Sailing adventures on our Whiting 29
Crew: Geoff, John, Tunch. Day 1 - Nelson to Ship Cove We cast off from our berth at Nelson Marina at 0810 hrs. After stopping at the fuel jetty we motor sailed through The Cut and headed north up Tasman Bay in company with Annie. Another beautiful Nelson day! The LINZ Tide Table indicated French... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Graciela, Jim. Forecast: Light northerly early turning to southerly increasing to 20 kts later. Wellington HW 0932 hrs 1.7 m. We needed to deliver Halo across to Queen Charlotte Sound in preparation for our family holiday next week. Jim, who lives in Nelson, was visiting Wellington so we offered him to join us... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Funny, Leah. The forecast was looking good for sailing back to Wellington the Sunday after completing the Waikawa Women's Regatta. Variable 10 kts in the morning, developing 15 kts northerly in the evening. After checking the tide tables I used OpenCPN to put together a route plan: Waikawa to Wgtn 2024 -... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Jamie, John. Forecast: PW - NW 8 kts increasing to 13 kts. MetService: N 10 kts. The Plan The plan is to sail across Cook Strait in company with Grenadier and Tamerlane to be in Waikawa for the Women's Regatta the next week. After monitoring the forecasts over the past few days... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff and Tunch. Day 1 - Wednesday 24th Abel Coastal Forecast: SW easing to 10 kts becoming SW 20 in the evening. After the excitement of the Nelson Regatta we now needed to sail Halo back to Wellington. After verifying the forecast and tides I did a route plan on OpenCPN. I logged our... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Tunch, Murray. Day 1 - Wednesday 17th Cook Strait Crossing After monitoring the forecasts every day for the last week we decided today would be the day - a southerly dying out early morning becoming northerly 15 kts at the Brothers. The plan was for a leisurely sail to Nelson over three days to... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff - in company with Phil on Grenadier. After the Waikawa Women's Regatta we were optimistically planning to sail Halo back to Wellington the next day, Monday. The southerly storm put paid to that so all the crew travelled back to Wellington Sunday on the ferries or Sounds Air flights and we left Halo... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff and Peter Forecast: Light and variable winds. Route Plan: Departure set for 0600 hrs to enable us to arrive at Sinclair Head one hour before high water at Wellington. The tide will then be favourable for the passage across Cook Strait and through Tory Channel’s eastern entrance. HW Wellington is 0900 hrs. Peter... Continue Reading →
Graciela and I spent the weekend in Nelson and enjoyed a wonderful celebration of Dave's 70th on Saturday night. Great to catch up with Bob there too. Our friends Jim and Lindie kindly let us stay in their house while they were in the Abel Tasman. After checking the forecasts and tide tables we decided... Continue Reading →
My friend Dave who lives in Nelson sent us an invitation to his 70th birthday party. I replied that Graciela and I would love to come and half jokingly said we could sail there! After checking tide tables and watching weather forecasts it was looking promising for a Cook Strait crossing on Wednesday 9th: southerly... Continue Reading →
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