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Australia’s Tahiti: Lord Howe Island | Part III
We have ‘booked’ to stay at Lord Howe Island for three days. Our luxury abode is a ‘boutique’ mooring fit for a queen. Turquoise crystal clear water, a kaleidoscope of shapes and colours beneath Fika’s keel, unique mountain peaks and lush vegetation beckoning us ashore. I wish I had booked for three months!
A Change in Plans: Sailing to Lord Howe Island | Part II
We depart from Soldiers Point Marina at the crack of dawn. We have 360nm to sail and with a forecast of 20 knot southerly winds, I have planned on an average speed of 7 knots and a time of 51 hours…
A Change in Plans: Sydney to Noumea Race Postponed | Part I
The Ponant Sydney to Noumea yacht race would have started last Saturday and we would well be on our way to New Caledonia. Somewhere a hundred or two hundred nautical miles northeast of here. Three hours on, three hours off. Racing! Instead, we are sailing towards Brisbane…
The Qualifier: The First Sail Together.
Like a domino effect, we have also entered the Ponant Sydney to Noumea race to be held in May 2024. A race for a race! With each race, there is a qualifying passage.
Vlogs…
Sailing to Lord Howe Island
It was a week before the start date of the Sydney to Noumea race when news of the unfolding civil war in New Caledonia aired. A state of emergency was issued, which left the race committee no choice but to cancel. While the tensions built on the tropical island, it felt almost wrong that from just across the way in Australia, we were reminded of how fortunate we are to be in a position to decide on an alternate offshore sail. Insight is the mountainous spec located in the Tasman Sea, Lord Howe Island.
The Qualifier video.
With this massive offshore sailing event, that will see us sailing 5,500 nautical miles non-stop from the southern to the northern hemisphere, we will need to train and prepare ourselves. And we have picked just the races for that! The Sydney to Noumea and the famous Rolex Sydney to Hobart yacht race. But before we head to the start line of the Sydney to Noumea we must complete an offshore qualifier.
