One Family’s Boating Journey
One Family’s Boating Journey; That sinking feeling
What a shocking end to our summer! We never saw this plot twister coming!
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.
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 ...
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.
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, ...
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...
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!
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY: Happy anniversary!
Happy one-year anniversary to this column! This is our 12th edition in Boating New Zealand, writing of our family’s adventures on sailing vessel Sauva...
One Family’s Boating Journey: First principles
This column marks the second sail of our 2022 spring-summer season, which we undertook in September. It was not without its challenges!
One Family’s Boating Journey – First sail of spring
I am retrospectively writing this article as we depart Gulf Harbour Marina for our second sail of the season. Fair sailing conditions are expected, bu...
One Family’s Boating Journey: Learning the ropes with Penny
Well surprisingly – or not – our first sail of the year, meaning the spring/summer season, is yet to happen. I have managed to get myself involved wit...
One Family’s Boating Journey: New fridge, new anchor
After our first overnight trip away on S.V. Sauvage in 2020, we knew we had to replace the original fridge and freezer.
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY – How much power?
On land it is easy to forget about power and often we (particularly our teenagers) aren’t concerned about leaving lights on in unoccupied rooms, or le...
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY – Jobs Weekends
It’s the first weekend in June, and I’m sitting on SV Sauvage writing this article at Gulf Harbour Marina. We had planned a return sail from the marin...
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY – Kitset water solution
I’m writing this article during the 2022 April school holidays while anchored at Great Barrier Island, our newly favourite sailing homeaway-from-home....
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY – Peninsula discoveries
In last month’s article, Chris shared his trials with the head on board SV Sauvage. The story now continues with the family’s Christmas cruise to the ...
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY – Faulty heads and Wi-Fi solutions
Sailing the great expanse of water that surrounds New Zealand offers a sense of liberation and independence that is hard to dismiss. There’s a pull in...
ONE FAMILY’S BOATING JOURNEY – Ignorance is bliss
Ignorance can be a blessing or a curse – or both if you’re learning to sail.
ONE FAMILY’S BIG JOURNEY – The right yacht
Where do you start a column about your first year owning and experiencing a sailing yacht? Do you start with your failed attempts to start your yacht’...
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