by oceangybe | Dec 7, 2007 | Blog
Location: Teahupoo 17 degrees, 51’South, 149 degrees, 15′ West – Hugh Hey folks, So this blog has been a work in progress for about, oh, 2 ½ months now! Ooops, well, better late than never I suppose. Believe it or not, it can actually be hard to find...
by oceangybe | Nov 28, 2007 | Blog
Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud, loomed against the horizon, slowly growing larger and larger till it filled the horizon from north to south. We hadn’t sailed into a land mass of this size since leaving Mexico some 6 months ago and as it filled the...
by oceangybe | Nov 20, 2007 | Blog
19th November in Canada, 20th November in NZ We have music playing, the sun is shining, we have just caught a blue fin Tuna, we have just eaten a pancake breakfast and we have a visual on New Zealand, straight ahead. It is a phenomenal feeling to be here, and to think...
by oceangybe | Nov 19, 2007 | Blog
Lat: 32 deg. 25.037 South Long: 175 deg. 51.680 East by Matt Delany Weather Windows. From Day 1 of meeting up with the boys on Tongatapu the story of weather windows would dominate discussion among the local sailing community. Is this it? Are you guys going for it?...
by oceangybe | Nov 17, 2007 | Blog
by Hugh Time stands still in travel The passage of time is a strange thing when you’re traveling huge distances very slowly in a sailboat. One is used to hours being divided up by alarm-clocks, traffic patterns, class times, recreation, the news and sitcom...
by oceangybe | Nov 13, 2007 | Blog
We are sitting in the middle of the largest contrast any of us have ever experienced. There is no land in sight from horizon to horizon. In fact we had our last sight of land 3 days ago as we sailed away from Tongpatapu, the southernmost port in the kingdom on Tonga....
