Date: Friday, November 9th 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 31° 17′ S, 176° 04′ E COG:173 °T SOG: 3.5 kts Distance to the New Zealand: 288 nm 24 hr. Distance covered: 107 nm The wind has lightened up again and clocked around to the north. Today we have the spinnaker poled out from …
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Tonga to New Zealand Passage – Day 8
Date: Thursday, November 8th 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 29° 33′ S, 176° 35′ E COG:194 °T SOG: 4.7 kts Distance to the New Zealand: 376 nm 24 hr. Distance covered: 120 nm In answer to Jennie Cunningham’s question a few days ago I asked everyone individually what it was that they missed …
Tonga to New Zealand Passage – Day 7
Date: Wednesday, November 7th 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 27° 59′ S, 177° 28′ E COG: 198°T SOG: 4.5 kts Distance to the New Zealand: 493 nm 24 hr. Distance covered: 92 nm Happy Birthday Karen Minton! (Nov 6th) This is the first passage that we have had to go upwind in a …
Tonga to New Zealand Passage – Day 6
Date: Tuesday, November 6th 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 26° 31′ S, 178° 07′ E COG: 197°T SOG: 4.0 kts Distance to the New Zealand: 605 nm 24 hr. Distance covered: 108 nm We made it through the high where the wind was extremely light and now we are quietly sailing along in …
Tonga to New Zealand Passage – Day 5
Date: Monday, November 5th 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 24° 48′ S, 178° 34′ E COG: 198°T SOG: 4.5 kts Distance to the New Zealand: 716 nm 24 hr. Distance covered: 88 nm All is well on Banyan. Cameron and the girls are slumbering away to the hum of the engine while I …
Tonga to New Zealand Passage – Day 3
Date: Saturday, November 3rd 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 22° 00.822′ S, 179° 20.099 ‘ W COG: 230°T SOG: 4.5 kts Distance to New Zealand: 867 nm 24 hr. Distance covered: 92 nm Today has been a bumpy ride on the South Pacific roller coaster. It’s probably more reminiscent of a washing machine. …
Tonga to New Zealand Passage – Day 2
Date: Friday, November 2nd 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 21° 28.78 ‘ S, 177° 47.23′ W COG: 275°T SOG: 4.5kts Distance to the New Zealand: 1062nm 24 hr Distance covered: 97 nm Cameron Here, Last night was a quiet night. We lost all wind for about four hours and were forced to motor …
Tonga to New Zealand Passage
Day 1 Date: Thursday, November 1st 2018 Time: 23:00 UTC (12pm local) Location: 20° 47.49′ S, 176° 13.84′ W COG: 230°T SOG: 5.5kts Distance to the New Zealand: 1147 nm Distance covered since departure (19 hrs) : 86nm Happy Halloween from Banyan! I first have to say that we LOVE reading your comments. We always …
Outbound Niue, Inbound Tonga
The below was written on Saturday, October 27th Location 19° 54.6742 S 172° 36.1894 W COG: 260° SOG: 4.5 knots With some funky weather hitting us on the nose and some lighter winds forecasted, we have decided to swing into an uninhabited island in the Tongan group just to wait out the weather and have …
Never Heard of Niue?
Date: Friday, October 25th 2018 Time: 21:34 UTC Location 19° 49.27 S 171° 29.33 W COG: 262° SOG: 5.2 knots I had also never heard of Niue until our minds and plans started heading west from French Polynesia. People were asking “Are you stopping at Niue? Palmerston? Suwarrow?” common stops on the way west. Niue …