Evening Star

Weather is easing along with the seas. we have been running with the Yankee, staysail and main up. Still making 6+ knots.

Rough seas but making 6.5 - 8 knots due to winds in the 15 - 25 knot range.

Early start today to get Bonnie and Bella off to the airport. Dad and I then had breakfast and a quick trip to the market with an extra walk to the Aisian market for me. Once I got back Dad did the fi ...

Today Dad and I walked to the various places for checking out of New Caledonia and did our final shop on the way back. Miso soup for dinner and making sure Bonnie and Bella are fully packed before the ...

Bonnie, Bella and I went for a walk to the market and on to town today as Dad had one of his board meetings to attend. The market was the emptiest that I have seen it. We walked all over town includin ...

Lazy day for most of the day and then in the afternoon we took a bus to Baie de Citron to have a swim in the roped off area and then had dinner at a Lebanese restaurant. The owner was the man who gave ...

More laundry today and now we are caught up except for things that are going back to NZ dirty. We also moved back down to B13 which is much more sheltered from the wind and is a starboard side tie.

It was washing day today after breakfast and we got the usual 2 loads through before we ran out of pegs. Dad disassembled cleaned and regreased the windlass while we were doing the laundry. After lunc ...

Today we all went to the market after breakfast, and then Dad and I went to both the oriental market and the supermarket over by the ferry quay. We were lucky as Dad started talking to someone in line ...

After starting the day with oatmeal, we ended up having to pull apart the anchor windlass because it kept slipping. Once we got the anchor hauled up we headed back to Noumea and were unfortunately pou ...