Anniversaries

Hi everyone,
We thought we'd break our newly imposed rule of only emailing our blogsite to announce a very momentous occasion! It's Jim's 63rd. birthday - born in 1947; the same year that the Tiare's keel was first laid. The difference is that he reached maturity (although some might disagree with this!!) earlier than the Tiare. She wasn't launched until 1979 - 32 years later.
It is also Jean's (Gina's) 63rd. birthday on the 18th. of next month so for a limited time at least the skipper has a seniority advantage and should be shown the respect due to this happenstance - yeah right! Wishful thinking no doubt.
We are anchored at the moment in Horseshoe Bay on the SW corner of Motukawanui Is. in the Cavallis - an island group about 15 nautical miles north of the Bay of Islands. For those who are interested our position is latitude 35 degrees 00.692 minutes south longitude 173 degrees 56.331 minutes east. We are reasonably sheltered from the E-SE wind and it is a delightful spot with crystal clear water - a gem of the Northland coast. Gina has just put another banana cake in the oven to bake in order to use our rapidly blackening stash of bananas! Such fare is very welcome on coastal passages along with the ubiquitous cup of tea.
We are intending to leave here later this morning for Whangaroa Harbour - about 12 nautical miles further north. We are having a very leisurely cruise at the moment but will be doing some longer passages on our journey south in a couple of weeks. We're going to be even more decadent tonight because due to the great importance of this date in history we thought we would celebrate in appropriate style by having a meal at the Whangaroa Game Fishing Club or maybe the Whangaroa Hotel. Incidentally, it is also the anniversary of another event. This day last year was when we re-launched the re-named Tiare at Norsand in Whangarei. At that stage though we didn't have the rig in the boat and so we spent the next few months at the Town Basin Marina. However, it was important for the sake of the timber hull to have her in her natural environment.
We'll take this opportunity again to remind you of our website (tiaretaporo3.blogspot.com) and also to suggest that if you wish to urgently communicate by email, it might be better to email to our sailmail address (rather than post a blog) as we generally won't be able to access the website ourselves until we can pick up a wireless internet connection. It is possible for us to request access to specific websites through Sailmail but this is a little long-winded and probably not possible for us to post blogs in reply.
LOYSALUV
J & G(J)

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