Author: Pete Hill
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Atlantic Crossing
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Linda decided to fly to Europe instead of sailing across the Atlantic as it was her perfect opportunity to spend some time with family and friends. Linda wasn’t happy about me sailing single handed across the Atlantic in Kokachin on my own, but I was. The answer seemed to be to find out if my…
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Towards Newfoundland
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To my mind a good cruise should have an objective, a destination, but much of the pleasure is in the journey towards it. My step daughter lives in Newfoundland so that was a good reason to go there, quite apart from it being an interesting cruising ground. There is no cruise without a boat and…
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From Hard Work to Sailing
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Over optimistically, I thought we could finish Kokachin in about a year, it took us three years with the two of us working full time (weekends included). Very soon, as we started working on her, we realised that Le Forestiere’s Jonque de Plaisance are complicated boats! Also if she was to meet our needs and…
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The Work on Kokachin
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We had the following requirements when looking for a boat: We were aware that not all of the requirements could be met as it is obvious that the ideal boat does not exist. We were looking for a live aboard home that could take us where we wanted to go. We wanted a shallow draught boat because it gives us wider access to…
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Dinghy – Power Fin Sculling
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How did it all start? Raivavae (Austral Island – French Polynesia) Like in a dream, over the calm turquoise seas of the tropical lagoon, Pete effortlessly rowed us out of Raivavae harbour in Crake (7ft Bolger Nymph). It took us about ½ hour to get to one of the most beautiful tiny tropical motu I’ve…
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Blossom
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When I was going to become boatless (read ‘homeless’), Linda and I compiled a list of requirements that we were looking for in a future boat. The boat had to be suitable for short-handed ocean passages, large enough for two to live on board, but small enough for me to be able to handle on…
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Delivering My New Baby
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Oryx was up for sale and my New Zealand visa was about to expire so I needed to find a new home. An internet search for junk-rigged boats for sale brought up Raggedy Edge, a Pearson 367 lying in Florida. She appeared to be in good condition, was a suitable size, had lots of equipment,…
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French Polynesia
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In the middle of June we left Whangarei in New Zealand and after clearing out from Marsden Cove, we set sail in a fresh SW F6. Once clear of the channel we bore away past Bream Head for French Polynesia. I say ‘we’ as Linda Crew-Gee, a Croatian Londoner and fellow junk enthusiast, had joined…
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A New Rig for Francis H
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Rig Selection The most difficult part was designing the rig to fit the boat. There are some controversies around how much lead junk rig needs on a monohull. With a multihull it is easy as they don’t heel and therefore a Centre of Effort (CE) of the rig can be placed over the Centre of…
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Oryx Sails Further East
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South Africa, Mauritius, Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand I left Durban at the end of July, single-handed again and very much alone. I had rather lost my sense of direction and was not sure where to go. I couldn’t face continuing on to Madagascar and it seemed wrong to retreat back to the Atlantic. In…
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