Sailing adventures on our Whiting 29
Crew: Marion, Anastasia, Patricia, Katherine, Murray and Geoff. Forecast: Northerly 15 knots, easing to 10 knots in the morning, and to variable 5 knots early afternoon. Southerly 10 knots developing late afternoon. The plan was to have a practice sail in preparation for the upcoming Waikawa Women's Regatta. After spending some time rigging the boat... Continue Reading →
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 →
Crew: Geoff, Graciela, Marcia, Hunter. Forecast: Northerly 15 knots. Sea slight. Marcia and Hunter are visiting us from the deep south (Manapouri) so we took the opportunity to take them out on Halo to experience some sailing and see Wellington from a different perspective. We cast off from Chaffers Marina at 1021 hrs. Graciela and... 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, Graciela, Paula and Eduard. Graciela and I were travelling to the UK to meet Aurelia, our brand new granddaughter and I decided to try out something I have wanted to do for ages, go sailing in Croatia. I researched the available charter companies, there's plenty of them, and eventually decided on Sail-Croatia which... 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, Peter, Malcom, Scott. After the excitement of the SailGP racing in Lyttleton we planned to sail back north on the Monday together with some of the other boats in the Island Cruising Association South Island Rally. This plan was thwarted however by a big weather system which came in bringing cold gale force... Continue Reading →
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