Arrived safely in Port Bundaberg, Australia!

Lots of downwind sailing. All good on board

Lovely sunny morning. All well on board.

All good on board.

Speeding along. Working our way through our stock of French baguettes. All good on board.

Departing Noumea today for Bundaberg, Australia.

Arrived safely at Port Moselle, Noumea. Enjoying fresh baguettes and good coffee.

Listening in on the radio. Great progress overnight. Enjoying a beautiful morning. All well on board.

Corrected lat- long shown here. Enjoying calmer seas and wondering what the rugby scores are!

Enjoying calmer seas and wondering what the rugby scores are!

Checked out of Denarau today for Nouméa. ETA Wednesday morning.

In Denarau getting ready to sail to New Caledonia - hopefully early next week.

Anchored off Daliconi village. On to the Bay of Islands today then Taveuni or Vanua Levu later in the week with S winds.

Still in Bavatu Harbour. Lots of rain yesterday. Thinking of moving over the weekend when the weather clears.

Anchored in Nabavatu Harbour, Vanua Balavu. The only boat here!

Arrived safely in beautiful Savu Savu.

Great progress so far. Enjoying calmer seas and a beautiful morning. All well on board.

Great progress so far. Enjoying calmer seas and a beautiful morning. All well on board.

Racing along in good wind

Anchored at North Minerva reef. Enjoying the sunset over a cold beer. Looking forward to a couple of days R&R before continuing on to Fiji.

Enjoying sunshine and warmer weather. All well on board.

Sailing. All good on board!

Enjoying drier calmer weather.

came through some nasty squalls last night. Expecting more tonight before the weather calms down.

came through some nasty squalls last night. Expecting more tonight before the weather calms down.

motorsailing, all well on board

At Marsden Cove Marina getting Avalon ready for passage in early June up to Savu Savu, Fiji, via Minerva Reef.

Arrived safely in Opua, Bay of Islands early hours of this morning. All good. Now enjoying the after-passage relaxation! Sent from my iPhone

All good on board. Looking forward to arriving in NZ.

Discussing whether to go into opua where eta would be friday evening, rather than marsden on Saturday morning. Stay tuned!

Sailing at last! The wind came up at 16.00. Making great progress on calm seas under a starry sky.

Still motoring. Looks like we?ll get sailing wind later today.

All good onboard, aside from a water maker issue, but made better by being our Italian food day, expertly prepared by our crew buddy Dan. Thanks Tom & Diane

arriving Saturday am marsden Cove. Front comes thru Friday night and saturday but not strong. Very good radio signal but tough to hear at their end. Maybe engine is on..

Planning to depart Saturday morning for Marsden Cove NZ.

Anchored at Kuto, Ile des Pins. Considering the options for our departure date to NZ.

In Port Moselle marina waiting for a weather window to Marsden Cove NZ now that our crew have arrived.

arrived in Lifou and will clear Customs tomorrow.

all well on board on way to lifou

Checked out of Denarau today heading for Lifou.

We’re currently in Musket Cove, Fiji, having just said goodbye to our crew member who returns to the US tomorrow.

arrived yesterday morning - Saturday

currently on last reach to the Navula Reef passage about 15nm away! All good, looking forward to making the reef passage and then relax! Will update on arrival

all well. great radio signal on Avalon

230nm to Fiji so cheerful on board

all well

motor on and all is well

booming signal and good progress.

Enough wind today to sail for the past 3h and 4h yesterday pm. Otherwise careful motoring to conserve fuel. All good onboard. Eating and sleeping well! Hoping to hear more tomorrow morning. (PS GHRadio are not on air on Sundays!).

All well on board

Departing Marsden noon today heading for Vuda

Arrived safely in Marsden Cove. All well on board. Welcomed by fireworks for Guy Fawkes night.

great progress.

thanks to Pilgrim for relay

heard Tom today.

all well. This via email from 360Blue

via tika relay.

on passage to Marsden Cove

Arrived at Vuda Point, Fiji. All well.

250 to Navula pass. The midnight front gave 25- 35g

A big japanese fishing fleet is spread over 38nm east to west. Greater than 10 boats with no AIS.

Later, from Gulf Harbour Radio. This report, and others relating to fishing nets and garbage in the same area, was communicated to the nz RCC. From there it goes to an organisation called ITOC which has representatives from various nz government agencies such as Police, defence, Maritime nz, security Intelligence services, Immigration. Their job is intelligence gathering and they liase with similar overseas agencies. Maritime nz also is involved with MARPOL and through the back door can talk to the Japanese representative. Reports of this sort are important

good radio signal

sailing again after lots of motoring

all ok

I guess the engine is on.

Via relay and they seem to be enjoying the south east winds.

Preparing for passage to Fiji in May

Preparing for passage to Fiji

Arrived at Marsden Cove

COG 160, SOG 8. Strong NE winds

COG. 163, SOG. 7.9

Weather, NE 5-8 knots, 1/2m as swell. Blue sky with clouds forming ahead!

COG 155T, SOG 6.5 knots. Winds and seas are down and now motoring through 1m swells and SE winds 4-7 knots.

420 to go. Friday arrival

COG: 175; SOG: 6.0. Wind: ESE 15-20 Swell: 3m + 1-2 m wind waves

COG 175; SOG 6.5-7. Winds 15-20 ESE

all well

COG 175, SOG 7.7. Wind ESE 17-22, 2-4m swells

all well

ESE winds 15-20+, swells 4-5m.

heading to Marsden Cove

about 10nm sw of pas. Happy landfall

squally conditions

all well

great radio signal