Featured Cruising Boats

Mayotte to Richards Bay, Part 3: – Officials and Machine Guns

Doing an emergency stop can be a delicate matter. Normally stopping in a new country requires you to check in through customs, immigration, etc, howev...

2 months ago

Mayotte to Richard’s Bay, part 2: Breakages

After five days of terrible anchoring at Ilha do Fogo, eight boats made a run for it. There was a brief weather window and we all decided to grab it a...

2 months ago

Mayotte to Richard’s Bay, Part 1: A Fishing Story

We picked a really good window for the first leg of the Mozambique Channel. Whilst it may have been a bit light on the wind, we prefer that to the unp...

2 months ago

The Mozambique Channel – Hopefully not living up to its reputation

We are members of two WhatsApp groups with people sailing the east and south coast Africa, and over the last two week these chat groups have pinged co...

2 months ago

Following On Youtube

La Vagabonde’s New Update (and video!): A Tranquil Evening Turns to Chaos

Boating NZ Website Editorial: My intense like (man-love) of La Vagabonde has been clearly documented in the past, their journeys guided my w...

2 months ago

Following On Youtube

22 Nov Update From La Vagabonde

Sadly again, following on from the previous missed calls and repeated reschedules, and simply not turning up for the call scheduled for yesterday - to...

2 months ago

La Vagabonde III

Update 21 Nov: La Vagabonde’s Silence Leaves Patrons Adrift

Update As at this moment, SLV have just updated the Patreon message as follows. We will find out tomorrow if this call happens or not? ...

2 months ago

Mayotte – where is everyone?!

Well, we are enjoying it. Sailing around the island we stop to snorkel, dive and swim as often as we can. Sadly, we only scheduled our s...

2 months ago

News

Kiwi’s Cruising Through the Zanzibar Coast: Sunsets, Socials, and Surprises

The Zanzibar coast, with its mix of culture, energy, and seaside beauty, is a magical spot for cruisers to anchor and soak up both local life and sere...

3 months ago

Stone Town, Zanzibar Aug 2024

This is the (liberal) English translation of an old Norwegian classic. And annoyingly, this ear-worm of a song rings in my ears - on repeat(!!) - as w...

4 months ago

Gods And Goats, Not All What They’re Hyped Up To Be

I’m not privy to the details of what my sister said in her prayer to Thor with regards to the weather, nor what my brother asked in return for the sac...

4 months ago

When A Series Of Unfortunate Events Force An Unexpected U-Turn

Saturday a week ago we went to drop off a rental car we had hired to take my sister back to the airport. Walking back from having dropped it off, it o...

5 months ago

One Family’s Boating Journey; That sinking feeling

What a shocking end to our summer! We never saw this plot twister coming!

9 months ago

One Family’s Boating Journey: Life lessons

As our two boys, Rafe and Chris, have discovered when you’re living onboard, life will throw you curveballs.

10 months ago

One Family’s Boating Journey; Racing to Whangamata

As we kissed our keel ever so slightly on the sandbar the pit of my stomach sank. Had our luck run out at the last possible moment? How did we get to ...

11 months ago

One Family’s Boating Journey: A bridge too far

The Woodham family’s quest to master safe anchoring continues – starting this time with Islington Bay and its notoriously poor holding.

12 months ago

December 2023

One Family’s Boating Journey: Weather delays and water woes

A couple of weeks before the September 2023 school holidays, Kirsten planned our anticipated two-week sail. We’ve never sailed north of Kawau Island, ...

1 year ago

Happy ending

What a long, great trip it’s been: Massachusetts, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Panama Canal, Galápagos, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Society Islands. The final 3,000...

1 year ago

One Family’s Boating Journey: In the bag

In last month’s article you found me returning to Auckland one day after abandoning a trip out to Sauvage for an afternoon picnic I had planned for my...

1 year ago

CRUISING THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO: Where beauty means danger

With 77 atolls sprawled over 130,000 nautical miles in the South Pacific east of Tahiti, the Tuamotu Archipelago is a stunning ocean treasure. It’s al...

1 year ago

Cruising the Society Islands; Paradise found, glossed, or lost?

Tahiti and the Society Islands have always been many things to many voyagers: a dream, an aspiration, a paradise. What are they now?

1 year ago

October 2023

One Family’s Boating Journey; The first sail of spring: FAIL!

Finally, after a long winter with very little sailing, spring is here and it’s time to return to the water!

1 year ago

August 2023

One Family’s Boating Journey; A picnic too far

As the wave broke over my mother, I knew we had to turn back and that I’d probably never hear the end of our latest adventure. Here’s how we got to th...

1 year ago

August 2023

Marquesas – the real, real world

Tom and Harriet Linskey break their trans-Pacific journey at the isolated Marquesas Islands, halfway between Panama and New Zealand.

1 year ago

June 2023

One Family’s Boating Journey – Leaking windows and weather windows

As I drove Sauvage into the marina, the pitch-black of night engulfed us and I felt my heart hammering. Would I be able to berth us safely in the dark...

2 years ago

Getting to Galapagos

The 830-mile passage from Panama to the Galapagos – the most direct way home for Kiwi circumnavigators or Kiwis coming over from Europe – has a reputa...

2 years ago

May 2023

One Family’s Boating Journey: Tiritiri Matangi and a new tender – maybe

We were so excited – after cyclones and high winds we finally found ourselves with the opportunity for a day excursion on the water.

2 years ago

The short-cut between the seas

Me, go around Cape Horn? Seriously? Do I want to brave roaring high-latitude gales just to earn an earring in my left ear? Um, no!

2 years ago

April 2023

ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY: Ready for offshore adventure

There is something magical and freeing about adventuring beyond New Zealand’s shores, and I feel the mid-year Pacific Rally could draw me closer to th...

2 years ago

April 2023

Puerto Rico to Panama

In the last issue, Tom and Harriet had made it as far as Puerto Rico – two hops out of three on their way to Panama and the Pacific Ocean. This issue ...

2 years ago

March 2023

One Family’s Boating Journey: Simplifying our lives

Fifty metres across the water from where I sit in the sun on Sauvage’s deck lie the red cliffs of Oneura Bay. Yet again, I am struck by the beauty and...

2 years ago

New Bedford to Puerto Rico

Charts exert a powerful pull for New Zealand sailors. Ever since we’d cruised the trade wind ‘Milk Run’ from Acapulco, Mexico, to Bay of Islands, New ...

2 years ago

February 2023

One Boating’s Family Journey: Christmas Day on a deserted island

As desperate as we were to sail extensively over the 2022-23 summer holidays, the staffing needs of our business has meant juggling dates and taking o...

2 years ago