Arrived! No damage at all, which seems like a wonder talking to other people of whom many tore sails in the front we had. I wonder why we sailed to New Zealand; it's grey, cold, wet, many rules. Miss the tropics already!!!!

Yesterday we had around 15 hours a counter current of 1.5 - 2 knots! Around 3AM luckily we got rid of it. Sailing nicely at around 6-7 knots at the moment. Sunny. Beautiful day and well in the twenties still! :-)

eta Monday night

18nts SW gusting last hour to 25, saw biefly late thirties ths night at 3 AM and the wind shifted incredibly fast wind pilot did all the time a course of 200 degrees and within seconds he steered 90 degrees, after that the wind direction stayed like that and we adjusted the course to close hauled, 2-3 meter seas from two directions, short period, 40% cloud cover but towering cumulus and gusty. All is well but not very comfortable at this moment :-)

Yesterday and all night we've been a motor boat. NO wind AT ALL. But very smooth comfortable seas so we enjoyed it nevertheless and did a lot of things on board like cleaning the dinghy on deck, printing pictures, writing the blog etc :-) The wind just picked up a bit and will keep on increasing...

It was another beautiful blue water sailing day yesterday! Good speed with nice winds and sunny clear skies. Since we see the whispers coming, we know it's changing but hopefully we will be north enough to avoid the worst. Still sunny skies at the moment and very light winds but in the right direction :-)

It was another beautiful blue water sailing day! The only clouds were few cute fair weather cumulus and for the rest sunshine and a small breeze. Only thing that could have been better was the direction of the wind, it's been (and still is) from the SW, the direction we want to go. But it's not too bad since it's better to stay north for a while because otherwise we will get hammered too much by the Fr-Sa front.

Yesterday was no wind at all after late morning. We briefly stopped with three boats Margansie, Lionheart and Omweg. Frans (Omweg) and Ray (Lionheart) both went swimming to Margansie and shared some stuff, we got freshly caught fish and a delicious cake from Margansie :-D We're enjoying the warm sunny weather during the last day.

It's been a good day yesterday, now winds dropping and we're not happy with the newest gribs...

Happily slowly sailing on almost flat sea and mostly very little wind without using engine, in the meantime weaving a basket :-) ETA Minerva today in the morning, we're almost there.

Happily slowly sailing on almost flat sea and mostly very little wind without using engine, in the meantime weaving a basket :-)

Happily slowly sailing on almost flat sea and mostly very little wind without using engine, in the meantime weaving a basket :-) ETA Minerva today in the morning, we're almost there.

Happily slowly sailing on almost flat sea and mostly very little wind without using engine, in the meantime weaving a basket :-)

198 from N Minerva.

Hi everyone, Omweg is doing well! The crew as well :-)

Omweg is an aluminium 38ft sloop rigged sturdy mono hull. We are the second owners and sailed her from Canary Islands (Spain), we started in september of 2015.