred, a wind vane steering system (Cape Horn) that uses the power of the wind to keep the boat on course. Alfred is a bit of a dark horse and has so far been reluctant in his helming duties. The mystical art of wind vane steering has so far eluded us (although we haven’t tried all that much), and at-the-touch-of-a-button Geoffrey has always been the go to helmsman. I suspect Alfred would be much more useful out in the deep blue with more constant winds and where a little weaving in course wouldn’t end in ship wrecking.<br /><br />I’ve quite enjoyed learning about marine electronics and it’s quite satisfiying when they all work together (for anyone contemplating doing DIY marine electronics, the key phrase is NMEA 0183, which is the “language” most of the devices use). But of course all electronics can suffer in the marine environment. Our Macbook being the latest fatality. I think the hard disk finally had enough of being constantly moved around! I’m currently writing this blog post up on our little netbook, which although is about twice the age of the Mac, has handled life afloat quite well!</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></div>
Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-87084441210587051152015-04-23T22:26:00.001-07:002015-04-23T23:06:03.831-07:00The Barrier<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’ve spent the last 12 days enjoying Great Barrier Island. Since
the clocks changed at Easter the days are noticeably shorter, with sunset just
after 6pm and the weather has also gotten noticeably cooler. We’ve been putting
our jeans, jumpers and socks on in the evenings for the first time in a few
months. Although the weather has been very showery over the last week, we’ve
had enough dry spells to get out and explore the island.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Port Fitzroy harbour, Great Barrier</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent the first few nights anchored in Smokehouse Bay, which is a
very popular anchorage with boaties.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As
the name suggests, there is a smokehouse on shore to smoke fish, a bathhouse
with water heated from a wood burner, and sinks with old-fashioned laundry
presses. The facilities were pretty rustic but it was a treat to have a hot
bath. They were kindly donated by the Webster Family for visiting boaties and
they rely on donations to assist with their upkeep.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bathhouse, with woodburner at Smokehouse Bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Doing the washing old school</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent several nights at Smokehouse Bay sheltering from the southwesterly
gales that blew through on our first few nights at Great Barrier. The anchoring
in Smokehouse is in deep water and it was the first time our anchoring skills
were really put to the test. We’ve got an oversized Rocna anchor, which is
reputedly very good, with 60 metres of new chain and another 60 metres of nylon
rope spliced to the end of the chain. We also installed a new anchor winch
(windlass) just before we left Wellington. For the first time on this trip we
have frequently been letting out all 60 metres of chain and getting into the
rope section having anchored in 10+ metres of water and having 30 knots of wind
blow through the anchorage. We were very glad for the electric windlass as
pulling up 60 metres of chain without it would have been a mission!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A large part of the island is owned and managed by the Department of
Conservation, and there is an extensive network of walking tracks to explore.
Unfortunately a few of these are still closed after storms in June 2014, the
effects of which can still clearly be seen with the amount of forest debris
strewn all over. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storm debris still evident along the tracks</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More storm debris</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We managed to do quite a few walks from anchorages in Port
Fitzroy harbour, the best of which was a 3 hour return from Kiwiriki Bay up to
the Maungapiko lookout which had spectacular views over Mt Hobson and the east
coast of the island. We also rented a “dent” for the day courtesy of North
Barrier car rentals to allow us to explore more of the island.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from the Maungapiko lookout</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our rent a "dent" for the day</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The east coast
has beautiful sandy beaches but is very open to the elements and so best not
explored by sailboat except in the calmest conditions. It was great to have the
car for the day and access some of the walking tracks that are not along the
coast. We walked up to the viewpoint in Windy Canyon, which was quite dramatic
and true to it’s name, very windy.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Viewpoint at Windy Canyon</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of coast from Windy Canyon</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also walked to the natural hot springs
that were very stinky and sulphurous, but pretty novel, as we have only been to
commercial hot springs in New Zealand before. We’ve also noticed a lot more
birdlife on the island than on the mainland including seeing plenty of Kakas
(native woodland parrots) and a Morepork (Ruru – native owl) on our ramblings.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bradshaw Cove, Kaikoura Island, our anchorage for our last night at Great Barrier</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Later in the week, we went back to Kiwiriki Bay, as it was such a
picturesque anchorage, surrounded by cliffs and forest, plus our guidebook
claims that “the kelp beds on the coastline here can produce Snapper up to 6kg,
which can be a fisher’s lifesaver in bad weather.”</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’ve not had the best fishing track record
on the trip so far, but the description in the guidebook sounded promising so
we decided to give it a go. We must have spent a good hour, if not two, dinghy-ing
around the bay trying to identify where these legendary kelp beds and giant
Snapper were, without success. Eventually we gave up, went back to the boat and
lazily chucked a line off the back “just in case”. It was a nice evening so we
cracked open a nice bottle of red and some cheese we had been saving for a
treat, and boom, fish on the line. We reeled it in to find a nice sized Snapper
on the end and Dave cooked it up in a delicious curry for dinner. This just
confirms my suspicions that there is no skill involved in fishing, only luck,
well at least for us anyway!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing on the swing at Bradshaw Cove</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On one of our last nights at Great Barrier we were joined in Port Fitzroy
harbour by a tall ship (Spirit of New Zealand) and a New Zealand naval warship.
They both made for quite a spectacular sight! We’ve since left Great Barrier
and are now tucked up at Whangarei Heads waiting for some northeasterly gales
to blow through. The weather at this time of year is definitely a lot less
settled than it has been in the past couple of months. Winter is coming.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Naval Ship, in Port Fitzroy near Smokehouse Bay</td></tr>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-83209655495561215872015-04-12T23:04:00.000-07:002015-04-14T23:37:45.418-07:00Easter at Kawau Island<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After our week in the Coromandel and my mum’s departure, we packed
up the boat again and set sail for Kawau Island. Unfortunately we were on a
timeframe and there wasn’t much wind so we motored most of the way there. We
had previously visited Kawau Island, and having met the owners of the boating
club there, agreed to return for Easter weekend to help out. The boating club
was in disrepair but had been taken over six month’s previously by David and
Robyn who have turned the place around. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first shift was for the Thursday curry
night, which is very popular with the locals, and rightly so having
tasted Derek the chef’s amazing red beef curry and lamb shank curry. We did
five days work over the Easter weekend, serving drinks at the bar, waitressing
and helping out in the kitchen. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dave, David, Robyn and me outside the boat club</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bon Accord harbour was packed with boats over
the long weekend, and we were blessed with gorgeous sunny weather, which no
doubt accounted for the 400 or so boats anchored there. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were glad that we were able to use a
mooring in Smelting House Bay as we were tucked well into the bay away from the
worst of the crowds and we didn’t have to worry about other boats anchoring too
close to us while we were working. We did hear about some other boats getting
their anchor chains tangled due to the number of boats packed into the harbour.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from our mooring in Smelting House Bay after the Easter crowds had gone.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the end of the Easter weekend we had some friends from the UK, Anna
and Brad, who are currently working in Auckland, visit us for a night. We had a
good couple of days together, circumnavigating Kawau Island and doing some of
the local walks. Neither of them had done much sailing before but I think they
enjoyed learning the ropes while they were with us.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Anna and Brad getting to grips with sailing Desolina</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We found some dinosaurs on our walk...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But they were only little</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Anna and Brad left we started to plan our crossing to Great
Barrier Island. We wanted to stock up the boat on food, water and fuel as it
had been a week since we left the marina. We were able to put in an order
through the boating club to have some fresh fruit and vegetables delivered to
the island and the club itself sells a few key essentials like milk. They also
have fuel and water at the dock outside the boating club so we thought we were
sorted. Unfortunately, the day before we planned to leave the boating club
realised that they were virtually out of water after the high demands put on
their well during the Easter weekend. They were forced to ration water to the
bare minimum so were no longer able to fill our tanks there. Fortunately after
asking around and checking our guidebook we found there were a couple of places
we could get water on Great Barrier Island.</span></div>
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strong winds and rain showers so we were watching the weather quite closely for
a good opportunity to make the crossing. We departed Kawau on the Saturday
morning and had a very fast sail across to Great Barrier with 20-25kts of
southwest winds behind us. We thought the crossing would take us around 6 hours
but we ended up doing it in 4.5 hours instead with reefs in both the mainsail
and headsail. We arrived at Great Barrier with only a few litres of water left
in our tanks. We pumped out the remaining fresh drinking water from our main
tanks into small jerry cans and filled our tanks with stream water that was
available from the wharf in Port Fitzroy. Unfortunately it’s probably not safe
for drinking without boiling, so we’re glad to have a separate safe supply of
drinking water to save on the gas. We’re now hunkered down in Smokehouse Bay
for a few days waiting out the worst of the southwest gales and thundery
showers that have been coming through. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-74252401496692063092015-03-30T14:37:00.000-07:002015-04-11T00:24:14.803-07:00A week on land in pictures<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a fantastic week in the cottage we rented in the Coromandel. Rather than write another long blog post I thought I'd document our week on land in pictures instead. Here are a few highlights from the week...</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stunning Coromandel Kauri forest off the 309 road</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Burning our bums at Hot Water Beach - the thermal spring water is about 60 degrees celsius</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We finally managed to dig a decent pool after the massive breaking waves subsided a little - we had to build ourselves a good breaker wall though</td></tr>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-43919574985713727242015-03-22T17:05:00.000-07:002015-04-03T14:34:00.868-07:00Cruising the Hauraki Gulf<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After my mum joined us on the boat we spent two weeks cruising the
nursery waters of the Hauraki Gulf. My mum had not done much sailing before and
her only experience prior to joining us had been a weekend sailing on the North
Sea during which she spent most of the time in the bottom of the cockpit
feeling seasick. I was keen to remedy her past experience and show her a good
time sailing in New Zealand. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After spending a night on the boat in the marina to acclimatise and
get over the worst of the jet lag, we set sail for Waiheke Island, an easy 15
mile and 3-4 hour sail. The conditions were ideal for an introductory sail with
a flat calm sea and variable 10kts of wind, and my mum enjoyed helming which
was a good way to take her mind off any potential seasickness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sailed to Oneroa Bay, which is one of the
most popular anchorages on the northern side of Waiheke Island. The bay was
busy, but not crowded and had a nice long stretch of beach, which was perfect
for a morning walk. The beaches on Waiheke had some of the most beautiful
shells I’ve seen the entire trip. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent two nights at the Oneroa Bay anchorage relaxing back into a
slower pace of life after the hectic trip up the East coast. Dave even caught
us fish for dinner after considerable effort chasing a large school of fish
around the bay in the dinghy (note: we still have mastered this fishing
malarkey). After leaving Oneroa Bay we sailed around the western end of Waiheke
to Rocky Bay on the southern side of the island. From Rocky Bay we took the
dinghy ashore to Whakanewha Regional Park where there were some beautiful
beaches and walking tracks in the bush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had arranged to visit some friends who have recently moved to
Auckland so, after a few nights at Waiheke, we set sail toward the city, stopping
off overnight at a little sand spit island, and DOC nature reserve, called
Motuihe Island. The island was used as a quarantine zone for migrants in the
1800s. We had a perfect sail into Auckland on the Friday morning and even
managed to get our spinnaker out for the first time ever! This was pretty
exciting for us but we weren’t sure whether we had packed it correctly and were
a little worried about ropes getting tangled when we hoisted it. However,
everything went smoothly and we had a beautiful downwind run into the city of
sails flying our largest and most colourful sail. Another tick off our sailing
bucket list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We arranged a berth at Bayswater Marina on the north shore for a night.
All of the marinas in Auckland were pretty full at the time as the Volvo Ocean
Race was on in Auckland, and I think we were lucky to get a spot at all. The </span><a href="http://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/home.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Volvo Ocean Race</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
(formally the Whitbread Round the World Race) is held every 3 years and has 9
or 10 legs to the race and in-port races at many stop off cities. As it happens
the boats were doing a harbour race in Auckland that Saturday and there was an
extensive exhibition area set up with models of the boats and what the inside
crew quarters looked like – definitely more sparse than our living quarters on
Desolina! I also had a good time with my mum having a girl’s day out in the
city with some shopping, lunch and a massage. It felt good to be pampered in
civilisation after so many weeks on the boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our time in Auckland was cut short by the impending Cyclone Pam,
which was headed toward New Zealand after wreaking havoc in the South Pacific
Islands. We wanted Desolina to be safely tucked up in the marina when the bad
weather hit (apparently starting to come in on Sunday morning). Bayswater
marina had limited availability over the weekend, was not particularly
sheltered having only a floating sea wall, and was the most expensive marina
we’ve stayed in yet at $45 a night, so we decided to sail back up to Gulf
Harbour marina to weather out the storm there. We had relatively quick but
blustery 3-hour sail back to Gulf Harbour, arriving in the dark. One of the
marina staff came out to meet us on the dock and help us find our berth in the
dark, which we were very grateful for. I think we made a wise choice to stay at
Gulf Harbour for Cyclone Pam as the marina seems to be extremely well sheltered
from the wind. We only saw 20kts of wind in the marina at worst, while it was
blowing 40-50kts out in the Hauraki Gulf.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While Desolina was confined to the marina to wait out the worst of
Cyclone Pam, we took the opportunity to do the usual boat chores – laundry and
re-stocking food and water ready for the following week up to Kawau Island.
Kawau Island was a 3-4 hour sail north of Gulf Harbour and felt a million miles
from Auckland although its probably only about 30 miles from the city in
reality. The island is mostly privately owned although there is a DOC reserve
where you can get off and walk around. We also had a look around the Mansion
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mum with the giant redwood on Kawau Island</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Messing about on Kawau Island</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During our stay at Kawau Island we went into the Boating Club bar
and got chatting with the owners there. It turns out that they are short
staffed over the Easter weekend and they offered us some casual work for a few
days. So we’ll be back at Kawau in a couple of weeks to earn a few more dollars
for our cruising kitty. In the meantime, we’re off for a week in the Coromandel
on land. We’ve rented a batch for the week with my mum and are looking forward
to the luxuries of a house and exploring the beautiful coastline there.</span></div>
Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-4940544585830328822015-03-09T13:42:00.000-07:002015-03-18T14:05:07.880-07:00Tauranga to Hauraki Gulf<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our unforeseen stop in Tauranga set us back a
bit on our schedule to get to Auckland. We had planned to take a little bit of
time sailing up the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula and across Mercury
Bay. However, we left Tauranga on the Tuesday morning and needed to be in
Auckland by the following Saturday, which meant that we ended up skimming over
this section of coastline. We spent a night at Mayor Island again, and one
night at Slipper Island. However both anchorages were a bit bouncy in the southeast
swell coming across the Bay of Plenty. We left the anchorage at Slipper Island
on the Thursday morning and spent around 6-7 hours doing a slow sail up the 30
miles of coastline to Great Mercury Island.</span></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercury Bay was particularly beautiful, and the anchorage at Great Mercury Island was well sheltered with a nice beach and anchoring in 4 metres of crystal clear water. We had planned to stay overnight at Great Mercury Island on the Thursday and Friday nights and do the last leg around to Auckland on Saturday, however MetService issued a wind warning for the Hauraki Gulf over the weekend. Reluctantly, given the beautiful anchorage, we decided it would be sensible for us to sail to Gulf Harbour marina ahead of the nasty weather, which was forecast to be building to 25kts gusting 35kts from Friday morning onwards. In the end we arrived at Great Mercury Island around 4pm, stopped off for a few hours for a nap and some dinner and departed again at 9pm ready to do the 55 mile, 12 hour overnight sail to Gulf Harbour marina.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Leaving the anchorage in the dark was
interesting as there was still quite a lot of boat traffic, mainly fishing
vessels, to contend with. We were also a little nervous about sailing across
the Hauraki Gulf at night because of busy shipping route into Auckland Harbour.
We have an AIS receiver on board, which receives signals from other boats that
have an AIS transponder. The AIS gives us information about other boats’
position, speed and heading, and calculates our potential proximity based on
our own speed and heading and theirs. We found this really useful for
navigation at night, as it’s sometimes difficult to work out how close you are
going to pass to large tankers.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We rounded Cape Colville at the top of the Coromandel
Peninsula around 2am and started to head across the gulf. As forecast, the wind
started to build in the early hours of the morning, just after my 3am watch
started, and we made quick progress sailing at 6-7kts with the wind on our beam.
Once the wind really started to pick up, around 6am, I woke Dave up to help reef the sails as we started to head up
into 25kts of wind. Thankfully we made it into the marina around 9am Friday
morning, before the forecast 35kts kicked in. We were both pretty tired after
only getting in one 3-hour sleep each overnight so we put our heads down for a
nap as soon as we were safely tied to the dock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was nice to have a couple of days in the
marina to tidy up the boat and re-stock the fridge before my mum joined us. She
flew in from the UK late on the Saturday evening and we planned for her to catch the ferry from Auckland on
Sunday out to Gulf Harbour. Unfortunately I hadn’t looked closely at the ferry
timetable and only realised the day before that the ferry operates a limited weekend
schedule with only a 9am departure from Auckland on a Sunday morning. I felt
really guilty when I left a message at her hotel about the ferry times, and
instructions to catch the 7am airport bus to get her to the ferry check-in at 8:30am, after stepping off a 24hr flight and only arriving at her hotel at 1am that morning! To her credit,
she bounced off the ferry at 9:30am looking very bright eyed and excited to
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-65124245105331741892015-03-03T23:17:00.000-08:002015-03-14T23:24:36.910-07:00East Cape<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s been a busy couple of weeks since my last
blog post, and we’ve done more than a few miles in that time. Departing
Gisborne we had a reasonably fast sail up the rest of the east coast to East
Cape with a steady 10-15kt downwind sail, a moderate easterly swell and a
little current with us to help speed things along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had read that there could be some strong
rip tides and overfalls around East Cape, and there is a bank of shallow water
(Ranfurly Bank) about 15 miles offshore from the Cape, which can also build up
big waves. Keeping all of this in mind, we departed Gisborne mid-afternoon to
time our sail around East Cape the following morning as it got light, and also
around the time of slack water. This leg of the journey was about 80 miles and
took around 17 hours. Unfortunately the second leg of our trip after East Cape
was not quite so straightforward.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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After rounding East Cape we had a very
challenging day of sailing. Tacking into the wind, very close hauled, against
current, and in fairly turbulent sea conditions, we made very little headway
towards our next waypoint – Cape Runaway, which was only a matter of 25<span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> </span>miles away. I think “soul
destroying” was the phase Dave used as we examined our track on the GPS,
virtually tacking back and forth across ourselves as the current pushed us
backwards. We weren’t able to take the sails down and motor our way through it
as we only have a small engine and we wouldn’t be able to make any more headway
motoring against wind and waves than we were able to sailing. In summary we
spent 12<span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"> </span>hours
sailing and only gained about 20 miles in that time. Finally the winds dropped off
in the evening and shifted a little and we gratefully started up the engine and
were able to start motor-sailing more or less in the right direction. However,
our peace was relatively short lived.<span style="color: #c0504d; mso-themecolor: accent2;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From Cape Runaway we motor-sailed into the
night on a course for Mayor Island at the western end of the Bay of Plenty via
White Island, a distance of some 80 miles. Because of the awkward wind
direction we ended up motor-sailing much further north of White Island than we
had planned, about 40 miles offshore. As we approached closer to White Island
we could smell the sulfur coming from the volcano. During one of Dave’s night
watches, around 4am, he suddenly noticed the engine temperature had risen above
normal. That was the first time the engine temperature had ever moved, and he
immediately turned the engine off and woke me up. While Dave went below to try
to figure out what had gone wrong I went outside to mind the sails. This was
the last thing either of us needed after the day we’d had and on the second
night of our passage. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As Dave examined the engine it quickly became
apparent what had gone wrong - the heat exchanger again! One of the bolts
holding the heat exchanger in place had sheared off completely and as a result
one of the pipes had disconnected. Dave managed to do a temporary fix with some
cable ties and we spent the rest of the night motor-sailing and anxiously
checking the engine temperature every 5 minutes. Late the next morning we were
able to turn the engine off and sail the rest of the way to Mayor Island
arriving around 7pm on the Saturday evening after leaving Gisborne on the
Thursday afternoon. Exhausted from the journey we fixed ourselves some dinner
and fell into bed for a decent nights sleep.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sailing from Mayor Island back to Tauranga</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next morning we had to address the issue of
the heat exchanger and what to do about it. We chalked up the why of the
problem to an old bolt and over zealous tightening of said bolt when we
replaced the heat exchanger a few weeks ago in Havelock. But the how to fix it
did present a significant problem for us. The clearance between the engine and
the bulkhead is only about 10cm, a very awkward, small gap. We also weren’t
sure we had the right tools to do the job, and to get to the bolt we would need
to take off most of the cooling system. After some discussion we decided the
safest course of action was to head to the nearest marina, and marine mechanic
if we needed them. Luckily Tauranga was only 20 miles from us, but frustratingly
in the wrong direction from where we wanted to go. At least the wind was going
in the right direction this time and we managed to sail within about 200m of
the marina before having to turn the engine on. A few set backs and engine
issues are inevitable on a boat if you sail for long enough I suppose.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mount Maunganui at the entrance to Tauranga Harbour</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We really enjoyed our couple of nights in
Tauranga and if we hadn’t been on a schedule to get to Auckland to pick my mum
up, who was flying in from the UK, we would have liked to explore a little
more. Sailing into the marina alone was quite an experience. Mount Maunganui,
an old volcano that dominates the skyline and guards the entrance of the
harbour, makes for a very impressive entrance. Then the marina itself is within
the tidal flow of the estuary. We had timed our entrance for near slack water
but even so the marina said it would send Fred out in a small boat to meet us
to guide us in. Indeed Fred did come steaming up to us as we approached the
marina and hailed, “Welcome to Tauranga”. We were very glad for his guidance,
as even though most of the strength had come out of the tide, we still had to
crab our way diagonally down the channel between the piers and into our berth!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sailing into Tauranga Harbour</span></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fortunately, once in the marina, Dave was able
to find the tools he needed to extract the bolt end and re-bolt the heat
exchanger back into place with much less difficulty than he expected. Three
nights later we were back at Mayor Island again and making headway in the right
direction. Seriously, lesson learnt; when you replace an engine part, also
replace the rusty bolts holding it in place!</span></div>
Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-4945371415063124152015-02-24T15:10:00.000-08:002015-02-24T15:10:00.815-08:00Napier to Gisborne<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a great few days in Napier during <a href="http://www.hawkesbaynz.com/index.php/events/arts/art-deco-weekend">Art
Deco weekend</a>, a festival celebrating all things 1920s and 1930s. Napier
markets itself to tourists as the Art Deco Capital since many of its buildings
were rebuilt in the art deco style after the 1931 earthquake. The atmosphere
was fantastic walking around town with everyone in 1920s/1930s style dress,
vintage cars driving around, and WW2 planes circling overhead. There were also
lot of events on, both free and pre-booked.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously we were a little
unprepared on the clothing front as we didn’t know it was on until after we
arrived. However, we got Dave some braces and I managed to dig out some shoes
and jewellery that looked vaguely 1930s and we got dressed up for a night on
the town. Our swing dancing lessons came in handy for the evening big band
concert too. We caught up with our friends Helen and Luke, and some fellow
dancers from the <a href="http://fullswing.co.nz/">Full Swing</a> dance school in
Wellington, all of who were in Napier for the weekend of festivities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The marina in Napier is a few miles out from the centre, but there
are quite a few nice cafes, bars and shops in the area as they have developed
West Quay and <a href="http://ahuriri.co.nz/">Ahuriri</a> village. We were
particularly happy to find a good Mediterranean food market and gourmet
butchers just a short walk away. We stocked up on lots of tasty goodies that we
haven’t been able to get our hands on since Wellington.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a few of days of land-based fun we decided it was time to cast
off the dock lines and set sail for Gisborne. The journey from Napier to
Gisborne was an overnight trip of approx. 100 miles, taking us 22 hours. It was
a fairly unpleasant passage beating into 20kts of wind with waves and swell.
Because the boat was so bouncy in the wind and waves it made sleep impossible.
To add insult to injury I was incapacitated by sea sickness for the first time
on this whole trip, which meant Dave had to do more than his fair share of the
night watches. The approach into Gisborne harbour was easy and we didn’t have
to worry about tides as the channel is deeply dredged due to all of the cargo
ships that come in and out. There is a small marina next to the port, which is
adjacent to the town centre. We arrived exhausted, but joyous for finally
having solid ground under our feet again. We treated ourselves to a large pub
dinner after the long night and day spent getting here. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Life on passage - sailing with 2nd reef in main and full Genoa, rails in the water</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next morning another yacht pulled into the marina that we had
seen on our sail up from Napier. As we had passed them on our way, we assumed
they were carrying on further north. It turns out their journey was even more
arduous than our own after blowing out their main sail and arriving in Gisborne
much later that same night, after a very slow sail. They had to anchor outside
the sea wall in the dark and wait until the next morning before coming into the
marina. We’re planning to carry on into the Bay of Plenty soon and are looking
forward to spending some nights away from marinas. At $35 a night in Gisborne,
and $22 in Napier, the costs can soon add up after a few days.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-62311530881388260692015-02-18T21:15:00.000-08:002015-02-20T21:17:05.977-08:00Picton to Napier<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After a good week of watching the weather we finally got our window
of opportunity to sail north. We originally planned to sail all the way to
Gisborne, but after finding out there was a fishing tournament on and there
would be little room in the marina for us, we decided to stop in Napier
instead. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The journey from Picton to Napier was approx. 250 miles and took
around 55 hours. Of those 55 hours, 28 hours were spent motoring in no wind,
and the rest of the time was spent sailing into a headwind. The journey was not
without its challenges; weather, seasickness, fatigue, sailing at night, and
the challenges of doing everyday activities such as showering and cooking on a
moving boat. However, we planned for those challenges, which made a big
difference to our confidence and comfort during the passage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Being escorted across Palliser Bay <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We spent quite a lot of time preparing during our last days in the
Marlborough Sounds. One of the things we found difficult was knowing what
weather to look for in choosing when to go. We had a lot of piecemeal advice
from other sailors we had met but couldn’t find any definitive advice on what
weather to look for. Probably there is no ideal forecast but a variety of
trade-offs to be made depending on which winds you choose. We spent a lot of
time scrutinising the MetService weather forecasts and even decided to pay for
a weather routing service, PredictWind, to help us plan. We also spent time
checking the tide times for Tory Channel and the Cook Strait, and plotting out
our route with waypoints on both paper and electronic charts. Overnight we took
turns to do 3-hour watches. We also spent the day before we left cooking all of
our meals for 3 days so we only had to heat up food while on the move. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset on the first night as we rounded Cape Palliser</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We chose to leave Tory Channel in a dying southerly, the previous
days had been blowing 30+kts in Cook Strait. We headed out at 10am, two hours
after Picton high tide and timed so that we would not have too much current leaving
Tory Channel, and also so we would not pass through Karori rip at mid tide. The
forecast for the Cook Strait was for a 20kt southerly wind dying out so we had
our smaller headsail rigged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As usual we
had the short turbulent waves going around Cape Terawhiti and Sinclair Head,
but overall the Cook Strait was relatively calm with a little swell and a
moderate sea. We had a pod of dolphins join us across Palliser Bay, and they
kept returning to the boat several times to keep us company. Just before we
started to round Cape Palliser, around 10pm, the wind died off and we had to
turn the engine on and motor for the rest of the night. There is a large
lighthouse at Cape Palliser that is visible up to 26 miles offshore and another
lighthouse just a little further along the Wairarapa coast. It was really nice
to be able to see clearly where the coastline was during our watches on the
first night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The night watches were
generally uneventful, with the exception of some dolphins swimming around the
boat at 1am in the bio-luminescence, which Dave tells me looked spectacular – I
was sleeping.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Motoring along the Wairarapa coast in zero wind and zero swell</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next day we decided to swap our headsails from our smaller
headsail (100% jib) that we had used in the stronger winds in Cook Strait to
our larger headsail (130% Genoa) that would be more suitable for the lighter
breezes that were forecast for the rest of our trip. We had only ever changed the
headsails before while the boat was stationary in the marina. Hauling out the
large headsail through our front hatch, dropping the smaller headsail and
swapping them over, all the while bobbing around in swell, was a little more
challenging. Apart from wrapping the halyard around the forestay on the first
hoist and having to drop it again to sort the lines out, it went smoothly. Once
we successfully got the bigger headsail rigged, it was well worth the effort as
we were able to sail at a respectable 4-5 knots in light 10kt northeast winds
for the rest of the day. We also had some more dolphins come to visit us
throughout the day, which provided some relief from the general monotony.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More dolphins!</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The second night, Dave was on watch tacking us around Cape
Turnagain. It was a little unnerving as we tacked our way around the headland
with no lighthouse. It was difficult to judge how far away the land was in the
dark, and we were grateful for the radar and GPS. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At about 1am, the wind shifted slightly as I
was about to start my watch. With the two of us up and about we tacked the boat
and I sailed us for another hour until the wind died off again. I gave Dave the
fright of his life when I turned the engine on, forgetting as it roared to life
that he was sleeping in the back cabin with his head right next to the engine
compartment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was interesting to see the change in the coastal landscape on the
third morning, which was much drier close to Napier compared with the dark
green, rugged landscape around the south coast and Wairarapa. As we rounded
Cape Kidnappers the wind came back in and we had a nice 4-5 hour sail across
Hawkes Bay. The entrance to the marina in Napier is quite shallow and it’s
better to go in on at least half-tide. Thankfully our timing worked out well
and it was almost high tide when we came in. It would have sucked if we had
needed to wait for the tide after such a long sail. Unknown to us this weekend
happens to be the Art Deco festival in Napier so we’re going to stick around
for a few days to enjoy the festivities.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Finally on a beam reach as we sailed away from Cape Kidnappers</td></tr>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-92029276944551509882015-02-14T00:45:00.003-08:002015-02-14T00:45:44.430-08:00The waiting game<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After six weeks exploring the Marlborough Sounds and Abel Tasman our
time here is coming to an end. We now feel that we’ve seen most of what the
area has to offer and are looking forward to heading northward for a change of
scenery.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re both looking forward to the journey north with excitement and
nervous anticipation. The journey from Marlborough to Gisborne, around 300
miles, will probably be the most challenging stretch of coastline on our entire
trip. The weather between here and Gisborne is notoriously bad. The good news
is that we have plenty of time to wait for a decent weather forecast. The bad
news is that requires a lot of patience. For example, the Cook Strait experiences
a high percentage of days per year with gale force winds, which means there
could be a lot of waiting involved. In addition to the weather, we’ll have to
deal with a straight 48hr+ sail, and taking it in turns to sleep or keep watch,
something that we’ve not done before. We’re expecting it to be both a
physically and mentally challenging couple of days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, we’re making the most of our last few days in Marlborough. We
were joined by some friends, Helen and Luke, from Wellington for Waitangi
weekend, and had a great couple of days with them showing them how to sail
Desolina. We sailed out to Endeavour Inlet on the first day from Picton and
took them for a walk up to the viewpoint on the Queen Charlotte track
overlooking both Ship Cove and Resolution Bay on the second day. Luke brought
his drone and GoPro camera with him and we got some excellent aerial shots of
Desolina.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’ve also been exploring a few of the coves we
didn’t make it to last time around, mostly around Grove Arm. We had a nice day
at Lochmara Lodge for a spot of lunch and a walk. I would highly recommend Lochmara
as a place to stop off for a day trip or a longer stay, especially if you have
young children. The lodge has extensive grounds with sculptures and a wildlife
recovery centre. In particular, we had great fun feeding the Kakariki, one of
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-73059828347139118602015-02-11T21:52:00.001-08:002015-02-11T21:54:37.555-08:00Desolina and the Sea of Destiny<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ruth, sorry for lowering the tone of your blog ;)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Dave</span>Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-75646481091504013352015-02-09T00:21:00.000-08:002015-02-09T00:21:09.634-08:00It's not always smooth sailing<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I imagine quite a few of our friends and family have been a little
envious at some point while reading this blog (well ok, they’ve told me as
much), and most of the time, envy is probably justified. After all, why would
we be doing this if most of the time it wasn’t a lot more fun than sitting in
the office? But, I want this blog to reflect all of the realities of our
sailing trip and not just the best parts. So, here are a couple of things that have
happened in the last week that have not been so much fun. Admittedly, nothing
too terrible, just enough stress or discomfort to make me wish for a few
fleeting minutes that I was back on dry land.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sun doesn't always shine when you're sailing</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>On dry land, you don’t have
to worry about your home going walkabout</b></span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><b>!</b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anchoring is definitely both a science and an art. When choosing an
anchorage we must take into account the depth, the type of sea floor (mud,
sand, rocky), tides, wind speed and direction, swell, and our distance from the
shore and any neighbouring boats. In Abel Tasman, we also had to account for the
wind shift that happens twice daily due to the sea breeze. This meant that
Desolina would usually sit on the anchor during the day facing out of the bay
into the sea breeze, but swing around to face into the bay in the evening when
the wind dropped off. As the boat swings around the anchor, the direction of
pull on the anchor changes, and the anchor needs to re-set itself. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>The </i>Anchorage</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On one of our last days in Abel Tasman we left the boat to go for a
walk after sleeping the previous night on the anchor and then waiting for the
sea breeze to turn the boat around and the anchor to re-set itself. We assumed
all was fine as we didn’t notice the anchor dragging at all before we left and
the anchor had re-set itself all of the previous days without fail. However, we
got a shock when we returned to the boat later that day and found that our
neighbours had needed to secure Desolina after she went on a little walkabout
dragging the anchor behind her. We can only assume that on this one occasion, the
anchor did not re-set itself successfully and we didn’t notice any drag before
we left because there wasn’t much wind. We are incredible grateful for the help we received in this instance. We hate to think what the outcome might have been if we had been anchored alone in the bay. This incident has definitely dented our
confidence and no doubt we shall be double and triple checking the anchor in
future.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>On dry land you aren’t kept
awake all night by violent rocking (except maybe in an earthquake!)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have definitely had a few uncomfortable night bobbing up and down
on the boat. Probably the worst night we had was at Adele Island in Abel Tasman
the night before we had a 5am start to sail back to Marlborough. Neither of us
got much sleep that night as the boat lurched back and forth in the waves and
there was nowhere we could go to escape it. After a night of very little sleep,
a 5am start and seven hours of beating into wind and waves to get back across
Tasman Bay we were definitely two very tired and grumpy sailors. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But after all that’s said and done, to quote a cruising couple that
we met who were in their 80’s, <i>you forget the bad memories and remember the
good one’s, otherwise you wouldn’t still be sailing</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A short video of us going through French Pass to get to Abel Tasman.</span></div>
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<br />Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-48597846555954858112015-01-25T22:04:00.000-08:002015-01-25T22:04:35.794-08:00Abel Tasman<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a smooth day of
sailing from Catherine’s Cove on Durville Island to Torrent Bay in Abel Tasman
National Park. We were looking forward to the reliable sea breezes we had heard
blow across Tasman Bay in the afternoon after the fickle winds in the
Marlborough Sounds. Sure enough the sea breeze kicked in around midday on our
crossing after very little wind in the morning. We were promised a steady 15kts,
which we got. What we weren’t expecting was for the wind to continue building
throughout the afternoon to a gusty 25kts by the time we reached Abel Tasman.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crossing Tasman Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We left Catherine’s Cove at 8am and arrived at Torrent
Bay around 4pm. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About half way across
Tasman Bay we thought we had caught our second fish of the trip as we had been
trawling a line behind us the whole way across. Unfortunately it turned out to
be a Barracuda that we threw back. Barracuda are not recommended for dinner as
they can carry parasites. If you haven’t ever seen a Barracuda before they are
pretty mean looking with very sharp teeth. Dave wore his steel wire fishing glove
to handle it while getting the hook out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The passage through French Pass at the start of
the day was quite nerve wracking. French Pass is the narrow channel between
Durville Island and the mainland, which is the entrance to Tasman Bay from
Marlborough. This little passage has a big reputation and deservedly so. The
currents that run through French Pass are extremely strong, and we had been
told NEVER to attempt going against the current. We had to be especially
careful when we went through, as it was a spring tide, which meant that the
tides and currents were at their strongest. We went through the pass a couple
of hours before slack water so that we would have a little current with us to
speed us on our way. The currents at that time were still quite strong. That
morning was dead calm and the sea was flat as a millpond so we could clearly see
the currents running through the passage, it looked at if the water was
boiling. It felt more like running some river rapids than sailing at sea. As we
went through we hit 11kts on the GPS, which meant we had about 6kts of current
flowing with us. We had heard that small whirlpools can form in the passage
because of the strong currents flowing through, they definitely weren’t
kidding. As we passed through the narrowest part we could see whirlpools
forming on either side of the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swirling currents in French Pass</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the overall journey went smoothly
enough and we are now enjoying the impossibly golden sandy beaches of Abel
Tasman. We spent the first couple of nights in Torrent Bay at The Anchorage. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Torrent Bay</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a nice walk from the bay to Cleopatra’s Pool just off the Abel Tasman
coastal track. The bays at Abel Tasman are very tidal and the whole river
estuary floods at high tide. We discovered that we could kayak up the river
from the bay near high water and decided to go back to a good swimming spot we
had found on the previous day’s walk. The swimming spot there has a layer of
warm salt water trapped underneath a layer of VERY cold fresh water. We had
great fun diving down into the warm layer of salt water and then getting the
sudden shock of cold water as we surfaced.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">River Estuary at Torrent Bay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Swimming near Cleopatra's Pool</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since Torrent Bay we have spent a night in Bark
Bay and are now anchored next to Adele Island. Bark Bay was beautiful, with
easy shallow anchoring. Dave was able to dive underneath at low tide, stand on
the sandy bottom and reach up to touch our keel. The water here is also the
warmest we’ve had so far at 22c. We’re planning to spend a few more nights here
before heading back over to Marlborough later this week.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-6058185453011095422015-01-21T17:04:00.000-08:002015-01-22T17:05:06.907-08:00Engine troubles<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our first hiccup of the trip so far. A few days ago Dave did a
routine check of our engine water and oil. He noticed it had used some water,
but we didn’t think too much of it at the time and just topped it up. The
following day he checked it again and found that the coolant level had gone
down once more. It wasn’t a huge amount but it was unusual, as before now it
has never used any water, so we decided to investigate. That morning Dave spent
some time looking around the engine to try to see if the coolant was leaking
anywhere without much luck. When we ran the engine, Dave spotted a green plume
coming out of our engine exhaust straight away. He turned the engine off and
said “we’re going back to Havelock”. Can you guess what was wrong?<sub><o:p></o:p></sub></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An engine on a yacht is like a safety net. About 90% of the time we can
sail, but the other 10% we can’t for a variety of reasons. Some of the time
there is no wind, at other times the wind is coming from exactly where we want
to go, which can be just a hassle or the channel may be too narrow for us to
tack our way up wind. It’s in these situations that we’re very glad of our
engine. Not to mention that running our engine tops up our batteries, which run
all of our electrics including our navigational instruments, anchor windlass, lights
and fridge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking down towards Havelock marina</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Desolina has a small diesel engine that’s relatively simple and
extremely reliable as long as it has fuel, air and doesn’t get too hot. It’s
quite similar to a car engine, where there is fresh water, which cycles around
the engine to cool it. In a car this water goes through a radiator and air
blows past it to cool the water. In a boat engine our radiator (heat exchanger)
has salt water pumped through it to cool the fresh water. After the salt water
goes through the heat exchanger, it’s squirted into the exhaust box and pushed out
along with the exhaust fumes. What Dave saw coming out of the exhaust was the
green dye from the antifreeze in our fresh water circuit. This could only mean
one thing – that out heat exchanger had a leak. It was a slow leak but it could
become a problem if enough coolant leaked out and the engine overheated. It was
something we needed to get fixed sooner rather than later.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our spare heat exchanger</td></tr>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We didn’t want to risk draining all the coolant from the engine and
taking it to pieces to try to fix it while we were in the middle of nowhere, so
we decided to go back to Havelock Marina to get a boat mechanic to look at it.
This was really frustrating for us as we just came from Havelock a week ago and
it was in the exact opposite direction from where we wanted to go. We prayed
that we could either patch up our heat exchanger or use our rather old looking
spare as ordering a new part from Volvo could take a week to get here, plus it
would cost us a few dollars and take a sizeable bite out of our savings,
thereby shortening our trip.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since we discovered the engine problem on a Saturday and we couldn’t get
a mechanic over the weekend, we slowly made our way into Havelock, sailing as
much as possible and running the engine as little as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also had a couple of cloudy days so our
solar panels were not topping up the batteries as much as we would have liked.
Without the engine to charge the batteries we were running them quite low and had
to conserve power as much as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We do have to count ourselves lucky though that; we noticed the problem
before the engine overheated and caused damage; we were safely on a mooring and
not out at sea, and finally, that we were able to put our spare heat exchanger
on while we sent the newer one off to be patched up. We’re now setting off to
Abel Tasman on our spare heat exchanger, and planning to pick the fixed one
back up in Picton in a couple of weeks time.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-6850769313909992512015-01-16T02:05:00.001-08:002015-01-16T02:13:35.594-08:00World's End<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After leaving Havelock we spent a few
days in Kenepuru Sound. The bays in Kenepuru were some of the most enjoyable
anchorages we have had during the trip so far. The ambience of Kenepuru is
distinctly different from Pelor<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">us or Queen Charlotte. Most of the Sound is fairly
shallow which gives the water a beautiful turquoise hue and means it’s quite
warm for swimming.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had a good swim in Kenepuru Sound, but not with these Jellyfish</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Kenepuru we started to make
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Nelson. We really enjoyed the couple of nights we spent around Tennyson Inlet with
our friends, so we decided to go back to this area and explore a little more on
our way out. We spent two nights anchored in Ngawhakawhiti Bay, which came
highly recommended by some friends back in Wellington. Plus we couldn’t resist
sailing to “World’s End” which is the name for the stretch of channel next to
this bay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As coincidence would have it, we
bumped back into David on “Bee’s Knee’s” who was also anchored in Ngawhakawhiti
Bay on our first night there. We first met David and Megan in Mistletoe Bay in
Queen Charlotte Sound, ran into them again on New Year’s Eve in Resolution Bay
and Ngawhakawhiti was our third chance meeting. It was like bumping into old
friends!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ngawhakawhiti was a fabulous bay
with access to walking tracks. The only problem with beautiful bays surrounded
by native bush is that sandflies quite like hanging out there too. It’s a good
job we have some mosquito nets to cover the hatches, but somehow they still
managed to find their way in. I now have an assortment of sandfly and mosquito
bites despite my best efforts at thwarting them and liberal use of insect
repellant. They just seem to find me especially tasty (Dave has not been nearly as inflicted). Needless to say I have had a couple of very itchy and restless nights – the price to pay in paradise it would seem.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On our second morning in
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and slapping against the hull. Now, we have been startled awake once before by
a similar sound in the middle of the night, which turned out to be a seal
playing around the boat so we were quite excited to get another look at one
close up in the daylight. As it turns out, the sound was not a seal as we
thought, but a small group of Yellowtail Kingfish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now we have not yet managed to catch
a single fish on our trip so far, "surely this is our moment", we thought. Dave
dangled a line over the side of the boat with some bait on it. Nothing
happened. The fish were distinctly unimpressed by the bait and carried on with
whatever they were doing underneath our boat. Fail! So we tried a sparkly
orange octopus lure. Another fail. After waving the line around in front of
them for a while to no avail we decided to change tactics. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dave dug out another fish lure which
looks like a sardine and wiggles like a fish when you pull it through the
water. Now we had their attention! A group of Kingfish stalked the lure as Dave
walked the length of the boat dragging it through the water, like kittens
following a piece of string. But still they did not bite. Finally, in
a desperate attempt to get them to bite, Dave started to swish the lure faster
through the water and pull it up as if the sardine were jumping out of the
water. The Kingfish went frantic and suddenly there weren’t just a dozen of
them, but about forty in a foaming frenzy. Not much skill was involved but one
of the larger fish somehow got hooked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The triumph of finally catching a
fish was bittersweet. These fish were so beautiful in the water, part of
us (the former vegetarian in particular) wanted to throw it back. Before we
came away we thought we’d fish quite a lot, but when you are living in the marine
environment, and you see and appreciate all of the wildlife around you, it makes
you think twice before you take. We certainly appreciate our sushi all the more
for it.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-21492428275216157142015-01-10T17:08:00.001-08:002015-01-10T17:08:22.981-08:00Supply run to Havelock<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We parted ways with our friends a few
days ago; us to Havelock Marina to spend a couple of days restocking and
organising the boat, and them back to Wellington. We had a great week together
and we’re going to miss them a lot. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The route into Havelock Marina is
quite interesting for a keelboat as much of the channel approaching the marina
is very shallow and large sections dry out completely at low tide. The way in was
very well marked, but all the same we still felt a little apprehensive
navigating our way through the channel for the first time as our keel draws almost 2 metres
underneath the boat. We started to make our approach about two hours before high
tide, which seemed like a good time for us to go in as we didn’t
see less than 2 metres of water below the keel. However, once in the marina at
low tide, our depth sounder showed 0.1 metres beneath the keel. We were
practically resting on the bottom!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a fairly sizeable list of jobs
to do in Havelock – grocery shopping, laundry, finish putting up solar
panels, check engine electrics, fill water tanks, clean the boat, put dinghy
away, fill engine diesel, petrol, and gas bottle – but we managed to get everything
done in our two nights there. It wasn’t much fun being back in the marina after
spending nights at anchor in beautiful bays so we were very keen to get
back out as quickly as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We’re now spending a couple of
nights exploring Kenepuru Sound before we meander our way back up into Pelorus.
It’s funny to think we’re now only a couple of miles, as the crow flies, from
where we were anchored in Mistletoe Bay at Christmas. But it’s taken us quite a
few more miles and over a week to get here.</span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-68805259143329084502015-01-07T15:56:00.001-08:002015-01-07T15:56:34.405-08:00Queen Charlotte to Pelorus Sound<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few days ago we made the 30 mile journey
from Queen Charlotte Sound around Cape Jackson and across to Pelorus Sound. Our
cruising guide describes this stretch of water as “naturally exposed to all
winds” and representing “quite a hurdle to boat users”. We travelled in convoy
with some friends and had kept an eye on the weather forecast for a good
opportunity to make the trip around. This journey is made much easier with a
Southerly wind. The forecast on the morning of our departure was for Southerly 30kts
easing to 20kts late afternoon. Now, if we had been on our own schedule I don’t
think we would have chosen to go over to Pelorus Sound in such strong winds.
However, our friends were only over for 2 weeks holiday and really wanted to be
able to see some of Pelorus Sound before they had to sail back to Wellington.
If we didn’t go then, it would have been likely that we would have had to wait
another 5 days before there was another southerly wind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was quite nerve-wracking, as Cape
Jackson has a bit of a reputation for being a challenging headland with strong
currents and tides, but it was a good opportunity to test out the boat, and us,
in some strong conditions. Our guidebook recommended rounding the Cape between
the headland and the lighthouse, which stands on a rock about 500 metres out
from the shore, to avoid the worst of the currents. Now, 500 metres probably
seems like a fair distance, but in a sailing boat it felt like a very narrow
gap, especially with rocks extending out from both sides.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We found that Desolina needed very
little sail out going downwind in 30kts. We had our third reef in the mainsail
and a tiny hankerchief of headsail out and were averaging a speed of 8-9kts,
with a maximum speed of 10kts. Again this probably doesn’t seem all that quick
but it certainly feels fast on a sailing yacht. I couldn’t help but let out a
few shrieks when we surfed down a few waves – you can get an adrenaline rush
going 10mph on a sailing boat!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pelorus Sound certainly feels more
remote than Queen Charlotte. I’m not sure which I prefer yet. Certainly our
time here has been a little tainted so far by waves coming into the bays at night
and causing some uncomfortable rocking motions. So we (particularly me) have
not had a good sleep for a couple of nights. This is partly due to our choice
of anchorage based on the forecasts to try to ensure we’re in a sheltered bay
for the wind direction. However the forecasts for the coastal regions are a few
miles from where we are. Deep in the sounds the wind direction can change quite
a bit from the coast as it curves around landmasses. So an anchorage we think
will be sheltered, normally isn’t! We’re hoping that conditions will be more
conducive to a good nights sleep as we sail further into the Sound and we are
more sheltered from the coastal winds.</span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-79061187598863778272014-12-31T23:05:00.000-08:002014-12-31T23:05:32.950-08:00New Year's Eve<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today is New Year’s Eve
and the first really bad weather of the trip so far. We’re safely moored
in Resolution Bay, tucked out of the worst of the wind in the lee of the hill. But it’s blowing a gale out in the Cook Strait only a few miles away and most of the day has been torrential rain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To get our daily exercise, we made the short paddle to the
nearby beach after lunch while there was a gap in the rain. There is a
Department of Conservation campsite there, and a path which links to the Queen
Charlotte Track. We did a 3-hour return walk up to Tawa Saddle and got drenched on the return leg. I think our neighbouring boats must have thought us mad, paddling back to our boat in the middle of a downpour and gale winds.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We were expecting some
friends to join us on their boat for New Year at some point during the afternoon.
We took the handheld radio with us so we would know when they arrived. Shortly
after starting out on the walk we heard a Pan Pan (urgency) call on the radio.
We could only hear the Coastguard's side of the conversation and the vessel was
being referred to using its callsign. From the partial snippets of conversation
we could work out that there was a yacht with engine failure, which was being
blown toward the shore somewhere in the Queen Charlotte Sound. The Coastguard
then asked to confirm the yacht’s name, and after a few tense moments we heard
the Coastguard's acknowledgement of our friend’s yacht’s name. Needless to say,
we spent the next 30 minutes listening intensely to a one sided conversation
knowing our friends were in trouble.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most frustrating
thing was that we couldn’t hear our friends on the radio, only the Coastguard’s
response. We were well over an hour away from their position and would not have
been able to tow our friends out of trouble at any rate since their boat is
bigger and heavier than ours. We listened as the Coastguard made contact with
several nearby vessels and established how far away the nearest help was. The
first two boats who made contact were both 30 minutes away! But then, to everyone's relief, a
police vessel called in to say they were five minutes from their position. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The New Year we had
planned hasn’t quite worked out as expected, but at least we now know our friends
are safely back in port, and are looking forward to seeing them in 2015.</span></span></div>
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-1882421868644892272014-12-28T22:57:00.000-08:002014-12-31T23:08:58.565-08:00First nights at anchor<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have achieved a
cruising milestone and spent our first couple of nights at anchor in Mistletoe
Bay instead of using fixed moorings. The bay seemed like a good anchorage for the Marlborough Sounds as many of
the bays shelve off steeply and have rocky bottoms with not very good holding.
In Mistletoe Bay we were able to drop the anchor in about 10 metres of water
with a muddy/sandy bottom and had enough room to swing freely, rather than
having to tie a stern line ashore. We seemed to lay the anchor pretty well on
the first attempt and, after reversing hard onto the anchor to set it, we were
feeling pretty satisfied. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Desolina at anchor in Mistletoe Bay </span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a little bit
nerve wracking spending our very first night on the anchor, but by the second
night we were sleeping soundly. To ease our minds we did set some depth and
wind alarms on the boat instruments to alert us in case it started to blow
harder during the night, or if we dragged into shallower water. We got a bit of
a scare when our depth sounder jumped from 10 metres to 1 metre. However, we
did see quite a few large stingrays gliding around the bay though so we think
it might have been due to one passing underneath the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During our stay in
Mistletoe Bay we paddled ashore and walked up to Te Mahia Saddle on the Queen
Charlotte track and then looped back around to do a peninsula walk overlooking
the bay. It was good to get off the boat and stretch our legs – I was getting a
little cabin feverish! We were also invited over for drinks after dinner on a neighbouring</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> boat, Bee’s Knees, which had sailed up from Christchurch. The
owners, David and Megan were very good company and as it turns out David was an
Ocean Yacht Master, so it was nice to chat through a few of our plans with him.
Now we’re looking forward to exploring the outer sounds, and practicing our
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-52999134407093330402014-12-25T20:56:00.002-08:002015-01-07T18:52:08.931-08:00Christmas Day<div class="MsoNormal">
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introduced to Desolina. I wasn’t going to write much about us as this blog is
mainly intended to keep our family and friends up to date on our travels, but
for any readers who might have wandered across this blog by chance I’ll do a
very brief intro. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Brits living in New Zealand. We met 6 years ago in Manchester and married a few
months ago. Even back then, in our university days flatting in Manchester there
was talk from David of boats and pipe dreams of sailing the Mediterranean, the
Caribbean or even a circumnavigation. I didn’t take it too seriously back then.
We lived about as far away from the coast as you can get in the British Isles
and had little to none sailing experience or knowledge. All of this changed
after moving to Wellington. This was the first opportunity we had to do regular
sailing and it all snowballed from there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trip. It’s Christmas day. We’re sat on a mooring in Kumutoto Bay with glorious
weather and a gin and tonic in hand. Jealous yet? I’m sure not every day will
be like this, but for the first few days at least we mean to kick back and
enjoy ourselves. Life the past couple of days has been idyllic and basically
revolves around baking, reading and taking the kayak out for a paddle round
whatever bay we find ourselves in. The tranquility is interspersed here and
there by the sound of the drill on stainless steel as David tries to drill
another hole to mount the solar panels. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in summer a little odd and have to make an effort to recreate some of the
familiarity of a traditional British Christmas. This year that includes my very
first homemade Christmas cake (i.e. made by me and not my Mum or Gran), and a
roast chicken dinner (eaten late in the evening as it’s hard to feel like a
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Ruthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07871052158331501338noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4279931591773958589.post-85448690359250503082014-12-24T21:23:00.000-08:002015-01-07T15:59:29.570-08:00Introductions<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi. I'd like to
introduce you to Desolina. She's a 35ft Wauquiez Pretorien sailing yacht.
Desolina was born in 1984 in France, before being shipped over to the United
States at a young age. There she spent her childhood cruising the balmy waters
off the Florida and California coastlines. A few years ago, she set sail across
the Pacific Ocean for Australasia with her previous owner, who left her in New
Zealand at the end of the journey. This is how we came to find her, berthed at
Opua Marina whilst holidaying in Northland. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At that time we had
somewhat rudimentary knowledge and experience of sailing. We had been doing a
little research on what features we would look for if we bought our own boat,
but we felt we had no serious intentions to buy at that time - not until we had
a little more experience under our belts at any rate! Well, as you'll have worked
out from reading this post, we did in fact buy her (despite some misgivings),
and had her delivered to Wellington where we were living at the time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since then, we have
spent 18 months getting to know Desolina, 12 of which we spent living on her in
Chaffers Marina in Wellington. In that time we've made quite a few alterations
and improvements to her. For a start, I wasn't going to agree to live on her
until we had hot running water on board. Call me a princess if you like, but
working full time and living on a boat you have to have a few little
luxuries. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moving on board was a
good way to gain our sea legs and test out the practicalities of living on a
boat. Wellington is known for it's wind and oh boy we got some wind! Living on
board at Chaffers Marina can be like boot camp for sailors. In the first couple
of weeks living full time on Desolina, I suffered from land sickness and spent
quite a few days sitting at my desk at work feeling as if I had vertigo. I
still get sea sick (everyone does at some point), but I've definitely improved
a lot from those early days. Spending a few nights in the Marina in 60kts of
wind and those first few trips across the Cook Strait have set us in good
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living on board full time in Wellington, endless boat maintenance and upgrades
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