Cruising on Destiny

02 January 2014 | Bantry Bay
Nice slow start to 2014
31 December 2013 | Careening Cove, Sydney
Sydney on NYE - buzzing!
18 December 2012 | Sydney
Compression sickness
18 September 2012 | Coffs Harbour
Homeward
14 September 2012 | Rivergate Marina, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Never trust a cold front....
12 September 2012 | Coral Sea
Re-routed
10 September 2012 | Coral Sea
Beam reach heading home
31 August 2012 | Noumea
A good week for cruising in the lagoon
26 August 2012
Land touring
22 August 2012 | Port Moselle
Being tour guides
19 August 2012 | Port Moselle
Welcome visitors again
17 August 2012 | West Coast, New Caledonia
Baie de Saint Vincent
12 August 2012 | Anse Vata
Cycling out of town
10 August 2012 | Port Moselle, Noumea, NC
Catching breath
10 August 2012 | Port Moselle
South to Noumea
30 July 2012 | The seawall, Vila Harbour
Resting and socialising in Port Vila
25 July 2012 | Back in Port Vila
Sunny Vanuatu???
17 July 2012 | Port Vila
Visitors, and an electrifying experience
08 July 2012 | Ashore with Sea Fever
In and Out of Vila
24 June 2012
Port Vila - Konichiwa!

All's well

31 May 2012 | Coral Sea 26 34S 161 50E
John and Shauna
It's Friday morning and the conditions are a little more civillised. Swell is about 2 - 2.5m and wind is ESE at 20 - 23kn. We are heading to windward which is never ideal but we are stable enough to read, cook, watch movies on the iPad and the new enclosed rigid cockpit cover is keeping us dry inside - Shauna's wearing sheepskin slippers and looking pretty relaxed. Looks likely to be Noumea Sunday overnight or Monday during the morning.
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Vessel Name: Destiny V
Vessel Make/Model: 45' round chine steel cruising cutter - a Joe Adams design and a very sea-kindly crew-friendly vessel
Hailing Port: Sydney, Australia
Crew: John and Shauna
About:
People ask us: "Are you semi-retired?". Well no, we're semi-working. We love cruising, but the problem is we also quite like what we do in our civilian lives. So, for the last few years, we have been cruising over the southern Winter and Spring. [...]
Extra:
Our last severalyears of cruising have been spent exploring New Caledonia and the beautiful islands of Vanuatu, an entrancing country with wonderful, uncomplicated, happy and generous people. This winter we are at home doing some upgrades - navigation, rigid cockpit cover, watermaker and sundry [...]

Destiny's Crew

Who: John and Shauna
Port: Sydney, Australia
Sunshine on blue water, twelve knots on the beam.... The trades are blowing gently and we're sailing like a dream..... Sipping from the cup of life and getting mostly cream....
"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats" - Ratty to Mole in "Wind in the Willows"