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Coromandel Quest's Home Page - Welcome to our Website! |
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Raukawa Falls Welcome! Feb-March 2009 Pacific Crossing to Fatu Hiva |
Andy seen through the steam of a pool in Rotorua |
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Welcome to our Home Page, which describes our adventures - and rather more pedestrian activities! - on board our Nic 35, Coromandel Quest. We bought her in April 2006 and spent just over a year getting used to her and getting both her and ourselves ready for some long-term cruising. Andy and I left our home port of Blyth, just north of Newcastle upon Tyne in Northumberland on 1 June 2007. Since then we've sailed just over 18,000 miles and we arrived at Marsden Cove, at the entrance to the Whangarei River on 23 October, having left La Libertad in Ecuador on 16 February. We travelled by way of Scotland, the Orkney Islands, Northern Ireland, Eire, and quick dash back to Falmouth then on to La Coruña, Galicia, Portugal, Porto Santo, Madeira, Tenerife and La Gomera before crossing the Atlantic to Barbados. In the West Indies we visited only Barbados, Grenada and Carriacou before heading south to Venezuela, Bonaire and Curaçao, then Panama and the Canal, south to Ecuador and Peru, spending from June 2008 to February 2009 in South America. We spent eight wonderful months travelling in Ecuador and Peru, visiting such sights as Machu Picchu and Ingapirca, and cities as far apart as Puno on Lake Titicaca and Otavalo, back north of the equator. We also visited the high sierras, the dry forest and deserts of the coast and the Amazon rainforest.
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We then left for our Pacific crossing, making landfall in Fatu Hiva before cruising on across French Polynesia, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tonga, then on to New Zealand. In the last month we've done some essential maintenance, both to ourselves and to Coromandel, the latest of which has been the purchase and installation of a new cooker, thanks to the rust on the old one having ceased to hold hands! Coromandel's also had a new mainsail, and had some repairs to the bodged work done back in Portland (near Weymouth in Dorset). In the meantime many of the friends we met across the pacific are arriving in Whangarei to sit out the cyclone season: Han and Carla on Esperanza, Bertil and Agnes on Panacea, Kim, Lars and their two girls on Sumé, Denis and Ria on Sea Topaz. The next few days should see the maintenance finished, then we'll go and explore New Zealand.
This picture was taken at Machu Picchu |
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