May 18th, 2011 0915 UTC/2115 local time (Eastern Hemisphere) Current Conditions: We\’re 20 miles north of Great Barrier Island, heading for the Minerva Reefs. 750 miles to go if we stop there. Position: 35 deg 44 min S 175 deg 23 min N Wind South 22 Swell South 1.5 meters Temp: 59 deg F, 15 …
May 18th, Eastern Hemisphere, 0200 UTC, 2 p.m. local time. Position: Hauraki Gulf 36 deg 25 min South 175 deg 01 min East Heading 020 True Speed 6.5 knots (taking it easy, staysail only) Wind 31 knots, SSW Sea 1 meter (protection from land), it\’s gonna get big once we clear North Cape and are …
Tuesday (Eastern Hemisphere), May 17th, 2011 \”Kentucky Woman\”….Neil Diamond Auckland, New Zealand: Wind 8-20 knots, SW. Barometer 1011 and slightly rising. Temperature: 58 degrees F, 15.2 C. Rain Squalls. One cold front down, one to hit us in the morning, then off we go. Expect a fast passage with winds from the SW turning S, …
May 16th, 2011 Dear F&F, \”Anniversary\”….\”The Little River Band\”. Auckland, New Zealand: Wind SSW 18-35 knots. Swell in the Tasman Sea 6-8 meters SSW (18- 25 feet). Temperature 61 deg F, 16.6 C. Squally…. Today is May 16th, 2011. Today would have been our 18th anniversary. We always called it our \”Humaversary\” after the Humuhumunukunuku …
May 15, 2011 Dear F&F, Hopefully Bobby Darrin, author of \”If I were a carpenter and she were a lady\” won\’t be too plussed about my liberties with his song title. (See paragraph below). Current conditions: Auckland: 21 knots, SE (a first!), 57 degrees F, 14.2 degrees C. Rain and squally and rough outside the …
May 14th, 2011 \”Look Through Any Window\”…..The Hollies Dear Friends and Family, Well, the weather HERE in Auckland has been pleasant and we were looking forward to a mid week departure. Now however, a tropical low is forming north of our nice Big Fat High. This means, we may yet be on hold awaiting a …
May 12th, 2011 Dear Friends and Family, When leaving New Zealand which I have chosen to do as soon as practical for emotional reasons; the weather is EVERYTHING. Yesterday was perhaps the worst weather I\’ve seen in my life! Not kidding. It was blowing 40 knots, 50 in the gusts. It was raining as hard …
May 11th 2011 Dear Friends and Family, We\’ll the journey continues and begins anew. The weather has been horrid. The wind blows like hell in furry, the rain falls like a broken damn. What am I doing here? Mike Lonnes, great guy and genuinely best marine installation man on the planet earth, came to New …
May 2nd, 2011 Dear Friends and Family, I don\’t have any idea where to begin. I write you from still gray, rainy, windy Auckland, New Zealand. The weather has been truly awful since my return to \”Beach House\” a week ago. It suits my emotional state as I\’m sure you can imagine. I am still …
May 1st, 2011 Dear Friends & Family, As you can see from the new homepage of svbeachhouse.com, I have archived our original website to the memory of our voyages. We truly had some of the greatest times of our lives in places like San Benedicto Island riding giant manta rays, swimming with a whale shark …