April 2010 – From New Zealand

Dear friends
There is nothing quite as wonderful as the feel of an able sailing vessel when she has a perfect wind on a wide-open sea. We’d planned to spend a relaxed and enjoyable week celebrating a friends 70th birthday at Great Barrier Island then sail back to our home base at Kawau Island thirty miles to the west-south-west. But the weather forecast for the next week was for fresh southwesterly winds and lots of sunshine.