Cold Front 2
Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Mon 8 Jun 2009 18:53
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Hi Folks,
Well we departed from Opua on May the 26th bound
for Auckland, Devonport to be precise to catch up with the crew of Seabright who
are now land based, they have a beautiful flat overlooking the Hiraki Gulf, you
know the one that the Americas cup was won and lost by NZ, anyway from there
balcony you can see it all, its far enough away from Auckland and a very
pleasant place to live, we recouped for a few days and enjoyed the delights
of looking around for a home for Zephyr, the plan is to bring her down to this
area or maybe to Wellington, it turns out that its not, so we are looking
now at Wellington which has a lift out and a good marina, the snag is the
cruising grounds are over the Cook straight which can be a bit like the channel
to cross, only twelve miles though, some vicious tide rip's , up to 9 knots in
places between the islands so need to get up to speed with the tide flows in
that area, after two years of "no tides" in general it will be a change to have
to consider.
We had a bright idea the last day we were in
Auckland, lets watch the Champion league foot final, trouble was it started a 6
o/c in the morning, we wondered what sought of sad idiots would pitch up to such
an event, a who pub full it turns outs, it was full of phsudo Manchester
United and Barcelona fans , queuing outside to get in, there were steaming
hot bacon butties and beer, which we declined as we had to drive to Napier later
in the day, anyway there was a good atmosphere and lots of beer and coffee was
consumed, the Barcelona fans were ecstatic and the Mancs were very quite which
made a change, it was all over by 8:30 and we trundled off to pack our bags and
get on the road to Napier.
The Road trip Noah's
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