Crew: Grant, Yarin, Murray, Meredith, Louise and Geoff. Forecast: Metservice: Northerly 10 knots developing in the morning then rising to 20 knots in the afternoon. PredictWind: N 10 knots increasing to 12 knots. Gusts up to 17 knots. Wellington turned on another beautiful day for the final race of the Barton Marine Winter Series. Grant and... Continue Reading →

Crew: Geoff, Anastasia, Murray, Vivien, Colin. Forecast: N 10 knots, rising to NW 15 knots around midday. Vivien and Anastasia met me on Halo at Chaffers and after rigging the sheets we cast off from our berth at 1038 hrs. The northerly was around 15 kts with some gusts up to 20 kts at times... Continue Reading →

Crew: Geoff, Anastasia, Murray, Meredith, Yareen. Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Northeast 10 knots developing this morning, then turning northerly 10 knots around midday. HW 1325 hrs. A beautiful calm morning for sailing! Anastasia took the helm as we cast off from Chaffers at 1035 hrs. I rigged up the No. 1 light genoa and shook out... Continue Reading →

Matariki Day, also known as the Māori New Year, is a public holiday in New Zealand, timed with the first rising of the Pleiades star cluster. The Evans Bay Yacht and Motor Boat Club pays homage to Tāwhirimātea, the god of wind and weather, with a mid-winter three-day sailing regatta. Day 1 and 3 are traditional... Continue Reading →

Crew: Geoff, Murray, Anastasia, Louise, Jason, Vivien. Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Southerly 10 knots developing in the morning, rising to southeast 15 knots about the south coast in the afternoon. Vivien, Anastasia and Jason joined me on Halo at Chaffers and we cast off at 1030 hrs to head around to Evans Bay. The southerly was... Continue Reading →

Crew: Geoff, Grant, Paul, Louise, Anastasia, Murray. Forecast: Variable 5 kts. We cast off from Chaffers just after 11 am and sailed round to Pt Jerningham in a nice 10 kts north-easterly breeze. As we entered Evans Bay, however, the wind died out and even turned to a light southerly as we tied up at... Continue Reading →

Crew: Geoff, Grant, Anastasia, Murray. Forecast: On Friday the Metservice was forecasting Southerly 20 knots gusting 30 knots but on Saturday morning thankfully they downgraded it to Southerly 15 kts so the race was on! We all met at Chaffers and after showing off to the crew Halo's new engine exhaust pipe and diesel heater... Continue Reading →

Crew: Geoff, Murray, Patricia, Malcolm, Meredith. Forecast: Variable 5 knots, northerly 10 knots developing in the evening. Sea slight.  Following the terrible storms of Cyclone Gabrielle up north the previous week, Wellington harbour woke on Saturday morning to almost flat calm conditions but dirty brown water. With just enough breeze for racing we cast off... Continue Reading →

Crew: Geoff, Anastasia, Murray, Malcolm, Patricia,  Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Southerly 10 knots developing for a time in the afternoon. High tide 1000 hrs. Saturday was looking like another great 'champagne sailing' day. All the crew met at Chaffers and after rigging the light Genoa No. 1 and setting up the spinnaker sheets and gybe... Continue Reading →

Crew: Grant, Nina, Anastasia, Patricia, Geoff. Forecast: Northerly 15 knots, rising to 20 knots this morning.  Low tide 1100 hrs. We cast off from the berth at Chaffers Marina at 1108 hrs and hoisted the mainsail with #1 reef and the No. 2 Jib. We did some practise sailing around to Evans Bay before tying... Continue Reading →