By: Pete, Roger and Linda Skipper: Pete We left Neiafu (Tonga) on the 7th November with an ESE wind force 4 to 5, perfect weather with the sun shining. The first days run of 157 miles. This good weather continued to Minerva Reef where we anchored for one day.  We left Minerva reef on the…

When I joined Oryx, I did not realise that she would be such a head turner.  Everywhere we go, we have numerous visitors who want to know about the boat and its unusual aero junk rig. Even Polynesian TV accosted us, wanting to know more and filming us as we were anchoring on our arrival…

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…

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…

Pete and Carly sailed away on Oryx from the UK in 2012. Carly diligently captured their voyaging in her blog (see the links) until her tragic disappearance at sea in 2015. Words are not enough to express Pete’s profound pain for the loss of his much loved and infinitely missed wife. By saying: “I wished…