October 2013

24 Oct The last miles

Kawau Island is for the Happy Few. Only 25 people live here permanently, but there are 8000 houses. Rich people from Auckland own most of them, having a second house here....

22 Oct Great Barrier Island

Russell is a beautiful, sleepy town in the Bay of Islands. Mainly inhabited and visited by older people so it seemed. The shops that one finds are aimed at the guests of  ...

20 Oct Sail out from Auckland, join the ship!

Join the 'Oosterschelde' during the sail out on the 28th of October.

12:00noon - 4:00pm.
A half day sailing, including a light lunch on one of these ...

19 Oct Arrival

After all that work we have arrived at Opua, New Zealand (we also visited Opua on 28 Aug 1997, during our first circumnavigation).
Another beautiful bay, with numerous...

18 Oct An active holiday

A voyage with the ‘Oosterschelde’ is an active holiday, but I think we took this on this voyage to literally. The race started with strong winds, reefing, shaking the reefs...

14 Oct News

After a heavy night followed a cold shower. This morning a front passed. Hours it poured down, the thunder made it more ominous. The wind shift came suddenly but this time...

13 Oct Enough

The have enough of everything on this side of the world. Enough space for everyone. Enough rules for everyone to follow and enough men that see to it everyone does. These ...

11 Oct Prepared

This time we were prepared for the change of weather. This afternoon we felt a little bit weird, with double reefed rigging under quite good circumstances. But when the ...

10 Oct Start of the race

At 2pm this afternoon we sailed past the ‘heads’ to open sea. The starting line for the race to Auckland is about 4 miles from shore and at about 3pm all ships have started...

10 Oct Sydney to Auckland Tall Ships' Regatta started!

Follow the 'Oosterschelde' and click here to see her...