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Re:START in Christchurch

By Tweed Posted on January 31, 2017 Posted in Personal 6 Comments Tagged with Christchurch, Lyttelton, New Zealand

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

By Tweed Posted on November 12, 2016 Posted in Personal, TIMEZERO by Nobeltec 2 Comments Tagged with Falklands, horses, minefield, stanley

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 …

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Return to Valdivia

By Tweed Posted on September 22, 2015 Posted in destinations, Medical, Morgane, Personal, projects 2 Comments Tagged with Chile, maintenance, travel, Valdiva, windlass

I flew out of Cape Town on 28th August;  leaving the crew to make the final preparations to “Pelagic Australis” for her pre-season delivery trip to Stanley. Skip wrote about that on the Pelagic website here. Paula met me in …

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Is spring coming? – some news from Valdivia

By Tweed Posted on August 8, 2015 Posted in Morgane, Personal, projects 2 Comments Tagged with Chile, maintenance, Paula

An update from Paula. Here in Valdivia spring seems to be arriving, even though it’s very early. Maybe is el niño, I don’t know… still rains every day, but the days are getting longer, the birds are getting louder, and …

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Facebook

By Tweed Posted on July 19, 2012 Posted in Opinion, Personal No Comments

For some time now I have slowly come to realise that Facebook is not a very good way for me to communicate with my friends, family and followers. When I am at sea I don’t have any access to Facebook, …

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Deep into the past

By Tweed Posted on June 8, 2012 Posted in History, Personal 1 Comment

Today I’m off to Montevideo to start looking into church and public records to see if I can find any information on the marriage of my Great Great Grandparents. They were married in Uruguay in 1868 and had their first …

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