| Profile for Paikea Mist's Ode to Our Shores |
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| Crew: |
Gloria Hanssmann, Michael Hanssmann |
| Hailing Port: |
Vancouver, BC |
| Home Page: |
www.paikeamist.com |
| About: |
We left Vancouver for our Pacific Voyage in July 2009, spending the first summer unwinding in our beautiful cruising grounds of the Pacific Northwest, and getting reading for big adventure. Our journey has taken us down the coast of California into Mexico. We departed from Mexico in March 2010 and dropped the anchor in Atuona, Marquaesas after 18 days at sea. We enjoyed travelling through French Polynesia, Cook Islands, Niue, and Tonga before crossing to New Zealand where we arrived Oct 31 2010. After car cruising and camping through New Zealand that southern summer, we made the passage to Fiji in March 2011. This passage was the toughest yet, but we arrived in Savu Savu safe and sound. We've spent from March to October cruising Fiji, including an extensive trip through the Southern and Northern Lau group, the most remote and least travelled part of Fiji. Here we focused on diving and the unique culture of the outer islands. From Fiji we sailed a second time to New Zealand, a sail through large six meter swells from a previous storm, arriving in the Bay of Islands in early November 2011. We spent the season sailing around the North Island of New Zealand which proved one of the highlights of our entire journey. In April 2012 we sailed from New Zealand to Vanuatua covering the distance in just five days. After cruising north west up the island chain of Vanuatu we crossed the Coral Sea, heading due west for Cairns, Australia. From Cairns we headed north inside the Great Barrier Reef, rounding the horn of Australia 3 years after leaving BC waters. We crossed to Darwin and departed for Indonesia with the Sail Indonesia Rally 2012. Indonesia was an amazing cruising area with diverse culture, sights and wild life, both above and below the sea. We crossed the equator in the middle of the night on our way north through Indonesia, and enjoyed time in Singapore and Malaysia before arriving in Thailand in November 2012. Over 8000 nm of amazing adventure in 2012 can be accessed through our blog. We hope you enjoy our journey as much as we have, and if you have a moment, drop a line, we'd love to hear from you! |
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Our Custom 50 Benneteau has been a comfortable and dependable cruiser. Paikea Mist is equipped with a Code Zero, full spinnaker, 140 % Genoa, Stay sail and a full battened main. Of all the sails we have used the Code Zero the most as we crossed the Pacific. The Code Zero is brought up by halyard and is a furling sail, easy to deploy and fantastic for downwind light air sailing. |
| Vessel Make/Model: |
Beneteau Custom 50 |
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