Monthly Archives: November 2015

Day Six to NZ – Oh Look! More Motoring!

By B.J. | Published November 24, 2015

Distance to Arrival: 146 NM Current ETA: 3:00 PM (+/-), Nov. 25th This will be a brief post, I’ve waited until later than usual to get it out there and I need to get to bed before watch. The wind hasn’t filled in much. The prediction is we might see Read On..

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Day 5 to NZ – Motoring, Motoring Now We Go…

By B.J. | Published November 22, 2015

Distance to Opua, NZ: 347.5 NM ETA: Some time Wednesday afternoon, 11/25/15 Still no wind. At one point we had a hint of some maybe wind late this morning when it crept up to six whole knots of breeze. But this was from the North, directly behind us. The only Read On..

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Day 4 to NZ – Bye Bye, Wind.

By B.J. | Published November 21, 2015

Miles to Go: 516 (Well past half way!) So what I’m thinking is that the front/trough/whatever we hit two days ago was moving a little than predicted. It caught us a day earlier that we expected, and has now disappeared a day earlier than expected as well. That’s my theory Read On..

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Day 3 to NZ – So THAT Wasn’t in the GRIB File!

By B.J. | Published November 20, 2015

Distance to go: 694 NM GRIB File: Short for “Gridded Binary”, these are the files that contain weather data that sailors download to predict future weather. There are several sources of them, but the most common are the “GFS” model and the “Euro” model, representing the source of the weather Read On..

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Day Two to NZ – Careful What You Wish For

By B.J. | Published November 19, 2015

DISTANCE TO NZ: 803.5 NM No wind, engine running. Keeping it slow to save fuel. There was wind, from the perfect direction, but it was less than eight knots. Usually more like four or five knots. Forget making it to New Zealand by Thanksgiving, sailing in that sort of wind Read On..

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Day One Back to New Zealand – Slow Going

By B.J. | Published November 18, 2015

So far, anyway, it hasn’t been a very fast trip. But we expected that. The weather forecast for the coming week shows a lot of “holes” – meaning holes in the wind, patches where the wind would be nonexistent. It’s not ideal, but we left anyway. In a perfect world, Read On..

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Day One Back to New Zealand – Slow Going

By B.J. | Published November 18, 2015
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For Want of a Hose…

By B.J. | Published November 17, 2015

So here we are, almost a week later, and still in Savusavu, Fiji. Last Friday it went according to plan. Mostly. We got up and had breakfast, went to the market, cleared out of customs and spent all but the last $1.60 of our Fijian money. We set off around Read On..

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Wrapping it Up in Fiji

By B.J. | Published November 10, 2015

The plan, as it stands today, is to leave Savusavu, Fiji for New Zealand tomorrow. That is November 12th, our time…that will be Wednesday the 11th back on the home side of the dateline. Fiji has been a blast, and yes I owe you all a bunch of posts. I’ve Read On..

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