To Q Dock
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Mon 16 Dec 2013 22:30
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To The Quarantine Dock, Opua
Marina, New Zealand
 This afternoons important event was
the flag ceremony, then of course games,
no one out here but us
kids.
 Land faint on the horizon. It’s a lot of
land, maybe, just maybe, because it’s a
country......
Bear got revenge
for my beating him yesterday by one in Upword, today he beat me by five. The
boys were still partying hard downstairs, in fact the general mood on board was
one of excited anticipation, some degree of relief and a
huge sense of achievement. So many smiley faces.
 New
Zealand, a new country, a new continent.
  Family are never far from our thoughts
anyway, but, come into our sailing life as we see Bird Rock and Twins
Rock.
 We always know we must be near when we
drop through the scales on the chart plotter, now six
miles.
 The Bay of
Islands, in the 1000 Places To See Book, so many rocks, islets and
islands.
  A delighted
captain. Note to self, deal with the elastic in
trousers, I’ll buy you a set of
braces, thank you skipper.
 The ever changing
sky ended up with its own blog.
 All the way in there was a well marked channel. All the way in I had to keep
hitching my trousers and Bear passed me drinks, helped keep an eye out and
watched with me as I helmed, better that way in the half light. The charts were
incredibly accurate and the water below the girl never went below twenty five
feet. What does the above look like in reality........
 .............a wide expanse of water.
Soon we passed the town of Paihia and some anchored
boats.
  A gentle left turn took us to the curved line of four black dots – the Quarantine Dock,
plenty of light from the marina buildings
opposite.
1086 miles completed. In the seven
days and 9 hours or 177 hours, we used the engine for 14, but, had we decided to
sail overnight and get in tomorrow, the total would have stayed at just 3. Our
average speed was quite a high one for Beez at 6.13, how thrilled she is with
that, so are we – Well Done Girl. Our total mileage for this year now stands at
8823.4, bringing our total in five years, six months and ten days to 21,246,01.
Our sailing total overall is 24,491.71.
 22:30 sees Beez
settled Opua, North Island, New Zealand
ALL IN ALL ECSTATIC AND
ELATED
YEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA |