Wild Days Rum, available at all liquor stores on Waiheke Island – more here When I told friends in Sydney that I was sitting on a beach in New Zealand the comment was met with no small amount of wonderment. New Zilund, for the record, does have beaches. Very nice ones at that. It was [...]

Greetings yachties, What a weekend! Great sail in 20-30knots on Outrageous Fortune, covered 87 miles in 9 hours. On Sunday with Waiheke Boating club we took 4 hours to do 2 miles. Great day in the sun. Tomorrow I’m off to Hamilton to pick up the summer’s BBQ meat – could take all day. In [...]

Top speed of 45knots! At 9:00, after a little over 21 hours of sailing, the Maxi Banque Populaire V has a lead of 133.3 nautical miles on the reference time of the Jules Verne Trophy. With a flow of East / Northeast relatively strong and a good average speed, the multihull skippered by Pascal Bidégorry [...]