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Squamish, BC

We are Steve (from Canada) and Casey (from South Africa) and we are long time water folk! We recently bought a 50 foot aluminium expedition sailboat, our absolute dreamboat! We just splashed her after one year on the hard now we are ready to explore New Zealand and beyond! Ultimate goal is Antarctica and the Arctic! (We currently work in both the film industry and the expedition cruising industry as guides in the Polar Regions and we plan on continuing to work, aiming for 4 months work and 8 months sailing.) Excited to meet fellow cruisers out there living their dream lives!

Casey Raine
Otago Retreat, Waiau Aparima Ward, Western Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 20, 2025

Distance

5.8nm

Avg. speed

2.1kts

Duration

2h 48m

Cuttle Cove to Puyseger Landing
Motored over to anchor up and go for a walk to Puyseger Lighthouse. Super shallow channel coming in so went super slow but well worth it.
Casey Raine
Cuttle Cove, Waiau Aparima Ward, Western Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 19, 2025

Distance

4.5nm

Avg. speed

8.2kts

Duration

33m

Cavern Cove Dinghy
Super cool arches and caverns to explore. Bit of swell!
Casey Raine
Cuttle Cove, Waiau Aparima Ward, Western Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 19, 2025

Distance

35.3nm

Avg. speed

5.8kts

Duration

6h 2m

Dusky to Preservation Inlet
It was a soggy one! 🌧️ But winds higher than forecast (25 knots rather than 10!) so got some downwinding in! 👏 Then wind died off and had to motor the last bit. Beautiful scenery!
Casey Raine
Anchor Island, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 18, 2025

Distance

2.4nm

Avg. speed

5.4kts

Duration

27m

Morning trip
Casey Raine
Anchor Island, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 18, 2025

Distance

2.4nm

Avg. speed

5.4kts

Duration

27m

Outer Many Islands Cruise
Morning cruise in the rain to check out the outer islands before we leave.
Casey Raine
Anchor Island, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 18, 2025

Distance

3.1nm

Avg. speed

4.1kts

Duration

45m

Many Islands Cruise
So epic through all the islands and narrow passes! And tons of fur seal pups AND a shark!! (And for reference, the fur seal pup came up to the GoPro and was super curious!!)
Casey Raine
Anchor Island, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 17, 2025

Distance

6.5nm

Avg. speed

4.5kts

Duration

1h 26m

Off to Luncheon Cove
Short trip this morning to a flipping idyllic spot amongst many islands, tucked away in a cove surrounded by fur seals! On the way got boarded by Department of Conservation who checked our hull (all clean and pest free!)
Casey Raine
Cascade Cove, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 17, 2025

Distance

8.8nm

Avg. speed

3.6kts

Duration

2h 27m

Pickersgill Harbour and Indian Island
Final dinghy explore of the day! Picked up a mooring at Cascade Cove and then dinghied over to where Captain Cook moored his boat at Pickersgill Harbour. Short walk up the boardwalk and the creek to Lake Forster. And then dinghy back via the little islands of Indian Island. Super cool!
Casey Raine
Cascade Cove, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 17, 2025

Distance

7.5nm

Avg. speed

5.6kts

Duration

1h 21m

Earshell Cove to Cascade Cove
Afternoon move to our spot for the evening. What a calm, beautiful day. Happy to find a mooring for the night! 🙌
Casey Raine
Little Harbour, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 17, 2025

Distance

3.4nm

Avg. speed

9.2kts

Duration

22m

Dinghy in the Basin
Went for a little solo rip in the dinghy. The reflections in here were insane! And found where everyone stores their cray pots!!!
Casey Raine
Little Harbour, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 17, 2025

Distance

5.6nm

Avg. speed

5.1kts

Duration

1h 5m

Reposition for a dinghy explore
Quick morning motor to check out Earshell Cove and ‘The Basin’ by dinghy. Just picked up a mooring ball and ripped over to check it out.
Casey Raine
Taumoana (Five Fingers) Marine Reserve, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 16, 2025

Distance

26.2nm

Avg. speed

5.9kts

Duration

4h 26m

Supper Cove to Cormorant Cove
Beautiful day motoring along in Dusky Sound and beautiful little anchorage sunset spot for the night. A day full of extremely narrow passages!!!
Casey Raine
Supper Cove, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 15, 2025

Distance

10.3nm

Avg. speed

5.9kts

Duration

1h 45m

Off for a walk!
Repositioning to go for a short walk along the start of the Dusky track. Beautiful still morning!
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Casey Raine
Cooper Island, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 14, 2025

Distance

2.8nm

Avg. speed

2.6kts

Duration

1h 3m

Paddling inside an island!
Moored inside this island and went for a paddle explore. Sunshine, light winds and no sandflies!! Winning!
Casey Raine
Cooper Island, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 14, 2025

Distance

16.9nm

Avg. speed

5.8kts

Duration

2h 54m

Breaksea Sound to Dusky Sound East
After a rainy, stormy, morning at anchor, with the wind shifting we had to move to a different spot. Incredible mooring inside an island!! Wish I had the drone to show how epic it is 😭
Casey Raine
Second Cove, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 13, 2025

Distance

46nm

Avg. speed

5.6kts

Duration

8h 14m

Evening trip
Casey Raine
Helena Arch, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Southland District, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 11, 2025

Distance

16.1nm

Avg. speed

6.1kts

Duration

2h 38m

Crooked Arm to Deep Cove, Doubtful Sound
Steve had to change fuel filters this morning which meant we left a little later and of course got hit by the heavy rain. Just motoring as the wind tends to funnel down the sounds but then when you turn it flips. Very squirrelly! We had 5 knots all the way up to 37 both upwind and downwind 😂 Picked up a mooring in Deep Cove so will sleep easy tonight!
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Casey Raine
Haulashore Cove, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 10, 2025

Distance

66.1nm

Avg. speed

2.2kts

Duration

1d 5h 26m

Night trip
Casey Raine
Te Houhou/George Sound, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 7, 2025

Distance

24.7nm

Avg. speed

6.2kts

Duration

4h 1m

South and Sporty!
It was gusting 35 (up to 45 knots at one stage!!) and 2.5-3m swell. And heavy heavy rain. Sporty but luckily not far to go. Arrived at a super scenic anchorage next to a waterfall!
Casey Raine
Bounty Haven, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 6, 2025

Distance

34.6nm

Avg. speed

7.7kts

Duration

4h 29m

Sound Hop South
From Milford to Bligh Sound. Just motoring but had to charge the batteries anyway. Crashed the drone while leaving anchorage at Milford 😓 Managed to recover it but it was in the ocean so most probably dead… Then dolphins (massive bottlenose!) to cheer me up in Bligh Sound. Found a cosy little anchorage with two stern lines and a TON of sand flies. (Forgot to stop recording, we actually arrived at about 5/5:30)
Casey Raine
Harrison Cove, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 4, 2025

Distance

2.4nm

Avg. speed

2.9kts

Duration

50m

Harrison Cove Paddle
After 2 full days of TORRENTIAL rain, it finally stopped long enough to pump up the paddleboard and go for a little explore! So beautiful!
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Casey Raine
Harrison Cove, Mararoa Waimea Ward, Fiordland Constituency, Southland, New Zealand • Apr 3, 2025

Distance

446.4nm

Avg. speed

5.3kts

Duration

3d 12h 6m

Abel Tasman to Fiordland!
Our longest passage yet with a move time of 84hrs 6 mins!!! Our max speed was 10.6 knots, average 5.7kts. What a mixed bag!! The first day was beating upwind in 20+ knots, the second day and night were very little wind, so had to motor a fair bit. We got really good at taking the sail up and down! 😂 And then winds on and off and finally from about halfway through the third day the winds started to pick up beyond 10 knots. 👏 We were downwinding in 15-25 knots with 3 metre swell (but a long period) through the night and into our 4th day, it was great! We were really trying to maintain progress as we were trying to beat a weather system that was due to arrive the day we were due to arrive. We made it! We were able to sail right into Milford Sound, Fiordland, tacking more than half way down the fiord. Then we lost all wind and so put the sail away and wow, motored over to a waterfall and found our anchoring spot, SO BEAUTIFUL! First time using the stern line!
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Casey Raine
Mutton Cove, Golden Bay Ward, Ngāti Tama Ki Te Tau Ihu, Tasman, New Zealand • Mar 29, 2025

Distance

7.8nm

Avg. speed

6.3kts

Duration

1h 14m

Motor to Mutton Cove
Getting ourselves positioned and ready for our 5am departure south tomorrow down the west coast!
Casey Raine
Tonga Island Marine Reserve, Golden Bay Ward, Ngāti Tama Ki Te Tau Ihu, Tasman, New Zealand • Mar 29, 2025

Distance

4nm

Avg. speed

2.7kts

Duration

1h 29m

Paddle to see the baby seals!
Went to check out the local hang out fur seal pups and saw some bonus dolphins on my way back!!! 👏😍
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Casey Raine
Tonga Island Marine Reserve, Golden Bay Ward, Ngāti Tama Ki Te Tau Ihu, Tasman, New Zealand • Mar 27, 2025

Distance

4.1nm

Avg. speed

6.1kts

Duration

41m

Morning Hop
When we couldn’t go on our big sail we decided to reposition to the anchorage we were at yesterday so I could go hang out with fur seal puppies!!! 🥰
Casey Raine
Awaroa Bay, Golden Bay Ward, Ngāti Tama Ki Te Tau Ihu, Tasman, New Zealand • Mar 27, 2025

Distance

8.5nm

Avg. speed

3.9kts

Duration

2h 12m

False start…
After agonizing over the weather forecast we finally decided to set sail at 8pm which looked like our best weather window to round Cape Farewell. Started off well with downwind cruising at 6 knots but quickly dropped off. On checking the forecast AGAIN it had dropped off for the night so instead of aimlessly motoring through the night we pulled into the next anchorage (where we happened to walk to this morning). Let’s see what tomorrow brings… 🥴🫠
Casey Raine
Tonga Island Marine Reserve, Golden Bay Ward, Tasman, New Zealand • Mar 26, 2025

Distance

12nm

Avg. speed

6.4kts

Duration

1h 52m

Abel Tasman Anchorage Hop
No wind so a little motor anchor hop to wait out until there’s some more wind! 🌬️
Casey Raine
Kaiteriteri Inlet, Motueka Ward, Tasman, New Zealand • Mar 26, 2025

Distance

24.6nm

Avg. speed

6.1kts

Duration

4h 2m

Nelson to Abel Tasman
Need to decide whether we head to the south via the east or west coast… But after a couple of days in Nelson at the marina I had itchy feet to get going. It was great to get the sails up and actually had a pretty awesome sail! Cruising at consistently 8-9 knots so that was nice! We pulled in to an anchorage sooner than planned as we were losing the daylight. A shallow bay so just lifted the keel up! 👌
Casey Raine
Nelson Marina, Nelson, New Zealand • Mar 23, 2025

Distance

33.4nm

Avg. speed

4.9kts

Duration

6h 45m

Off to Nelson
Time for some ‘big city’ vibes as we have a few errands to do. The wind was forecast to be very light but luckily it picked up (including randomly gusting to 25 knots a few times!), so we could sail the whole way south. Beautiful leaving at sunrise this morning 💕
Casey Raine
Whangarae Bay, Marlborough Sounds Ward, Marlborough, New Zealand • Mar 22, 2025

Distance

25.3nm

Avg. speed

6.8kts

Duration

3h 43m

Motor through French Pass
Not much wind today and we had to motor through French Pass anyway so just motored and juiced up the batteries. French Pass was a little nerve wracking as current can be at 8 knots and navigable channel is less than 100 meters wide… we timed it at slack and was all smooth! Nice stop off at a quiet little bay tonight before we continue to Nelson.
Casey Raine
Rangitoto ki te tonga/D'Urville Island, Marlborough Sounds Ward, Marlborough, New Zealand • Mar 21, 2025

Distance

34.3nm

Avg. speed

5.2kts

Duration

6h 33m

Marlborough Sounds Downwinding
Wow, night and day conditions sailing today compared to yesterday!! Beautiful downwinding with 15 knots of wind. Perfection. Wind died completely with 4nm to go so motored the last bit. Beautiful anchorage and greeted by a fur seal!!
Casey Raine
Arapaoa Island, Marlborough Sounds Ward, Marlborough, New Zealand • Mar 20, 2025

Distance

144.9nm

Avg. speed

5kts

Duration

1d 5h 15m

Crossed from the North Island to the South Island! 🇳🇿
Big sail and crossed the notorious Cook Strait!! Yesterday started with zero wind then started to build as forecast and just kept on building. Long night with 25-30 knots of wind and 2-3 metre seas. Beating into it. 🫠 Continued the whole next day, but eventually turned to downwinding 👏 Longest sail to date and proud of ourselves for some pretty challenging sailing conditions! Now, sleep 😴
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Casey Raine
South Pacific Ocean, Wairarapa Constituency, Wellington, New Zealand • Mar 17, 2025

Distance

123.7nm

Avg. speed

5.2kts

Duration

23h 40m

Napier to Castlepoint
A real mix of zero wind to gusting 35 knots. Motor sailing to all three sails out to two reefs in the main. No sleep. On arrival discovered our shaft seal is leaking substantially. Have to potentially back track and go out on the hard. Again. 😭
Casey Raine
Hawke's Bay, Ngaruroro Constituency, New Zealand • Mar 15, 2025

Distance

122.6nm

Avg. speed

5.1kts

Duration

1d 16m

🎶 Making our way down South 🎶
Another successful overnight sail! Light winds but we kept sailing! And only had to turn on the motor right at the end as the wind died off 👏 Found a beautiful little anchorage for the night and then we will maybe head to the marina to check out Napier town tomorrow 😊
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Casey Raine
Tolaga Bay, Gisborne, New Zealand • Mar 13, 2025

Distance

13.5nm

Avg. speed

5.6kts

Duration

2h 26m

Motor Sail Bay Hop
Not too much wind so a short motor sail to the next bay south. We will wait here until this afternoon/evening and see if the wind picks up to carry on south.
Casey Raine
Anaura Bay, Gisborne, New Zealand • Mar 12, 2025

Distance

178.2nm

Avg. speed

6.4kts

Duration

1d 3h 59m

Back in the water and headed south! 👏
Back in the water after a 5 week haul out due to work (but we went to Antarctica so not a bad contract!). Got a nice weather window to head around the East Cape. 👌 And beautiful escort by a dozen dolphins for a while!!! Happy heart! Headed to Fiordland!! (Don’t think that max speed is right 🤣)
Casey Raine
Pilot Bay, Mount Maunganui-Papamoa Ward, Tauranga Constituency, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand • Jan 30, 2025

Distance

18.1nm

Avg. speed

5.2kts

Duration

3h 29m

Final sail (for a while) back to Tauranga
Perfect conditions for a final sail, just went in at low slack to anchor at Pilot Bay. Then we will motor over to the marina at High slack ready for tomorrow morning. Putting the boat on the hard tomorrow for a month while we go back to work! Will miss it but looking forward to exploring the New Zealand SubAntarctics and the Ross Sea for work 😍 🐧 🦭 🐋 🧊
Casey Raine
Bay of Plenty, Tauranga Constituency, New Zealand • Jan 29, 2025

Distance

41.3nm

Avg. speed

5.3kts

Duration

7h 46m

Motohura Island to Motiti Island
Great sail! Started the day with about an hour of motoring as low winds again and then it just kept picking up. One reef in by the end of the day as consistently above 25 knots. Lots of tacking as our destination was pretty much directly upwind. A little swelly and blustery and just loved it! Great day, just felt so content and happy 💕 ⛵️
Casey Raine
Moutohora Island, Eastern Bay of Plenty Constituency, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand • Jan 28, 2025

Distance

1.2nm

Avg. speed

3.8kts

Duration

18m

Anchor Hop
Just decided to move to the other anchorage off the island as the other one was a little small/shallow and this one has better protection from the wind. Beautiful sunset on the way!
Casey Raine
Moutohora Island, Eastern Bay of Plenty Constituency, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand • Jan 28, 2025

Distance

33.5nm

Avg. speed

6.1kts

Duration

5h 29m

50/50 Motor/Sail
Started the day with no wind (less than 5 knots) so first half was motoring 👎 But we put the sails up anyway just in case and luckily the wind picked up!! So second half was sailing and consistent 15ish knots, up to 20/22 so yay! Also a pod of dolphins came by to say hi! Very quick but quite a big pod and the water was so clear you could see them swimming along! 😍 Anchored off of Whale Island, can’t go ashore as wildlife reserve (I really need a walk, it’s been 3 days!!!) but I did go for a snorkel and it was awesome! Eagle ray, tons of little fish, some really big fish and a fur seal on the rock! 😍
Casey Raine
Omaio Bay, Eastern Bay of Plenty Constituency, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand • Jan 27, 2025

Distance

84.8nm

Avg. speed

6.2kts

Duration

13h 41m

Mega Sail Day
Phew! What a day. Started out sporty with 20-25kts consistent and gusting 35kts. Then turned downwind and it mellowed right out. Max boat speed 11.8 knots baby!!! Unfortunately the place we were planning on anchoring wasn’t suitable and next spot was another 30nm away… so a biiig day. Big winds. Winds died then picked back up very quickly. Snapped our 2nd reef line 😬 So had to go for 3, but with 30+ gusts probably a good thing! Sporty. Aaand coming into the anchorage in the dark in 25 knots of wind.. 😬 But success. 😮‍💨
Casey Raine
Mayor Island/Tūhua, Western Bay of Plenty Constituency, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand • Jan 23, 2025

Distance

33.4nm

Avg. speed

5.2kts

Duration

6h 24m

Beautiful Belated Birthday Sail!
Due to no wind yesterday, counting this as my birthday sail. 😆 Perfect amount of wind and long enough to even sit and read a little. We arrived at a stunning anchorage with clear water. Bliss.
Casey Raine
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand • Jan 22, 2025

Distance

16.7nm

Avg. speed

3.5kts

Duration

4h 50m

Birthday (Motor) Sail!
No wind so unfortunately had to motor but nice to be back out on the water and moving after a week at the marina!
Casey Raine
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand • Jan 13, 2025

Distance

44.1nm

Avg. speed

4kts

Duration

11h

Downwinding down the Coast! 🌬️ 🌊
We stopped at Whangamata to check out the cool cave/Donut Island on the way. We were going to stay overnight here but we had made good time and it was pretty swelly so we kept going all the way to Tauranga! Long day but really good sailing. Some upwind, lots of downwind. Downwinding is the best!
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 12, 2025

Distance

6.6nm

Avg. speed

3.8kts

Duration

1h 44m

Slipper Island
Bit of a motor sail as winds not as forecast. But headed over to Slipper Island to get protection from the swell. Gorgeous little beach, paddle boarded, snorkelled and relaxed.
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 11, 2025

Distance

7.6nm

Avg. speed

2.5kts

Duration

3h 6m

Slow Sail South
We still managed to get the sails up for our short hop south but very light (less than 10 knots). We weren’t in any rush and didn’t have far to go so enjoyed the quiet, slow travel. Forgot to take any photos 😬 Looks like we landed in paradise though! Beautiful little bay!
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 10, 2025

Distance

5.2nm

Avg. speed

1.2kts

Duration

4h 28m

Hahei to Hot Water Beach
(Something happened to the tracking, it was only about an hour or two.) Light winds and short distance but instead of just motoring we put the Genoa out and sailed slowly downwind. A nice gentle 3 knots to cruise down the coast. A little swelly anchorage but little to no wind.
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 10, 2025

Distance

5.5nm

Avg. speed

5.2kts

Duration

1h 3m

Hop to Hahei
Zero wind (well, like 3 knots) so we motored over to Hahei where the plan was to hike over to Cathedral Cove. Anchored off the beach. Beautiful morning.
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 8, 2025

Distance

16.5nm

Avg. speed

5.2kts

Duration

3h 11m

Tacking down the ‘Hole in the Wall’
Super nice sail! Wind consistently between 15-17 knots, just perfect! We were headed pretty much upwind so tacked down the Hole in the Wall channel. Cruising along quite comfortably between 5 and 8 knots and all three sails out 👌 Feeling like we are getting more efficient at this whole sailing thing! 😄 Happy days!
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 8, 2025

Distance

13.8nm

Avg. speed

5.1kts

Duration

2h 41m

Back to Opito
Back to Opito Bay for the night after a quick visit to Great Mercury Island yesterday before continuing south tomorrow. Really nice sail! One reef in but had the main, jib and Genoa out and cruised along super comfortably! The wind was 15-18kts consistently with a few gusts meant we were cruising along at 8 knots for a little while! 10.2 knots max 🙌 Gusting to 20+ right when we had to get the main sail down of course 😅 but we got there! Planning on leaving early in the morning for Whitianga just around the corner as need to do some provisioning!
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 7, 2025

Distance

10.9nm

Avg. speed

4.4kts

Duration

2h 30m

Motor to Mercury (Island)
We tried sailing initially, just had the Genoa out to try and figure out the right trim. But had 0-3 knots, sometimes 5 so we eventually furled it in and decided to motor. Didn’t have far to go anyway. Our original planned stop was totally packed with people so we kept going to our anchorage for the night.
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 5, 2025

Distance

15.5nm

Avg. speed

4.2kts

Duration

3h 40m

Squirrelly Squally Sail 🐿️
The wind was very squirrelly and all over the place today. Changed almost 180° in the course of a couple of hours! Also ended up changing anchorage plans with the different wind direction. Went to Opito Bay/Point instead of Mercury Island. Got very cold and wet in the rain at the end and gusting to 25knots!
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 5, 2025

Distance

4.6nm

Avg. speed

4.4kts

Duration

1h 3m

Motor for the Store…
Quick run to the store, no wind so just motored and had a little walk along the beach and some breakfast and then the wind seemed to be picking up so could sail once we left.
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 3, 2025

Distance

22.7nm

Avg. speed

4.5kts

Duration

5h 1m

Spicy Sail South 🌶️ 🌬️
Pretty consistent gusts of 30-37 knots! First portion was pretty chill downwind sail and then it got a little sporty! Ended up with just the main out and two reefs. Found a decent spot to anchor. Sitting out the weather here for the next two days. Hopefully we don’t drag ⚓️
Casey Raine
Waikato, New Zealand • Jan 1, 2025

Distance

34.5nm

Avg. speed

5kts

Duration

6h 58m

Heading back to the mainland
Headed south from the holidays in Great Barrier Island. Two reefs in and just the jib out for most of the way with consistent 20-25 knots, gusting up to 32. Nice sail!
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 29, 2024

Distance

24.4nm

Avg. speed

4.6kts

Duration

5h 21m

Rounding the North!
Pretty chill downwind on the first half and then a rather sporty second half with gusts up to 28 knots. My type of sailing!! 🤩
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 23, 2024

Distance

40.6nm

Avg. speed

5.4kts

Duration

7h 28m

Waiheke to Great Barrier Island with DOLPHINS 🐬
Our longest sail to date! To the beautiful offshore island of Great Barrier. Joined by gannets, petrels and dolphins!!! 🤩 Top boat speed of 9.3 knots 🙌
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 22, 2024

Distance

13.5nm

Avg. speed

3.9kts

Duration

3h 28m

Sunday Sailing ⛵️
Such a beautiful sail! The wind was perfect, the sunshine out and happiness all around 💗 And finishing in a beautiful anchorage for the evening!
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Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 20, 2024

Distance

21.1nm

Avg. speed

4.6kts

Duration

4h 38m

Waiheke North to South
Wind shifting to the north so we moved over to the southern side of the island.
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 17, 2024

Distance

22.6nm

Avg. speed

4.9kts

Duration

4h 36m

Our sailing debut just the two of us 💕
It was sporty for our first sail just the two of us! Winds at 18-20 knots gusting 25! Started with a few reefs and the job just to be safe and then as the wind settled let out the full main, Genoa and jib. Max boat speed 10.3 knots baby!!! 🙌 Not bad for a couple of newbies.
Casey Raine
North Shore, Hauraki, Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 15, 2024

Distance

17nm

Avg. speed

3.7kts

Duration

4h 38m

Sailing into Auckland!
Well, motoring as no wind. But still! Last day of our course, brain very full of learnings!
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 14, 2024

Distance

35.6nm

Avg. speed

3.7kts

Duration

9h 39m

Still shaking her down
Orca in the morning, engine/battery issues in at lunch and flew the spinnaker in the afternoon! That’s boat life! High highs and low lows!🤩🫠
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 14, 2024

Distance

35.6nm

Avg. speed

3.7kts

Duration

9h 33m

Orca at the Anchorage!!!
Some motoring, some engine issues, some sailing. Got the water maker and wind generator going and the spinnaker up for the first time!! 🤩 Oh ye, and saw ORCA at our anchorage in the morning!!! 😱🥰🥰🥰
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 13, 2024

Distance

20.8nm

Avg. speed

3.4kts

Duration

6h 6m

Tack Day ⛵️
Beautiful day, practicing putting some reefs in and anchoring!
Casey Raine
Auckland, New Zealand • Dec 12, 2024

Distance

48nm

Avg. speed

5.6kts

Duration

8h 34m

Sailing South
Got some wind and a couple of hours of sailing before we had to turn the motor on as the wind died. Some wing on wing sailing before it did! Picked up a mooring buoy in the dark in somewhat sporty conditions!
Casey Raine
One Tree Point 0118, New Zealand • Dec 12, 2024

Distance

9.7nm

Avg. speed

3.2kts

Duration

3h 2m

First official sail!
Got the sails up!!!! 🤩🙌 Also docked in 20 knots of wind 🌬️
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Casey Raine
One Tree Point 0118, New Zealand • Dec 11, 2024

Distance

16.5nm

Avg. speed

3.2kts

Duration

5h 9m

Finally on the water after a 6 month refit!
I don’t know if you’d call it a shakedown or a sea trial but the first day after splashing! Over one year after purchasing and 6 months refitting, it was a big day! Lots of issues but we will hopefully figure them out… Didn’t even take any photos 😓
Casey Raine
Bay of Plenty, Tauranga Constituency, New Zealand • Jan 22, 2025

Distance

17nm

Avg. speed

4kts

Duration

4h 14m

Afternoon trip
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