Author: Pete Hill
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A Short Passage to Uruguay
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Awarded the Founder’s Cup by RCC Our 180 days in Brazil were up so we cleared out of Angra dos Reis for Uruguay, 1000 miles to the south-west. Before leaving Brazil we sailed over to Enseada de Sito Forte, on Ilha Grande, where a beach bar kindly runs a hose of spring water out to…
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Oryx
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Oryx is a modified KD860, designed by Bernd Kohler. The main alterations I made to the design were to lengthen her from 8.6 metres to 10.0 metres and, of course, to change the rig to a junk. There were many other modifications, so that the completed boat is very different from the standard design. Oryx’s dimensions…
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Rios Paraná and Paraguay
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For someone who dislikes motoring it may seem a little perverse to attempt to go a long way up the rivers Paraná and Paraguay, but the prospect of being able to travel 1,000 miles into the centre of a continent without taking the masts down was irresistible. My only source of information was the Admiralty…
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The Jester Challenge
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By Pete Hill – 2006 Pete received the Inaugural Jester Medal, which is awarded by the Ocean Cruising Club, at theirdiscretion, for an outstanding contribution to the art of singlehanded sailing. Whilst browsing through a Classic Boat magazine in a supermarket in Bermuda, I came across an article about the Jester Challenge to be held…
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The Jester Challenge
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Written by Ewen Southby-Tailyour Ten entries in the inaugural Jester Challenge for single-handed yachts under 30 feet departed Plymouth at 1200 BST on 3 June 2006 and headed towards Newport, RI. The first to arrive, a Frenchman, did so after 31 days 15 hours 35 minutes and the second (and last), Pete Hill, crossed the…
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China Moon
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China Moon was designed and built as a seaworthy ocean cruising home for short handed sailing. The unusual double junk rig provides for safe and easy handling. Sails can be hoisted and reefed from inside the cuddy without getting wet. Hinged carbon fibre battens give the sail a good shape. As well as her superb…
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Klingons on the Starboard Bow
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The Founder’s Cup by RCC was awarded for this cruise. After the previous year’s disaster at Staten Island, China Moon retreated to Brazil where I built stronger rudders and a cuddy at the forward end of the cockpit to give much needed shelter. In November I sailed singlehanded back down to Argentina and spent Christmas…
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Make Do and Mend
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This is the cruise for which the Juno’s Cup was awarded by RCC. We beat into Bahia Aguirre against 40 to 50 knot winds and when we left it was almost calm. We had to motor for nearly an hour before the breeze filled in from the southwest. These conditions are about par for the…
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China Moon – Maiden Voyage
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I can’t honestly say that China Moon was in all respects ready for sea but, after three years building her in South Africa, it was time to leave, a view the lenient immigration authorities wholeheartedly agreed with. The idea for China Moon first germinated after reading about Dragon Wings, a 34ft catamaran with a junk…
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China Moon – Sea Trials
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She is very easily driven and slipped along nicely with the articulating battens giving the sail a nice shape. The log was not calibrated but the estimated speed was about 3 knots to windward in a Force 3 and tacking through 100°. There was noticeable leeway, but not excessive. As soon as the wind picked…
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