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Well, what do we do now?

The world has gone slightly mad! Coronavirus has caused so much mayhem that it’s hard to know what we should do. Do we dash home while we still can, leaving the jobs on the boat unfinished or stay here a bit longer, get to know New Zealand a bit better and live on our mobile socially isolated home?
We splashed the boat on Friday 20/3/20 and made our way up-river to the town basin marina to complete a few more jobs like fixing the broken wind speed thingy at the top of the mast. It’s so good to be back on the water! We will stay here for a few more days and then make our way north to Opua to collect our wind generators that have now been repaired. After that we shall see.

Our tender got her own special splashing

Back in NZ – March 2020

At last we are back in New Zealand and getting the boat ready for some cruising adventures locally before heading back to the NZ Bay of Islands for the start of the 2020 Pacific Circuit Rally.

The plan was to splash the boat this week but a nasty weather system is rearing its ugly head in the coming week so we took local advice and postponed splashing until next week.

So many jobs to do….but it’s not all bad living on the hard.

It’s not all bad living on the hard