Life afloat
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We’ve been in San Remo for over two months, and I’m starting to get used to some of the strange Italian ways. English is not widely spoken, so many things get a bit lost in translation. Thank goodness for Google Translate. Here are a few examples of day to day life that made me completely…
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There’s no other way to describe the passage from Phuket to Malé in the Maldives….9 days and 1,600nm of shitfulness! There was torrential rain, a leaking hot-water cylinder, which was pouring our fresh water into the bilge. The sealant round the base of the mast gave up, so more water was running into the main…
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Slack…I haven’t written a blog since October. Except I’ve not really been slack, in a nutshell since October we’ve sailed from Langkawi to Phuket, we spent a month up there cruising the national parks and the islands north of Phuket. I successfully completed my STCW course at the Gallileo Maritime Academy at Yacht Haven, Phuket…
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Hey…we’re back on board Innocenti after nine months away. We are no longer home-owners. The only real estate we own is this 42-foot little piece of Aotearoa floating around in Malaysia. Let me attempt to summarise the goings-on of our time away in a single paragraph. Here goes…. We ran out money and couldn’t re-tennant…
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My predictions about a shitty trip to Langkawi were spot on! We checked out of Batam (Nongsa Point Marina) for the 430nm trip to Lankawi with plans to anchor each night, but the wind was blowing from the wrong direction, and none of the recommended anchorages provided any protection from the decent swell. So it…
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We’ve been busy problem-solving! Life is never linear, and wouldn’t it be boring if everything always went according to plan? Our house in Auckland is our income. For the last eight months, that has worked quite nicely… until a month ago. Now we don’t have tenants, and the property managers haven’t been able to find…
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Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. Or at least that’s what I’m telling myself! The passage to Timor was hot and noisy, motoring nearly all the way with virtually no wind. As we turned into the Salat Semau Strait, trying to negotiate fish farm buoys and ships, we got up to…
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A distance of 750nm of remote nothingness is stretched out before us. I’ve pre-cooked meals, we’ve stocked up on snacks, and we estimate that we will be sailing into Darwin in 5ish days time. This will be the longest passage that Imogen has done. For us, it’s the longest since Noumea to Mackay. We departed…
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We schedule an oil and filter change every 150 hours when we’re travelling like this. Every 100 hours if the engine is not being used so often. Innocenti’s engine is a Yanmar 4JH4E it is naturally aspirated and 40kw/55hp @ 3000rpm.
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We took advantage of a couple of days in Townsville to do some jobs. The servicing of the engine being the priority. Innocenti was perched on the edge of the channel in the “Duck Pond” with our keel stuck in the mud at low tide (at least that stopped the rolling) where we changed the…
Cruising Innocenti 