Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Easter 2024
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Windlass motor damage
Wednesday, December 27, 2023
Christmas 2023
Nina flew in early afternoon on the Friday and we sailed without delay. First night in K-Bay then the next day found us fishing on our old fave mark near Bird Island. I had caught one decent cod already, and we soon had 5 more; we headed over to Homestead Bay.
Spent a very pleasant Christmas Day. Around mid-day hooners and biscuiters came out and roared around, which was fun. Then it all went quiet again. Especially towards the end of the day the weather was lovely, hot and calm. I had caught a small snapper already, but in the afternoon—having deployed the prawn heads as burley—Nina was near one of the rods when we caught a big snapper. She reeled in handsomely and (for the first and only time in years) we had actually caught a snapper in sight of Snapper Point... and on Christmas Day!
Boxing Day we loafed about in the morning, and were paid a visit by Brett Stanaway from Seabee, anchored across the way. Seabee is not exactly a sister, being a little smaller than Orion. Like Orion she was built at Paremata. In the afternoon we hauled the anchor by hand and headed in. Nina cooked the snapper on passage and we sat at the table down aft in warm sun.
Saturday, October 28, 2023
Labour Day weekend 2023
We had a couple of good dolphin encounters. It felt very spring-like in the sounds with lots of shearwaters and rarer sooty shearwaters too. Cooler temperatures kept us in the wheelhouse most of the trip. Parked in Ketu two nights and steamed 54 nm.
Saturday, October 14, 2023
Old shipmate
Sunday, June 4, 2023
KBW23
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Beginning-of-winter cruise
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Birthday cruise
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Orion 4771
Artist - Patrick Greene