We finally found a boat after almost a year of looking. Previously named “Tuscany” we have renamed her “Hiraeth” – a bit of Welsh in the Pacific ocean!
The previous owners - Ciel & Angie Tierra – sailed her from San Fransico around the Pacific and then New Zealand. So she has done a fair few ocean miles!
Our maiden voyage in Hiraeth started from Whangarei, our destination – Lyttelton.
We cruised around various islands, anchoring up overnight, generally enjoying the end of the summer weather. Gisborne was a welcome stop over after rounding East Cape. From here we did our first overnight sail into Napier.
We were holed up in Napier for almost 2 weeks due to bad weather – but this gave us a chance to meet up with other cruisers. Tom Jones was playing at the Mission concert on St Davids day and we managed to get tickets – disappointing that very little knicker-throwing went on!!
Finally we had a good weather window & set off for the top of the South Island. Strong winds off Cape Palliser gave us a bit of a pasting – and we hove-to for a few hours. A southerly change was on it’s way – so we headed in for Wellington (70 hours after leaving napier).
Our last leg from Wellington to Lyttelton was pretty uneventful – pretty exciting to see a whale off the Kaikoura peninsula.
We were back in Christchurch – and we had a bit of work to do on the boat!
4 comments:
Absolutly Fantastic. May I be one of the 1st to wish you both safe (and exiting) travels. There are many uncommonly envious people back here, non more so that me!! I'll spread the word about this blog, you can be sure that there'll be lots support and interest....and dry retching (in my case)! POB LWC
Hi steve and sue teg has been trying to contact you but keeps getting the email address wrong can you email us with your address and we wait to see further updates from july onwards dave
hi steve and sue we are trying out this blog[again] but we can't seem to get through dave and teg
I was just doing a search to find Ciel and Angie's Blog. I was interested to see how their cruising was going and I found this blog. Congratulations on Acquiring Hiraeth!
I built the Dodger etc on your boat just before it left San Francisco!
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