• Patience! Patience! This is Fiji.

    Thanks to The Captain, our trusty weather routing service, Commander’s Weather, now refers to The First Mate as “Nordhaven” Sue.  A Nordhaven is a motor yach [...]

    2017
  • Les Îlots de Nouméa

    Saturday, June 10th – Cleared officially into New Caledonia, we were pleased to find that one of the marina’s small number of visitor berths is available. The usua [...]

    2017
  • Passage to New Caledonia – 2017

    Sunday, May 28th – We arrived at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron in Manly in the early morning to pick up Avante and sail her back to our friend Stephen Everett̵ [...]

    2017