Articles tagged with 'rtw-2017'

This map represents our entire voyage around the world starting in December of 2014 and ending up back in the Mediterranean at the end of May 2019. The statistics show we traveled almost 35,000 nm and you can see by the path on the map that we zigged around quite a bit particularly in the Pacific (what an amazing place!).

This map shows all the passages taken during 2017. In January we were in Brisbane, Australia doing our off-season maintenance during the Pacific cyclone season. By the end of April we were departing from Brisbane for New Caledonia. Unfortunately, a week after we arrived, Cyclone Donna decided to drop by and we headed for a 'huricane hole' to ride out the storm. After a lot of wind and...

We may finally have a weather window that will allow us to make the passage from Vanuatu to New Zealand. At this time of the year, NZ has wild Spring weather with storm after storm coming in off the Tasman Sea (from the West). The storms are about 3-4 days apart so we have to time carefully to be able to do the passage and arrive in time to avoid running into the next storm coming...

Great holding, sheltered from most wind directions and a really nice local resort (Ratua Island Resort) onshore with a good restaurant and bar. They also put on a wonderful beach BBQ and allowed us to participate as well. Be sure to stop by and say hello from Feelin' Good!

Since we arrived in New Caledonia at the end of April, we have experienced a brush with Cyclone Donna, wonderful diving and island BBQ's, a visit from Eric and extraordinary islands, atolls and reclusive anchorages. New Caledonia has it all along with a vibrant capital city complete with any provision you'd like (as long as you are prepared to pay dearly for it!).

Ok, it's about time we were on our way. Our arrival in Australia was back in October of 2016 and we've been sitting in our berth at Rivergate Marina since then. Aside from Easter weekend when we got away from here to anchor out and test systems by Moreton Island, we've been just sitting in the marina waiting out the cyclone season.