Monthly Archives: November 2014

We’re in New Zealand!

By B.J. | Published November 21, 2014

Evenstar is safely tied to the Customs Quarantine Dock in Opua, New Zealand, arriving at 1800 local time on Friday 11/21/2014. I’ll be back with more information, but thanks to all that sweated this one out with us!

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Oh Goody, More Upwind Sailing

By B.J. | Published November 20, 2014

Wind Messing With Us Some More For a while yesterday the wind disappeared and we powered up the engine and actually made progress directly the way we wanted to go ? one mile forward = one mile closer to our destination. How unusual. But it wasn’t to last, around midnight Read On..

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Toto…I Don’t Think We’re in Kansas Anymore…Day 15 to NZ

By B.J. | Published November 19, 2014

We’re in a new hemisphere. Last night around 3:30 in the morning we crossed the 180 degree longitude, and now our positions read 32° 49′ 28” South 178° 27′ 32” EAST That last is the big one. For our whole lives the longitude of our Lat/Long Positions have been in Read On..

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Day 14 to NZ

By B.J. | Published November 18, 2014

At the risk of sounding respective, the last 24 hours were a lot like the 24 before except a little less tippy and faster. That’s a hazard of being on a passage ? the days tend to blur together, especially when the weather doesn’t change dramatically. But we’re good without Read On..

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Day 13 to NZ

By B.J. | Published November 17, 2014

Baby Its Cold Outside Its been eleven months since I wore long pants, back when we visited the U.S. during the holiday season. Same for socks. With the exception of the few weeks around the holidays last year we’ve been in the land of palm trees, coconuts and balmy weather Read On..

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Day 12 to NZ – Wind Shift!

By B.J. | Published November 16, 2014

Not a huge wind shift, we’re still sailing upwind and heeled over on our ears, but since about midnight last night our projected course actually intersect New Zealand. Unlike the last three days, when our course intersected either Fiji or Antarctica. So for every mile sailed today we actually ended Read On..

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So it’s tomorrow already

By B.J. | Published November 15, 2014

Milestones ? The Date Line So we are officially over the International Dateline, although I must confess that this is because if jigs way East here to keep New Zealand all on the same day. So its now tomorrow here. What does that mean on Evenstar? Not much, we tend Read On..

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Day Ten to NZ – Not Much Changed

By B.J. | Published November 14, 2014

Well some change, nothing broke and we didn’t do anything stupid today, so that is something! However the conditions haven’t changed much. The wind is still from the Monstrous Pain in the Tuchas Zone, as I type this it has finally seemed to drop consistently below 22 knots. It is Read On..

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Day 9 – Where to Start

By B.J. | Published November 13, 2014

The Engine Troubles We didn’t blog about it when it happened, but we did lose the engine for a while last Sunday. We were concerned that a few people may be over worried about us if we made a big deal about it out here ? but after all the Read On..

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Day 8 to New Zealand – the Wind Zones

By B.J. | Published November 12, 2014

Well, we’ve got wind. Lots of it. But its not necessarily a ?happy? wind. There are some welcome winds and some unwelcome winds, all having to do with the characteristics of how boats sail. Cruisers have a very different attitude about some of these winds than racing sailors might. Racers Read On..

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