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Episode 359 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode we depart Pelorus Sound bound for D'Urville Island on a flat calm day. We enjoyed a glassy passage through Stephens Pass and made our way into Port Hardy....

This 6 year boat refit got us here! We spent several years refitting Sitka to get her ocean worthy. We ripped teak decks off, built a hard top dodger, sewed stack packs, glassed cabin top sidings and a cockpit floor, installed a hydrovane, sewed cockpit cu...

Episode 358 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode we head ashore to smoke the fish Rhonda caught in our new Kiwi Sizzler smoker we had picked up in Picton. We used Al Brown's recipe for smoking the fish h...

Episode 357 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode we slip the mooring line after the storms had passed and made our way to Ketu Bay. We had heard that there was good fishing to be found in this bay and af...

Episode 356 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode we leave Havelock and make way for the remote anchorage of Chance Bay on the advice of our new friends Nigel and Dale of SY Keiren. We were happy to find ...

Episode 355 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode we depart Long Bay and head up a very tight channel to the small town of Havelock at the far end of Pelorus Sound. After getting fueled up and the water t...

Episode 354 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode we enjoy a short sail to Long Bay and explore the coves and beaches of Kenepuru Bay. Rhonda made some fresh tea, loaded up the thermos and we headed out f...

Episode 353 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode we explore Waihinua Bay and wait out some bad weather, wake up with flat batteries (due to too much tea being boiled during said bad weather) and find our...

Episode 352 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode Rhonda comes aboard for a weeks worth of adventures in Marlborough Sounds. If you enjoy the channel please "Like" the videos and Subscribe so you don't m...

Episode 351 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode I explore Meretoto / Ship Cove and try to image Captain Cook sailing into the bay and anchoring The Endeavour and the Resolution for repair and replenishm...

Episode 350 : Season 11 : The South Island of New Zealand - Aotearoa Hello Friends, On this episode I depart Maori Bay in Pelorus Sound with a lovely sailing 13 knots of wind forecasted as I make my way to Queen Charlotte Sound. As I rounded Cape Jackso...

For my passage from the North to the South Islands of New Zealand, I had the chance to test out one of Hest's Camping Mattress' in my passage berth. Before this 400NM passage, I had completed 5 ocean passages with cheap mattress foam toppers and my back al...