Footnotes from Water Music

Sicily to New Zealand on Water Music Wauquiez Centurion 45

Vessel Name: Water Music
Vessel Make/Model: Wauquiez Centurion 45
Crew: Stephen Foot, Grace Foot, Charlie Foot, Fergus Mutch
08 November 2019
08 November 2019
31 October 2019 | Opua, Bay of Islands
31 October 2019 | Opua, Bay of Islands
27 October 2019 | 250 miles North of New Zealand
26 October 2019 | West of Norfolk Island
25 October 2019 | West of New Caledonia
22 October 2019 | West of New Caledonia
21 October 2019
21 October 2019
21 October 2019 | Musket Cove
20 October 2019 | Navula Passage, Fiji
19 October 2019 | Muskett Cove
14 October 2019
14 October 2019 | Nanuya
12 October 2019
12 October 2019
09 October 2019 | Makongai in Fiji
26 September 2019 | Vanua Mbalvu in the Lau Islands of Fiji
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And so to bed!

31 October 2019 | Opua, Bay of Islands

And so to bed

The last week has passed in something of a blur as we have put the boat to bed and sought to balance this with some more fun things to do in one of the most beautiful parts of the world.

31 October 2019 | Opua, Bay of Islands

Journey's end

When we last completed a blog, we were looking for some wind to get some respite from the mirror flat seas we were experiencing. We found it!

27 October 2019 | 250 miles North of New Zealand

Signs of life

Our position: 30.00S, 170.07E

26 October 2019 | West of Norfolk Island

Turning for New Zealand

Our Position: 26.47S, 169.21E

4 men in a boat

05 January 2019 | En route towards Cape Verde
stephen foot
Good morning - preceding blogs give a pen picture of our world, but to further detail the rigors of life aboard Water an average 24 hours requires 3 hours formal work comprising one night watch, the remaining 21 made up of sleep (quite a lot in Nick's case), eating, drinking, idle banter, fishing, fixing stiff and the odd sail change, the rest we just fritter away. We have our own ships time, having agreed to move back an hour yesterday to match our daily regime to daylight breakfasts and early suppers with the ongoing goal of arriving in Antigua in sync with local time.

Last nights star-studded watches were blissfully uneventful with a fairly calm sea light and occasionally very light winds which took progress down to a slow 2 knots at times. Water Music exudes her own calm when it is like this, the warm glow of the deck level red lighting down below adding to the peace - and the attraction of a sneaky mug of tea whilst the self steering whirs away. The last watch was from 05.00 - 08.00, the shooting stars stopped at around 06:00, the remainder switched off one by one as darkness turned into light with sun up just before 08.00. Breakfast was limited to muesli (Waitrose of course) , amuse bouche of bridge rolls and marmalade and a pot of coffee (too strong for the wingeing Aussie) - we stopped at that due to the excesses of last night. Fishing, gentle bickering and reading are now in full swing with cold beer in prospect followed by lunch. Who knows what the afternoon holds, but the forecast indicates siestas followed by more idle chat, reading and fishing , tea, cake (with thanks to Kate, Grace and Claire Sowry) and our last stew of the trip (probably).

Its a tough life under our skipper (who it has to said is beginning to look a little lived in), but there have been no stern words or court martials - yet...

Thats all

Water Music (gently trundling on).
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