Crew: Geoff, Murray, Phil Forecast Cook Strait: : Variable 10 knots. Southerly 15 knots developing in the morning, then easing to variable 10 knots again in the afternoon. Sea slight. Long period southerly swell 1 metre. HW Wellington 1312 hrs. Wellington turned on a glorious morning for our departure. Light southerly breeze and clear skies. Phil... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Murray, Eduardo, Albrecht, Bruno. Forecast: Saturday: Northerly 15 knots, easing to 10 knots for a time late afternoon and evening. Sea slight. Fine. Sunday: Northerly rising to 20 knots early morning. This year's 24 Hour Endurance race looked like it would be a bit more exciting than previous years due to the forecast of some... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Grant, Murray, Peter, Albrecht. Forecast: Variable 5 knots becoming southerly 10 knots in the morning. Rising to 15 knots in the afternoon. Sea slight. Fine spells. High tide: 1114 hrs. The start line for this race was between the committee boat (Pania) and the orange flag. Halo started first over the line -... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Eduardo, Albrecht. Forecast: Southeast 15 knots, but 10 knots in the harbour. Becoming variable 5 knots everywhere this evening. Sea slight. Fine. Low tide 1153 hrs. With the light winds predicted we rigged up the No. 1 Light Genoa and prepared the Maxi Spinnaker. Geoff and Eduardo sailed round to Evans Bay and... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Bruno, Eduardo. Forecast: Southerly 20 knots, but 15 knots about the harbour. Becoming southeast 15 knots but 10 knots in the harbour this evening. Moderate sea easing. High tide: 1708 hrs, Low tide 2317 hrs. After doing a safety briefing with Bruno (first time on Halo) and fitting a MOB light on his... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Grant, Murray, Juliet, Mark. Forecast: Today: Variable 5 knots but southerly 10 knots about the south coast. Becoming variable 5 knots everywhere this evening. Sea slight. Poor visibility in morning drizzle, clearing then fine. Very light conditions in the inner harbour today. Geoff, Mark and Kay went out for a training sail earlier in... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Peter, Lorna. Forecast: Variable 5 knots. Northerly 10 knots developing this morning, rising to 15 knots this afternoon. Sea slight. Fine. Low tide - 1340 hrs. We cast off from Chaffers at 1100 hrs. Hoisted the No. 1 Light Genoa and Mainsail to sail across to Point Jenningham and then rigged up the spinnaker... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Albrecht, Murray, Lorrna, Silvia. Forecast: Northerly 10 knots rising to 20 knots in the morning. Sea becoming moderate. Morning and evening cloud otherwise fine. We all met at Chaffers and after safety briefing for new crew we cast off a 1100 hrs. The northerly was averaging around 18 kts with gusts around 25 kts... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff. Forecast: Southerly 10-15 knots. Sea slight. Fine. Motored Halo round to Evans Bay arriving at the slip and onto the travel lift at 1345 hrs. Hull was in pretty good condition since the last clean six months ago in September. Most growth was under the keel, and rudder, around the prpp and shaft, and... Continue Reading →
Crew: Geoff, Graciela, Jenny, Jono, Isabelle and Max. Forecast: Southerly 10 knots easing to variable 5 knots early this evening. Northerly 10 knots developing late evening. Sea slight. Fine. Isabelle and Max 's first fishing adventure! They'd read stories of people going fishing so we decided to take them out to Oriental Bay to give them... Continue Reading →
