Category: sv evi
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What the Gerwindestangen+Messingprofile???
I love mucking about on boats, always have. As comfortable as I feel delving into any project, in reality, I mostly stumble through most tasks. Learning evi has been a joy, even when contorting my body into positions, blindly reaching into an oily void searching for the important nut I reminded myself not to drop…again. The…
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Happy 8th Birthday Jade!
I was worried about how to make Jade’s birthday special seeing as the cruising community is so fluid — but I needn’t have worried! The cruisers understand the importance of community, and our friends all showed up. We celebrated with a party on the beach in Paihia, on Sunday at 4 pm. We arrived to…
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A weekend of firsts
This past weekend we joined our friends Taylor, Brad & Rex from SV Pangea in a bay near Waewaetorea Island. The water was so clear! We tried a lot of fun water activities for the first time in New Zealand. Saturday night in the anchorage a pod of 11 dolphins were playing between the boat…
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Sushi night!
Taylor used to be a sushi chef, and started her own restaurant called Sushi Girl in Kaui, Hawaii. On Friday she came over to make sushi with us. It was so fun! Jade said, “Taylor, your meals are funner than Mama’s meals.” 🙂 And it’s true. We learned how to cool the rice by cutting…
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oh, the birds!
New Zealand is a real birder’s paradise. There are so many, so varied and colorful, and loud! And many unique birds because of the isolation of the islands of New Zealand, and the lack of mammalian predators (until the Māori arrived from Polynesia, and after them, the Europeans). I’ve been loving hiking around and trying…
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Moments of delight
Last night after a glorious day hiking with friends and hosting friends for dinner on our boat, the kids wanted to go swimming at 8:15 pm. The water was flat calm, the sky was pink and orange, and I was just watching some White-fronted terns dive into the water. The kids put on their wetsuits…
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Paihia School
All the classes start each day with a karakia (prayer) and a hīmene (hymn) in te reo Māori, the Māori language. This is the karakia which they say first in te reo, then in English: in te reo Māori: Kia hora te marino Kia whakapapa pounamu te moana Hei huarahi mā tātou i te rangi…
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Exploring Northland
A few weekends ago the kids and I went on a 5 mile hike to Rainbow Falls. It was beautiful! We also spent one day at the beach in Paihia — the kids played in the waves in wetsuits for about 4 hours. And we visited the public toilets in Kawakawa, designed by the famous…
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New friends and boat projects
We met John, Caroline, Dalton & Hall from Charleston, South Carolina on SV Nogal, and enjoyed a few days of dinners together and lots of kid play time. When they pulled up the anchor Sunday morning Tomu said, “aww, they’re leaving already?” And Jade has said repeatedly, “I miss our friends Dalton & Hall.” We…
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We finally cut the marina cord…
and are living life at anchor in Matauwhi Bay, near to the town of Russell. This means that we take the kids across the channel in the morning with the dinghy. There are always less waves in the morning than the afternoon. The kids are all keen to take turns driving the dinghy, and trying…
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