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  • Big Blue at Last !

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    Linda

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    I hope that your Summer / Winter has been good and you are looking forward to a new season. You might have been wondering where we were during this time of absence and how it is going with Kokachin. Here is our well overdue update. It was not easy to summarise 6 months of a…

  • Delivering My New Baby

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    Pete Hill

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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,…

  • Roger’s First Ocean Passage

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    Linda

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    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…

  • Oryx’s Wild Horses

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    Linda

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    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…

  • French Polynesia

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    Pete Hill

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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…

  • Oryx Sails Further East

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    Pete Hill

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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…

  • A Short Passage to Uruguay

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    Pete Hill

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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…

  • “Oryx Odyssey” – by Carly

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    Linda

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    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…

  • Rios Paraná and Paraguay

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    Pete Hill

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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…

  • The Jester Challenge

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    Pete Hill

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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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