Just letting you know we are coming to Sydney in a few days and again in December both by car. Send us an email if you would like to catch up. We will be there from the 15th - 22nd Nov and again on the 1st - 19th Dec. Peter is working at Endeavor High during December.see you all soonKylie and Peteoh yeah...
Year TwoDate: 17/10/2009 14:00Weather: niceLocation: Coffs HarbourAuthor: PeterWe are home. We arrived at midday on thursday after a colourful sail. When planning a passage, you can check alot of different places to find out what weather you can expect. These are usually good for the first three days but after that anything can happen. Once again this was the case with the last...
Year TwoDate: 10/10/2009 18:00Weather: roughLocation: Coral Sea (23 37.380' S, 163 57.433' E)Log: 10530 nmAuthor: PeterWe have left New Caledonia and are currently on our way back to Aus. We have been sailing upwind now for the last day and a bit and it is not the most comfortable with a big sea running from the south west and 25 knots over the...
Year TwoDate: 4/10/2009 13:30Weather: slightly overcast and coolLocation: Baie Nord (22 20.033' S,166 52.673' E)Log: 10300 nmAuthor: PeterWow what a change of scene. We have been cruising some quiet anchorages and small communities for the last few months. Then comes the shock of New Caledonia on a Saturday morning. We woke up early to the sound of a constant stream of boats passing...
Year TwoDate: 2/10/2009 14:00Weather: Blue skiesLocation: Noumea (22 16.967' S,166 38.26' E)Author: PeterWe arrived in New Caledonia late on thursday night. After entering the reef in the dark we sailed until about 25nm short of Noumea and laid the anchor so that we could get some sleep. We awoke to some breathtaking scenery that was very different to what we had seen in...
Year TwoDate: 29/9/2009 18:00Weather: Nice, very niceLocation: South Pacific Ocean (21 27.967' S,169 38.353' E)Author: PeterWhenever we are at sea we try to send two emails back home to a select group each day so that someone always knows where we are, how we are traveling and if there are any problems. If we miss an email we feel confident in knowing that...
Year TwoDate: 27/9/2009 10:00Weather: SteamyLocation: South Pacific Ocean (19 08.221' S, 174 39.831' E)Author: PeterWe cleared out of Fiji on Friday afternoon. Once again a simple process, although there is alot of paperwork. As per usual we once again went out for a meal on our last day however this time it was lunch at the "The Northern" and we were shouted lunch...
Year TwoDate: 23/9/2009 17:00Weather: SteamyLocation: Saweni Bay (17 38.438' S, 177 23.572' E)Author: Peter and KylieThe weather recently has been rather weird and unpredictable. The usual south easterly trade winds have not shown themselves lately. Instead we have had either dead calm or raging storm (maybe that is a slight exaggeration but not far off). We have seen more rain in the last...
Year TwoDate: 20/9/2009 16:00Weather: Sunny (today)Location: Somewhere in the Yasawa Island ChainAuthor: PeterThe morning of the last night the Davis's spent on board started off nicely. We picked up anchor at Blue lagoon shortly after breakfast so that we could make our way south to an anchorage close to where we were to drop them off. Shortly after exiting the lagoon we were...
Year TwoDate: 11/9/2009 18:00Weather: Very WindyLocation: Blue Lagoon (16 56.652' S, 177 21.991' E)Author: Katherine with some (but not much) help from MatthewOur family (Peter, Karen, Katherine and Matthew Davis) met Peter and Kylie through sailing in NS14's, I'm 14 and Matthew is 12. About 2 months or so ago Dad decided that we'd go and join Pete and Kylie on Jura during...
