Sailing adventures on our Whiting 29
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 →
Crew: Geoff, Peter, Hugo, Anastasia, Nina, Grant and Murray. Forecast: Southerly 10 knots easing to variable 5 knots everywhere this evening. Sea slight. Fine. We cast off from Chaffers Marina at 1730 hrs in a beautiful evening and started rigging the No. 1 Heavy Genoa with full main. Positions were allocated, Peter on helm, Grant... Continue Reading →
Crew: Grant, Anastasia, Murray, Vivien, Colin and Geoff. Forecast: Northerly 10 knots, rising to 15 knots in the evening. Sea slight. Low tide 1352 hrs. I woke up on Saturday morning with mild cold symptoms. "Do a Covid test before you go sailing," says Graciela. I did the test which showed negative. All good! Grant,... Continue Reading →
The Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club is joining clubs and organisations around the world by running an event as part of the World Sailing Women's Sailing Festival. If a boat in the Rum Race has a woman on the helm for the race they will get a rum race result and a result for the... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Anastasia, Patricia. Forecast: Northwest 15 knots, rising to 25 knots gusting 35 knots for a time in the afternoon and early evening. Low tide 1355 hrs. On the morning of the race the forecasts weren't looking too good. On arrival at Chaffers at 9am it was already blowing hard with gusts over... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Anastasia, Patricia. Forecast: Northerly 15 knots, gradually easing to variable 5 knots in the morning. Southerly 10 knots developing about midday. Turning southeast 10 knots. HW 1428 hrs. Anastasia and Patricia joined Geoff on Halo at Chaffers Marina at 1100 hrs. The southerly breeze was very light so we rigged up the light Genoa... Continue Reading →
Saturday 22 October 2022 The Predictwind wind map showed New Zealand stuck in the middle of a large southern hemisphere anti-cyclone with strong winds circulating around the motu but almost dead calm in Wellington. The Metservice were forecasting southerly 10 knots, easing to variable 5 knots for a time in the morning with northerly 10... Continue Reading →
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