Sailing adventures on our Whiting 29
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 →
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 →
After resting for two nights at Catherine Cove we cast off from the mooring at 0817 hrs and headed down Admiralty Bay towards Te Aumiti / French Pass. Although the SE wind had eased off considerably from yesterday it was still a stiff 15-20 kts. Approaching French Pass As we neared the pass we noted... 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 →
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 →
Annual Nanni engine service by Isaac from TS Marine Ltd as per manufacturer’s recommendations.Drain and replace gearbox oilDrain and replace engine oilReplace impellerClean out water strainerReplace Racor 500 fuel filterReplace engine fuel filterReplace oil filterReplace engine zinc anodeReplace alternator beltCheck start and house batteriesEngine hours: 534 Power Cord I also got the boat power cord checked and... 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 →
Well the Metservice got it totally wrong this time with racing being abandoned due to lack of wind. Crew: Geoff, Grant, Murray, Trey. Forecast: Metservice: Southeast 20 knots. At 1000 hrs Geoff and Grant departed Chaffers and motor-sailed round to Evans Bay. We tied up on a pole next to the travel lift and attended... Continue Reading →
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