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 […]
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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
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TIME: 2011/05/05 05:14 LATITUDE: 36-37.42S LONGITUDE: 174-47.29E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: N CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1029 AIR_TEMP: 14.4C COMMENT: Beach House – Docked \”A\” Pier, Gulf Harbour. LOTS of \”boat projects\”….
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
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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
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On March 13, 2011, we lost our dearest, sweetest Cindy. Many of you may not know that she was suffering from a very deep depression; most severe since this past November. Despite all help, she decided in her pain she could no longer endure and chose to take her life. Cindy fought as hard as
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YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/10/25 13:53 LATITUDE: 36-37.42S LONGITUDE: 174-47.29E MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: 225T CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1029 AIR_TEMP: 14.4C COMMENT: Beach House – Docked – \”A\” Dock, Gulf Harbour Marina…..Honey, we\’re home!……02:45 a.m. local time
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/10/25 09:04 LATITUDE: 36-14.37S LONGITUDE: 174-51.62E COURSE: 148T SPEED: 7.6 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 7 WIND_DIR: 255T CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 15 BARO: 1030.5 AIR_TEMP: 16.1C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Auckland, NZ – abeam Cape Rodney, Entering Hauraki Gulf – 30 miles to go to Gulf Harbour
YOTREPS: YES TIME: 2010/10/25 03:39 LATITUDE: 35-33.74S LONGITUDE: 174-33.24E COURSE: 163T SPEED: 8.2 MARINE: NO WIND_SPEED: 5 WIND_DIR: 003T CLOUDS: 10% VISIBILITY: 30 BARO: 1030 AIR_TEMP: 24.4C COMMENT: Beach House – En Route – Auckland, NZ – abeam Poor Knights Islands, 70 miles to Gulf Harbour, expect a.m. arrival.