Tahiti to NZ Leg
They Have Arrived!! Safe & Sound & Tucked up in a Marina in Tauranga. They got in at 10:30 this morning (Friday)
08/10/09
Day:22, Position:S3633,E17723, Miles to Go:088, Wind Speed:20, Wind Direction:225
Weather:Mixed, Sea State:Moderate
The predicted change to NW has not happened yet but we expect it some time before midnight. Winds were forecast to abate to 10 knots but that hasn't happened either. Meantime we are motor sailing on course for Tauranga at 6.0 knots. Our fuel supply should hold out especially if the wind comes into the NW.
ETA is 1200 tomorrow. 87 nautical miles to go for respite and rest and recreation!!
Love
The Jolly Rogers
The predicted change to NW has not happened yet but we expect it some time before midnight. Winds were forecast to abate to 10 knots but that hasn't happened either. Meantime we are motor sailing on course for Tauranga at 6.0 knots. Our fuel supply should hold out especially if the wind comes into the NW.
ETA is 1200 tomorrow. 87 nautical miles to go for respite and rest and recreation!!
Love
The Jolly Rogers
They have progressed 18 miles since the last report and the positions are too close to seperate on this scale chart (click to enlarge)
07/10/09
Day:21, Position:S3618,E17842, Miles to go:0146, Wind Speed:25, Wind Direction:230
Day:21, Position:S3618,E17842, Miles to go:0146, Wind Speed:25, Wind Direction:230
Weather:Sunny, Sea State:Rough
Distance to go to Tauranga 146 nm straight line. Of course we will not be going that way.
We are 80 nm North of East Cape heading for North Cape at present (1930 hrs NZDT).
The wind was supposed to moderate to 15 kts this morning. No such luck but is has come down to 25 from 35. Meant to go NW tomorrow evening and then NE at 35 with rough seas. What's new. That should get us to TG.
We have been battling strong and very strong winds out here for 5 days now. And we are still not there and not making Auckland but hope to make Tauranga by Saturday.
The social cost has been high. I have missed being the oldest best man in the Southern Hemisphere for a couple (Deserae and Matt) of younger generations whom Lois and I respect and like a lot. They are circumnavigators.
Yesterday Murray told us that Carole-Anne and Thomas from Atlanta Georgia had flown out to provide a special surprise and indeed it would have been. Business commitments require they return tomorrow. They were with us between Savannah and Charleston and Connecticut and Martha's Vineyard and London and Glasgow and the cruise to the Baltic. Bother!!
We are in contact with Customs/Immigration and Taupo Maritime Radio (ZLM) on a daily basis (1815 hrs) and like you they are probably wondering why it is taking so long.
Believe me if we could get to shore faster, safely, we surely would.
Will keep Murray and Matt posted each day until we arrive.
Love
The Jolly Rogers
Distance to go to Tauranga 146 nm straight line. Of course we will not be going that way.
We are 80 nm North of East Cape heading for North Cape at present (1930 hrs NZDT).
The wind was supposed to moderate to 15 kts this morning. No such luck but is has come down to 25 from 35. Meant to go NW tomorrow evening and then NE at 35 with rough seas. What's new. That should get us to TG.
We have been battling strong and very strong winds out here for 5 days now. And we are still not there and not making Auckland but hope to make Tauranga by Saturday.
The social cost has been high. I have missed being the oldest best man in the Southern Hemisphere for a couple (Deserae and Matt) of younger generations whom Lois and I respect and like a lot. They are circumnavigators.
Yesterday Murray told us that Carole-Anne and Thomas from Atlanta Georgia had flown out to provide a special surprise and indeed it would have been. Business commitments require they return tomorrow. They were with us between Savannah and Charleston and Connecticut and Martha's Vineyard and London and Glasgow and the cruise to the Baltic. Bother!!
We are in contact with Customs/Immigration and Taupo Maritime Radio (ZLM) on a daily basis (1815 hrs) and like you they are probably wondering why it is taking so long.
Believe me if we could get to shore faster, safely, we surely would.
Will keep Murray and Matt posted each day until we arrive.
Love
The Jolly Rogers
06/10/09
Position:S3606,E17859, Nautical Mile to Tauranga:164, Wind Speed:35,
Wind Direction:135, Weather:Mixed, Sea State:Rough
We have a new destination... Tauranga. Distance to go is straight line to Tauranga.
Reason is that over the last 3 days we have been pushed SSE and have little choice than to make our landfall/clearance in Tauranga.
On our present course we will be lucky to make East Cape before tacking to the West across the Bay of Plenty.
Here is an excerpt from a message to Matt when we realised that we would not arrive in time to attend Deserae and his wedding in Queensland.
"With what we are experiencing and what we know we don't expect to be in Auckland before Friday or Saturday or later.
The low we encountered yesterday (was the 4th Oct)has deepened and broadened and slowed. The NZ Met forecast says they don't expect it to move off the North Island until Wednesday/Thursday.
Last night was appalling. Winds of 50+ at times. F10. Sort of "hove to" but did make some headway 20/30 degrees south of our track to AKL. No damage fortunately and no sleep for Lois and me.
Better (not much) today but the southerly winds we expected when the low should have passed over us have not eventuated because of the broadening.
At present we are (just) making course to the East Cape of the North Island. We are about 270 miles out. If this continues we will consider making our landfall/clearance in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty and even that will require back tracking.
This leg has been beyond belief. Light/nil winds after a few days and now all this over the past week. 18 days at sea so far. It only took 17 days on our AKL-Papeete leg against the prevailing weather.
It is with bitter disappointment and heavy hearts that we have to delay our trip to Australia. We were so looking forward to being with you on your very special day. However we look forward to spending some quality time with you within the next month."
Last night and today we have made slow progress in rough conditions. What's new.
Hopefully the low will move off and leave us in manageable conditions. We will make Auckland...eventually!!
Love
The Jolly Rogers
We have a new destination... Tauranga. Distance to go is straight line to Tauranga.
Reason is that over the last 3 days we have been pushed SSE and have little choice than to make our landfall/clearance in Tauranga.
On our present course we will be lucky to make East Cape before tacking to the West across the Bay of Plenty.
Here is an excerpt from a message to Matt when we realised that we would not arrive in time to attend Deserae and his wedding in Queensland.
"With what we are experiencing and what we know we don't expect to be in Auckland before Friday or Saturday or later.
The low we encountered yesterday (was the 4th Oct)has deepened and broadened and slowed. The NZ Met forecast says they don't expect it to move off the North Island until Wednesday/Thursday.
Last night was appalling. Winds of 50+ at times. F10. Sort of "hove to" but did make some headway 20/30 degrees south of our track to AKL. No damage fortunately and no sleep for Lois and me.
Better (not much) today but the southerly winds we expected when the low should have passed over us have not eventuated because of the broadening.
At present we are (just) making course to the East Cape of the North Island. We are about 270 miles out. If this continues we will consider making our landfall/clearance in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty and even that will require back tracking.
This leg has been beyond belief. Light/nil winds after a few days and now all this over the past week. 18 days at sea so far. It only took 17 days on our AKL-Papeete leg against the prevailing weather.
It is with bitter disappointment and heavy hearts that we have to delay our trip to Australia. We were so looking forward to being with you on your very special day. However we look forward to spending some quality time with you within the next month."
Last night and today we have made slow progress in rough conditions. What's new.
Hopefully the low will move off and leave us in manageable conditions. We will make Auckland...eventually!!
Love
The Jolly Rogers
05/10/09
With what we are experiencing and what we know we don't expect to be in Auckland before Friday or Saturday or later.
The low we encountered yesterday has deepened and broadened and slowed. The NZ Met forecast says they don't expect it to move off the North Island until Wednesday/Thursday.
Last night was appalling. Winds of 50+ at times. F10. Sort of "hove to" but did make some headway 20/30 degrees south of our track to AKL. No damage fortunately and no sleep for Lois and me.
Better (not much) today but the southerly winds we expected when the low should have passed over us have not eventuated because of the broadening.
At present we are (just) making course to the East Cape of the North Island. We are about 270 miles out. If this continues we will consider making our landfall/clearance in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty and even that will require back tracking.
This leg has been beyond belief. Light/nil winds after a few days and now all this over the past week. 18 days at sea so far. It only took 17 days on our AKL-Papeete leg against the prevailing weather.
We have decided now in light of all this to to postpone our trip to Australia which of course means not making the wedding but it is not to be, very disappointing. However we will catch up with the newlyweds when we head over there in a few weeks.
The low we encountered yesterday has deepened and broadened and slowed. The NZ Met forecast says they don't expect it to move off the North Island until Wednesday/Thursday.
Last night was appalling. Winds of 50+ at times. F10. Sort of "hove to" but did make some headway 20/30 degrees south of our track to AKL. No damage fortunately and no sleep for Lois and me.
Better (not much) today but the southerly winds we expected when the low should have passed over us have not eventuated because of the broadening.
At present we are (just) making course to the East Cape of the North Island. We are about 270 miles out. If this continues we will consider making our landfall/clearance in Tauranga in the Bay of Plenty and even that will require back tracking.
This leg has been beyond belief. Light/nil winds after a few days and now all this over the past week. 18 days at sea so far. It only took 17 days on our AKL-Papeete leg against the prevailing weather.
We have decided now in light of all this to to postpone our trip to Australia which of course means not making the wedding but it is not to be, very disappointing. However we will catch up with the newlyweds when we head over there in a few weeks.
04/10/09
Apologies for the huckery chart but they are between my two charts - East & West Parts of the World.
Day:17, Position:N3259,W17924, Miles to Go:0366, Wind Speed:15, Wind Direction:315
Weather:Fine, Sea State:Light
Destination Auckland we hope.
"So close and yet so far"... that is us at the moment. On Thursday (1 Oct) we only had 520 miles to go. Since then we have had strong SW winds such that on Friday we thumped into it on both tacks making a pitiful and uncomfortable 13 nautical miles. Saturday was worse with only 7 miles in 24 hours. Sunday the winds lightened a little making 88 miles headway but still uncomfortable, especially for Lois keeping us all nourished in addition to her many sailing duties.
Yesterday the winds veered from West to NW allowing us to gain 105 miles. Heading into winds of over 30 knots is something AC and we do not like. Today things are better as we are holding our course and achieving over 5 knots on average.
We don't expect that to last. Gale force winds are forecast ahead of us. Our ETA Auckland probably is between Wednesday evening and Saturday sometime depending on the actual weather. As reported in the previous update we don't have enough fuel to motor or motor sail, even if we could in these conditions.
The good news is that we have no "Mal de Mer", are warm, dry and fed. Naturally we would love to be in Auckland, or anywhere, rather than out here with such tedious progress.
Hope to see you sometime soon...yes really!!
Love
The Jolly Rogers, Brian and Ken.
Destination Auckland we hope.
"So close and yet so far"... that is us at the moment. On Thursday (1 Oct) we only had 520 miles to go. Since then we have had strong SW winds such that on Friday we thumped into it on both tacks making a pitiful and uncomfortable 13 nautical miles. Saturday was worse with only 7 miles in 24 hours. Sunday the winds lightened a little making 88 miles headway but still uncomfortable, especially for Lois keeping us all nourished in addition to her many sailing duties.
Yesterday the winds veered from West to NW allowing us to gain 105 miles. Heading into winds of over 30 knots is something AC and we do not like. Today things are better as we are holding our course and achieving over 5 knots on average.
We don't expect that to last. Gale force winds are forecast ahead of us. Our ETA Auckland probably is between Wednesday evening and Saturday sometime depending on the actual weather. As reported in the previous update we don't have enough fuel to motor or motor sail, even if we could in these conditions.
The good news is that we have no "Mal de Mer", are warm, dry and fed. Naturally we would love to be in Auckland, or anywhere, rather than out here with such tedious progress.
Hope to see you sometime soon...yes really!!
Love
The Jolly Rogers, Brian and Ken.
29/09/09
Day:13, Position:S2918,W17437, Miles to go:0697,
Wind Speed:05, Wind Direction:045, Weather:Cloudy, Sea StateCalm
Destination is still direct to Auckland.
We have been motoring and motor sailing for the last three days. Calm or light conditions.
We used 3 of our 4 fuel tanks and 3 of 4 60 litre containers. At present our day tank is full but will run out sometime tomorrow. After that we will hold the forward port tank and the last 60 litre container in reserve.
Current weather fax prognoses and grib files suggest the wind will be moving to NW tomorrow and then backing through West and then NW in the next 72 hours. Also it is predicted to increase to 30+ knots. Hope not what!!
That makes setting an ETA rather difficult. My guess is 5-7 days from today.
As we are in the GMT + 12 hour time Zone we are operating on NZ time. Changing the clocks this morning and shifting ahead a day meant we lost September 28th. It does mean I will be celebrating my Birthday tomorrow, hopefully before the heavier weather hits us.
We are all well on board, even having chocolate coated ice creams during a Matinee Movie yesterday. Mate Ken just loved that touch from Lois.
Other than the weather outlook our biggest problem will be consuming all the food before Customs come on board and confiscate heaps. Touch wood... everything is operating as it should.
Love
The Jolly Rogers, Brian and Ken
Destination is still direct to Auckland.
We have been motoring and motor sailing for the last three days. Calm or light conditions.
We used 3 of our 4 fuel tanks and 3 of 4 60 litre containers. At present our day tank is full but will run out sometime tomorrow. After that we will hold the forward port tank and the last 60 litre container in reserve.
Current weather fax prognoses and grib files suggest the wind will be moving to NW tomorrow and then backing through West and then NW in the next 72 hours. Also it is predicted to increase to 30+ knots. Hope not what!!
That makes setting an ETA rather difficult. My guess is 5-7 days from today.
As we are in the GMT + 12 hour time Zone we are operating on NZ time. Changing the clocks this morning and shifting ahead a day meant we lost September 28th. It does mean I will be celebrating my Birthday tomorrow, hopefully before the heavier weather hits us.
We are all well on board, even having chocolate coated ice creams during a Matinee Movie yesterday. Mate Ken just loved that touch from Lois.
Other than the weather outlook our biggest problem will be consuming all the food before Customs come on board and confiscate heaps. Touch wood... everything is operating as it should.
Love
The Jolly Rogers, Brian and Ken
23/09/09
Days at sea:08, Position:S2139,W16425, Miles to go:1412
Wind Speed:15, Wind Direction:135, Weather:Sunyy ,Sea State:Light
Destination is now Auckland. We have been making only moderate speed albeit the conditions are very comfortable and we are making our planned course very easily. None the less we are unlikely to have time to call in at Opua if we are to make our flights to Sydney on the 8th with some time to spare.
Our 2nd and 3rd Mates have settled into the shipboard routine taking their turns on "watch" and helping with other duties. Brian continues to be an excellent steward (a vital role)with Ken acting as our maintenance and engineering assistant. They both share galley and general cleaning tasks!
Three days ago our watermaker blew a hose fitting. After three attempts to rejoin the offending coupling we managed to get it working in mildly difficult circumstances using the combined resources of Captain and crew and gasket cement. Lets hope it holds for the rest of our voyage.
Lois (now addressed as "No 1") attends to everything... sailing operations, cleaning and cleaning standards, cleanliness (ship and personal; clean clothes and showers every day for all of us for example} and then before and after cocktail hour prepares the evening repast which is always world class.
This morning after dawn our new Gennaker ripped about 1.5 metres into the sail itself from the clew. Conditions were light and that should not have happened. At present we are moving at a healthy 6 knots under full headsail, main and mizzen. Very p....d off about the Gennaker so hopefully Doyle Sail Makers will honour their 2 yr warranty.
We are all well and in good spirits and hope you are too.
Will report again in 3 or 4 days.
Love
The Jolly Rogers
Destination is now Auckland. We have been making only moderate speed albeit the conditions are very comfortable and we are making our planned course very easily. None the less we are unlikely to have time to call in at Opua if we are to make our flights to Sydney on the 8th with some time to spare.
Our 2nd and 3rd Mates have settled into the shipboard routine taking their turns on "watch" and helping with other duties. Brian continues to be an excellent steward (a vital role)with Ken acting as our maintenance and engineering assistant. They both share galley and general cleaning tasks!
Three days ago our watermaker blew a hose fitting. After three attempts to rejoin the offending coupling we managed to get it working in mildly difficult circumstances using the combined resources of Captain and crew and gasket cement. Lets hope it holds for the rest of our voyage.
Lois (now addressed as "No 1") attends to everything... sailing operations, cleaning and cleaning standards, cleanliness (ship and personal; clean clothes and showers every day for all of us for example} and then before and after cocktail hour prepares the evening repast which is always world class.
This morning after dawn our new Gennaker ripped about 1.5 metres into the sail itself from the clew. Conditions were light and that should not have happened. At present we are moving at a healthy 6 knots under full headsail, main and mizzen. Very p....d off about the Gennaker so hopefully Doyle Sail Makers will honour their 2 yr warranty.
We are all well and in good spirits and hope you are too.
Will report again in 3 or 4 days.
Love
The Jolly Rogers
19/09/09
Days at Sea:04, Position:N1823,W15627, Miles to go:1846,
Wind Speed:12, Wind Direction:090, Weather:Fine, Sea State:Light
Destination is Opua in NZ. That could change to Auckland depending on progress and/or weather.
First two days out from Moorea we had moderate winds 25+ knots from the NE which veered to East. Seas were 3 metres with squalls.
Last night things have moderated to 12/15 knots with 1 metre swells.
Hoisted the MPS (Spinnaker?) after midday. According to our Grib files these conditions should continue for the next few days. Very comfortable but not fast. Day's run have been 121, 128 and 111 nautical miles so far.
As you know we have Brian McAra from Hawkes Bay and Ken Everett from Sydney on board. Brian spent 8 weeks with us while we were in Greece. Ken has sailed extensively on our previous yacht "Acrux". Brian and Lorraine sailed with us some 13 years ago between Bora Bora and Papeete on "Acrux". Would you believe they independently asked if they could join us on our last leg! After considering the effect that may have on our well practiced and entrenched processes and space agreed "Why Not".
For the first two days L&T let them settle in and get used to being back at sea. They separately kept us company for part of our night watches. Tonight things change. They will take 3 hour watches themselves allowing us to reduce our normal 6 hour watches to 3 hours as well. Other duties will be allocated as we progress!
Have the line out but no luck yet!
Love
The Jolly Rogers
Days at Sea:04, Position:N1823,W15627, Miles to go:1846,
Wind Speed:12, Wind Direction:090, Weather:Fine, Sea State:Light
Destination is Opua in NZ. That could change to Auckland depending on progress and/or weather.
First two days out from Moorea we had moderate winds 25+ knots from the NE which veered to East. Seas were 3 metres with squalls.
Last night things have moderated to 12/15 knots with 1 metre swells.
Hoisted the MPS (Spinnaker?) after midday. According to our Grib files these conditions should continue for the next few days. Very comfortable but not fast. Day's run have been 121, 128 and 111 nautical miles so far.
As you know we have Brian McAra from Hawkes Bay and Ken Everett from Sydney on board. Brian spent 8 weeks with us while we were in Greece. Ken has sailed extensively on our previous yacht "Acrux". Brian and Lorraine sailed with us some 13 years ago between Bora Bora and Papeete on "Acrux". Would you believe they independently asked if they could join us on our last leg! After considering the effect that may have on our well practiced and entrenched processes and space agreed "Why Not".
For the first two days L&T let them settle in and get used to being back at sea. They separately kept us company for part of our night watches. Tonight things change. They will take 3 hour watches themselves allowing us to reduce our normal 6 hour watches to 3 hours as well. Other duties will be allocated as we progress!
Have the line out but no luck yet!
Love
The Jolly Rogers
posted by Alpha Crucis at 3:13 AM
2 Comments:
Hey not long to go now. Will miss your birthday Terry but we will see you when you finally return.
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