Well, the gurus definitely got off-piste this time. What’s not to like about a coastline of wild storms, incredible vistas, wonderfully welcoming people and cheap beer?  Impossible to capture in a few minutes of video, but what the heck!

Wild, magnificent, untamed. An unparalleled mountain scape carves a magnificent corner, around which two great oceans compete in constant combat, occasional fury. How appropriate that this place marks the entrance to exotic Asia. The charts are littered with the marks of wrecked ships – some 3,000 by all accounts (that’s […]

Well, we got the cat purring. Ressie records of feline fantasies falling fabulously: fastest movement, Maverick at 14.8; fastest douche, Harsol at 19.3 (suck it up Glenda); fastest mounted wave, Pornstar at 19.8. But how far can you cajole a cat?  A ground-breaking 261 miles in a day, apparently, says […]

SO.  There we were.  Rolling along at a comfortable clip, Capt. K waxing lyrical (again….) about cutter rigs in general, and Ressie’s gorgeous gennie in particular. Blah, blah, blah.. Its getting fresh.  Time to reef then.  A simple matter of pressing that magical power-winch button as we ease the sheet.  Grind, […]

Take a piece of New Zealand, drag it north into the tropics; drop in an eclectic mix of ethnicities, colours and shapes; add a twist of essence of France; top with a dollop of EU funding.  What a place – proof that multi-ethnicity, multi-religion societies can truly function; a marvellous […]