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• That was a long nap... Hi all, I left New Zealand back in mid November, in order to head back to Italy where my beloved Gaby and my dad were waiting for me. Since then we have been busy (not really) with routine medical checks and tests, Christmas and New year celebrations. Visiting parents and friends is the name of the game during the festivities. Now that Gaby is getting more and more pregnant every day, traveling has become a luxury; even our swimming sessions that we started in December have now been scaled back. We are expecting the main event sometimes in early February so we'll keep you posted. 149 Views , Posted 01-07-2010, 12:00 AM by to The Pacific

• Passage to NZ - Landfall After 1100 miles and almost 8 days at sea we are safely docked at the Customs dock in Opua. More to follow... now I'm going to bed. 175 Views , Posted 11-07-2009, 12:00 AM by to The Pacific

• Passage to NZ - Day 5 Another day has gone by and very little wind helped propel us towards our destination. We had some westerlies but only 5kts or so; we motor sailed almost all day. Our fuel consumption has been very good running on average at 1600RPM for the last three days. Still no fish caught and I don't see much sign of sea life around here; no birds or flying fish... Later we should be going over some sea mountains reaching 900 meters below sea level maybe that will bring us luck. In the mean time we have 310 miles to go with a current ETA to Opua-New Zealand as Sunday morning. 167 Views , Posted 11-05-2009, 12:00 AM by to The Pacific

• Passage to NZ - Day 3 Another day has gone by. We are currently sitting inside the high we mentioned yesterday and we are becalmed. Have been running the engine on and off since midnight last night and we still have 560 miles to go. No fish yet decided to join us for a meal so we will start the pasta and rice diet soon. All is well though and Robin and I are having a great time out here with full moon and clear skies nights not often seen. 165 Views , Posted 11-03-2009, 12:00 AM by to The Pacific

• Passage to NZ - Day 4 Another calm day in paradise. We are still sitting under this high pressure system that's bringing us sunny days and no wind. Today we motored all day unlike yesterday when we had the chance of playing with the gennaker for a couple of hours and motorsail for most of the day. To make things more exciting today we had a strike from an unidentified fish. As we were reeling it in, suddenly we lost it and we were left looking at a loose fishing line. To make up for this loss we baked a chocolate cake that we topped with some whipped cream. It's few hours past the usual update but right now we are 430 miles from our destination. From tomorrow afternoon we should start picking up some westerly winds soon backing to some cold southerlies. 143 Views , Posted 11-03-2009, 12:00 AM by to The Pacific