Day 1 Position Report 36:22.43S 174:53.28E - Delivery of Yacht Akatea to Melbourne from Auckland

Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Wed 7 Jan 2009 02:45
Well just to give everyone a run down on the crew and the destination, Myself as Captain, James Reynolds as 1st Mate and Joseph Stonich as Crew.

The Position report is timed as at 1541 07/01/09. We had quite an interesting morning we had to persuad the Duty free shop to open early to sell us some cigerettes and then we had to kidnapp one of the staff to accompany us to the quanrantine berth from Westhaven. The staff member didn't seem too concerned and enjoyed himself.

As of now we are heading up the east coast of New Zealand and are motor sailing as there is very little wind at present, which is a trend we expect to see for another couple of days yet...but we live in hope.

So I'll post another report tomorrow with hopefully with a little bit more interesting news.

Cheers from the delivery crew of Akatea.