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Monday, the 8th of May, and the transformation is complete, as in, we're in full hurricane mode here folks. You may possibly be asking, what is hurricane mode? It's that tedious, but brief span of time that seems to go on forever when all you can do is wait for the thing to pass, kinda like a kidney stone, but this one's about 400 miles across. Donna, the kidney stone's name, is...

We'd just arrived off our passage from Brisbane, Australia in lovely New Caledonia to discover a late season tropical depression was forming north of Vanuatu. Over the course of the following week, the storm spun up into Cyclone Donna. Come aboard with the crew of S/Y Feelin' Good as we prepare for the storm and then ride out at anchor in our 'hurricane hole'. When it was over, we...

This map shows all the passages taken during 2016. In January we were in New Zealand doing our off-season maintenance during the Pacific cyclone season (in the southern hemisphere it runs from November 1 to May 1). By the end of May we were departing from the Bay of Islands for Fiji. After spending over four months in Fiji, we headed across to Vanuatu for a couple of weeks, then New...

Like the song by Richie Valens, our world revolves around Donna these days. She’s a slow moving cyclone (see the map), currently ambling along at 2kts over the ground and still up to the north of us and Vanuatu although we are feeling her effects already with wind gusts and rainy showers.

Cyclone season in the Pacific is opposite to hurricane season in the Caribbean. Over here, it starts November 1 and is supposed to be over by the end of April. This year there was absolutely nothing until late March when Cyclone Debbie slammed into northern Queensland (getting us pretty wet with heavy rains in Brisbane). Everyone assumed the show was over, no more cyclones now as...

Yes, Feelin' Good is back! After a hiatus for maintenance and some much needed time off, we've completed the first passage of the 2017 season. We left the Rivergate Marina in Brisbane, Australia, on 23 April and arrived four days later in Noumea, New Caledonia. It was a terrific passage, and with the Pacific cyclone season's end, the fun begins, so come aboard for a blue water...

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.

Finally, we are out of the Brisbane marina and 20 miles away at anchor for Easter Weekend at Moreton Island, we're anchored in front of Tangalooma Resort where we can go walk the beach, have a beer at the resort or just hang on the boat (which is our choice for this first night but the crew is on-shore!).