Sundreamer

Sundreamer shooting rainbows up the Whangerie River. no photo shop!

had a pretty rough last 24hrs, pumped a lot of water out of the transoms where water was coming in from where the rudder lift lines where, and while doing it crawled down the back of the boat the bilge pump decided to catch on fire and smoke me out. lucky all good but I have never seen flames from a bilge pump in 1 inch of water before, it didnt even trip the 7amp fuse! fwd hatch leaks too, will replace in opua, only 2 hatches on the entire boat and of course they leak! still managed ok with a 283nm 24hrs., not the 300 solo i wanted to crack but i guess with only one rudder and being forced to reef down I have excuses for being so slow. lighter winds ahead and hopefully make it south of the cape before the sw change arrives.

hit something going 13knots. lucky I have 2 rudders. managed to wrestle the rudder back onboard but lost the shaft. redesigned pilot control and steering back on course let's hope no more crap out here.

Just left denerau fiji solo sailing to Opua nz, Routing now showing 7 days lets hope faster .,

Leaving Atuona, destination downwind Yeehaa!

April 8th 2004 we broke the Auckland to Tauranga multihull race record, hitting 30.6 knots in the process which still stands today 20 years later. Crew that day was Phil and Matthew Hart, Bill Barry, Robert Shaw the late Bruce Williamson and Bills brother-in-law David.