New Zealand

Customs booked for 1100 tomorrow, Friday Feb 8th. All being well, we will set off as soon as the paperwork is done. ETAEstimated Time of Arrival North Cape NZ about 9 days if the weather is kind. We hope to clear into NZ at Opua in the Bay of Islands and then sail down to Waiheke Island in Hauraki Gulf a few miles from Auckland. We have a ConsultationA regular engagement with alcohol. One might say this whole epic is a Consultation with a bit of a sail round it. See also Conservation Mode; Linear and Parallel Methods of Consultation booked for the weekend of Feb 22nd but we won’t be headbanging deadlines. This time there isn’t a FastnetFastnet Race: 608 mile biennial race from Cowes, UK, Isle of Wight, to the Fastnet Rock off Southern Ireland, finishing in Plymouth. Berrimilla took part in 2005 and 2009. starting gun or a total eclipse out there somewhere and we can relax a bit. This log should be live the whole way over and back as long as I can keep the technology alive. We intend to use the sextant to check that the GPS is working properly on the way. Y’all can send emails to berrimilla2@gmail.com but we won’t be able to pick them up from the boat. Please send them anyway. This time there is no Steve or Speedy to act as filter and forwarding agent but I’ll try to answer when we are back on line. So here goes…