To Fiji
I have been totally useless at keeping this blog up to date; so once again it is catch up time. The voyage from Tahiti to Fiji continued much as it was on my last update; fairly fast and boisterous. We …
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Maururu Tahiti
Monday 21 August 2017 16:25.60S 158:40.80W Well it’s been a while and I know a few of you have been waiting for an update knowing that we are back aboard “Morgane”. We have been a bit busy and haven’t had …
Re:START in Christchurch
I’m writing this entry from our home for the next couple of years in Christchurch, New Zealand. A city that is, like us, going through something of a re birth (or Re:START) after the damage caused by the 2011 earthquake.
Waiting for a New Zealand visa….. Zzzzzzz
We arrived at Stanley, in the Falkland Islands, late in the evening of 28th August after a fairly average voyage over from Cape Town. I wrote a blog entry for TIMEZERO by Nobeltec that covers the navigation side of the …
Tracking Pelagic Australis
For those who want to track our voyage from Cape Town to Stanley; you can view the boat’s tracker via the Pelagic Expeditions website via this direct link. Estimated departure is the morning of Wednesday 3rd August.
Cape Town to Stanley
A screenshot from TZ Navigator V3 showing some of our past trips (in red) and a couple of sketched in options (in blue). The forecast is long range one paused on 12 August and the little blue boat icon shows …
Time out in Cape Town
A couple of pleasant but busy weeks in Tahiti saw Morgane cleaned, maintained, and prepared to be left alone on the hard at the Tahiti Nautic Center . Morgane was very professionally hauled out and parked up by Yvan and …
Tahiti – paradise, not; and expensive to boot.
17:43.94S 149:19.65W Hao was a very pleasant stop but soon it was time to get moving again. We had been continuously watching the weather forecasts looking for a good window to move on to the next destination but as previously …
The Dangerous Islands
18:04.50S 140:56.60W The Tuamotus have been known as the “Dangerous Archipelago” in the past due to their very low aspect and poor charts. The highest point on Hao is recorded as being only 3m above sea level. The coconut palms …
Living off the land in the Gambier Islands
23:06.75S 134:57.98W Plenty of food lives on, grows on or swims around these islands. A good thing too as food in the shops is seriously expensive apart from the things with red price tags which are considered staples and are …