Evening Star

After a better night's sleep on my part (though the boat and land still seem to be moving) and dad having another good night's sleep. Dad went to the market early today as the butcher was closed yeste ...

After a broken night's sleep on my part and dad sleeping like a rock, we had porridge for breakfast with walnuts but no fruit. After breakfast we walked to the markets to restock fruits, vegetables an ...

We spent the whole night threading our way in through the barrier reef, following the recommended tracks to avoid coral, islets and land. Once off Noumea we dropped the mizzen and furled the Yankee an ...

We made our first New Caledonian landfall in the moonlight around 0300, a lonely rocky desolate Walpole Island. We should get to our next waypoint just south of the eastern fringe of the outer reef an ...

Overnight we had no extreme weather, but the wind did come around to the SW, so we started the engine and were powering int the weather. During the afternoon we tried to set the jib up, but the wind h ...

Today we changed our sail plan from just the man sail to the staysail and a reefed mizzen due to light winds and a predicted front coming through this evening.

We carried on under sail today and were beginning to get some changes of wind with calmer seas. Some light rain overnight.

Seas are still very lumpy. Shortly after dinner today one of the gimbles on the stove came loose and it dropped crooked in its well.

Today is checkout day. Unfortunately, even though we had a booking for a 9am checkout one of the officers didn't get there until 10am. Once we finished with the officials, we got a farewell from the m ...

Today was some final preparation before departure like flushing the outboard, tying down the little dinghy and topping up the water tanks. Have to refill one of the LPG tanks tomorrow as we ran out wh ...