Monday 6 December 2010

Back to sailing

Certainly different from motoring through Malaysia!! We left Whangarei on Sun. 5th. and motored down the harbour in a glassy calm. Beautiful morning but no good for sailing. Anchored in Urquarts, then the next day a reasonably strong westerly sprang up. We left under staysail and reefed main, then at Bream Head deployed the Genoa and doused the staysail. Had an excellent sail up the coast from there full and bye on the port tack. Made Tutukaka in good time and anchored in 12' of water just under a little headland which gave us some lee from the westerlies which were still fairly strong. Sundowners and dinner (chops and roast potatoes and veges) and fell into bed exhausted after our unaccustomed nautical voyaging.
We are now in Tutukaka and it's Tuesday morning. Windless and flat calm. We are leaving shortly for Mimiwhangata - only 12 miles up the coast. Hoping we might get some wind to get the old girl going but not looking promising at the moment (0745). Still, we need to make some water and power. Right at this moment Gina is chasing a blowfly around the boat in between doing her Pilates exercises on the cabin sole - the joys of cruising!!
Cheers from us
Jim and Gina

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