EBYMBC Summer Sailing – 4 February 2023

Crew: Grant, Nina, Anastasia, Patricia, Geoff. Forecast: Northerly 15 knots, rising to 20 knots this morning.  Low tide 1100 hrs. We cast off from the berth at Chaffers Marina at 1108 hrs and hoisted the mainsail with #1 reef and the No. 2 Jib. We did some practise sailing around to Evans Bay before tying...

RPNYC Rum Race 13 Jan 2023

Crew: Geoff, Peter, Hugo, Anastasia, Nina, Grant and Murray. Forecast: Southerly 10 knots easing to variable 5 knots everywhere this evening. Sea slight. Fine. We cast off from Chaffers Marina at 1730 hrs in a beautiful evening and started rigging the No. 1 Heavy Genoa with full main. Positions were allocated, Peter on helm, Grant...

Harbour Sailing – Orcas! 9 Jan 2023

Crew: Geoff, Grant, Peter, Murray, Hugo. Forecast: Becoming southeast 15 knots in the morning, then easing to 10 knots in the evening. LW 1406 hrs. The forecast was looking good for a relaxing sail with mates around the harbour with the intention of visiting Seaview for coffee/lunch. We cast off from Chaffers Marina at 1050 hrs...

Family Fun on Halo – 4 Jan 2023

Crew: Geoff, Graciela, Jenny, Isabelle, Max, Hugo. Today: Northerly 10 knots, turning southerly 10 knots for a time in the afternoon and early evening. LW 0956 hrs. Lovely warm morning as we cast off from Chaffers at 1045 hrs and hoisted the mainsail and No. 2 Jib. Jenny did a great job on helm as we...

Sailing with Hugo – 2 Jan 2023

Crew: Geoff and Hugo Forecast: Southeast 15 knots, but 10 knots in the Harbour, becoming northeast 10 knots everywhere this evening. Graciela's brother Hugo is visiting us from Chile and was keen to go out sailing on Halo. He has a sailing dinghy back home. The forecast was good for his introductory sail. We cast off...

EBYMBC Spring Sailing Series – 10 December 2022

Crew: Grant, Anastasia, Murray, Vivien, Colin and Geoff. Forecast: Northerly 10 knots, rising to 15 knots in the evening. Sea slight. Low tide 1352 hrs. I woke up on Saturday morning with mild cold symptoms. "Do a Covid test before you go sailing," says Graciela. I did the test which showed negative. All good! Grant,...

Matilda Cup Women’s Helm Series Rum Race – 2 December 2022

The Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club is joining clubs and organisations around the world by running an event as part of the World Sailing Women's Sailing Festival. If a boat in the Rum Race has a woman on the helm for the race they will get a rum race result and a result for the...

RPNYC Island Bay Race – 26 November 2022

Crew: Geoff, Murray, Anastasia, Patricia. Forecast: Northwest 15 knots, rising to 25 knots gusting 35 knots for a time in the afternoon and early evening. Low tide 1355 hrs. On the morning of the race the forecasts weren't looking too good. On arrival at Chaffers at 9am it was already blowing hard with gusts over...

Nelson to Punt Rails to Wellington – 14/15 November 2022

Graciela and I spent the weekend in Nelson and enjoyed a wonderful celebration of Dave's 70th on Saturday night. Great to catch up with Bob there too. Our friends Jim and Lindie kindly let us stay in their house while they were in the Abel Tasman. After checking the forecasts and tide tables we decided...

D’Urville Island to Nelson – 11 Nov 2022

After resting for two nights at Catherine Cove we cast off from the mooring at 0817 hrs and headed down Admiralty Bay towards Te Aumiti / French Pass. Although the SE wind had eased off considerably from yesterday it was still a stiff 15-20 kts. As we neared the pass we noted that our tide...