Author Archives: B.J.

Things Falling off the Boat – Day 4 to New Cal

By B.J. | Published June 18, 2016

This seems to be the trip to find things that are vibrating apart or open. Yesterday we had the tack shackle come off the head sail. Today we discovered that the bolt that holds the Radar mount to the deck had worked loose. Fortunately, it too was found on the Read On..

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Day Three to New Cal

By B.J. | Published June 17, 2016

There’s not much new to report today. The conditions are about the same as yesterday, with 15-18 knot winds from the Southeast settling in. The sailing isn’t super fast, and it’s not straight at New Caledonia. We’re sailing about 30 degrees off of dead down wind, so at some point Read On..

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Day Two to New Caledonia

By B.J. | Published June 16, 2016

Day two was pretty uneventful. That is always a good thing. Motorsailing last night we shook two battens out of the main sail accidentally. It aeppears one landed on the deck, the other did not. It made a loud and alarming noise in the dark, but nothing was visibly wrong. Read On..

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Day One to New Caledonia

By B.J. | Published June 15, 2016

The first day to New Caledonia has been almost by the book from what we expected of the weather. Our weather forecasts predicted light to no wind the first night, and light Southerly breezes today. The expectation is that later in the trip the Southeast Trade Winds will fill in Read On..

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Catching Up in New Zealand

By B.J. | Published May 28, 2016

First, my profuse apologies for not updating this more.  I’ve been writing, but writing fiction, not blogging. That’s been taking a lot of my time. The good news is I’ve written something like 130,000 words since last July. But very few of those words ended up in this blog. Whether Read On..

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Rain Delay…

By B.J. | Published February 15, 2016

Brief post…very short. As of Monday AM the forecast in New Zealand was for rain for the next four to five days.  Which means the yard would be able to do little work, and we’d be sitting on the hard over the weekend and into next week. We decided to Read On..

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Hard Times in New Zealand

By B.J. | Published February 13, 2016

The day I have dreaded for weeks has almost arrived.  Tomorrow at 1:00 in the afternoon we’re pulling Evenstar for a week and putting her on stands on the hard. Hopefully no more than a week. We’re doing this for a few reasons, but mostly because we are getting the Read On..

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The Prodigal Post – Getting Caught Up

By B.J. | Published January 29, 2016

My apologies for not posting for nearly two months. It’s been busy since coming back to New Zealand, and I’ve been wrapped up in some other things that have kept me from updating the blog. And, as usual, when we get someplace we stay for a long time, blog updates Read On..

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Guest Blog – Sailing to the Channel Islands

By B.J. | Published December 18, 2015

Today we’ve got the first Guest Blog on Sail Evenstar. A few weeks back I was approached by Tom Ward, a marketing assistant at Marine Super Store in Portsmouth, England, about a guest post. Marine Super Store is a large chandlery with two stores in the UK and an online Read On..

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Catching up in New Zealand

By B.J. | Published December 17, 2015

Apologies to all for dropping off the face of the earth after our last post off the coast of New Zealand. One thing I did not mention is that while we were en route to New Zealand I got word from the states that my ninety-seven year old grandfather had Read On..

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