One of the advantages of reaching a certain age is that you know what you want and aren’t afraid to ask for it. The owner of this Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 490, having owned a slightly smaller Jeanneau for more than 20 years, knew he’d come back for more when it came time to upgrade.
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SAILING A LEGEND
Sailing my childhood dream yacht – Gipsy Moth IV – was a fantasy come true, recalls Kevin Green.
THE RIME & THE ALBATROSS
Readers of my vintage may remember – probably not fondly – being forced as school children to rote-learn passages from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It’s a lengthy, somewhat obscure poem, but literary merits aside, perhaps its greatest legacy is kick-starting the seabird conservation movement.
THE LIVES OF KNIVES
A good knife is a mariner’s best friend.
LITTLE BEAUTY
A brief look at the short end of ocean cruising.
What’s the wind doing?
New Zealanders are obsessed with the weather – a side effect of living on a narrow group of islands in the middle of a wild ocean. And boaties, of course, are more obsessed than the general population. Even when not planning a race, cruise or fishing trip, they like to keep a weather eye.
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BOATING HISTORY
Dumas in New Zealand
There have been many solo ocean passages and circumnavigations, but few as challenging in concept and timing as that of Argentinian Vito Dumas in his ketch Lehg II.
Steeple-chasing the Otago mole: Professor R.J. Scott & Yvonne
Yvonne was one of nine entrants manoeuvring for the start of the Otago Yacht Club’s Rudder Cup Ocean Race to Oamaru and back.