February/March 2023 I spent Tuesday, 21st February, at anchor in Sullivan’s Bay. A breeze came and went, but it never steadied sufficiently for me to think of leaving. I pottered about, did a bit of editing for the Junk Rig Association magazine and made a delicious meal of cabbage leaves, stuffed with kumara (sweet potatoContinue reading “Onwards to the Barrier”
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My ‘summer cruise’ finally starts!
February 2023 I spent Thursday the 16th pottering about and planning what to do next. When Roger came home from work, he kindly took me shopping and as well as provisions for FanShi, I bought ingredients to cook dal and rice for us, in Roger’s spacious kitchen. We discussed my broken batten and Roger wasContinue reading “My ‘summer cruise’ finally starts!”
Cyclone on the way!
February 2023 I have to apologise for the lack of photos in this post. There are very few people in my life to take photos for, and I no longer write commercially; somehow I seem to have got out of the habit of taking photographs. Moreover, in this case, I was concentrating firstly on gettingContinue reading “Cyclone on the way!”
To the Hauraki Gulf
February 2023 I slept a bit later than I’d intended, but was under way and sailing out of Otaio Bay at 0700. There was a light NE wind and I thought that the swell had gone down. I went south of the little islands to the west of Urupukapuka, pottering along quite nicely. However, asContinue reading “To the Hauraki Gulf”
FanShi - Wandering and Wondering: the Art of Slow Cruising 