Budget sailing
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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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We’re enjoying 18 degrees instead of 33 degrees, sleeping with a blanket and duvet, instead of lying in a puddle of sweat. I’m wearing jumpers and long trousers, not shorts and teeshirts, and waking up to the song of tui, not hornbills and Macaque monkeys. We’re back in Auckland until January, and it was so…
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The landscape in Eastern Indonesia has consisted of dry brown islands and clear blue skies. Then it changed as we neared the equator to lush jungle covered islands and massive puffy cumulus clouds that tend to drop their load in the evening in the form of a cooling squall. We haven’t set foot on land…
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We’ve sailed 600nm in the last week! We’ve got our ears pinned back and making tracks for Langkawi. After our overnight stop at Gili Air and an excellent pizza ashore with all the young European tourists, we set sail for Barwean Island, approximately 250nm (two nights at sea). We enjoyed a rest day at that…
Cruising Innocenti 