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No pictures today, I'm afraid! Just a quick update from Alex. Rusalka's course on Day 1 was NNE across Tasman Bay and Cook Strait, with wind more or less on the beam. A pod of dolphins escorted the boat out of Nelson - always a good omen!
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I (Jackie) took the easy way home, by plane, on Easter Sunday. Alex, David and Anne continued to prepare the boat and wait for the right weather to leave.
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Summer’s gone and it’s time to head back to Tassie. Alex has been checking the Predictwind forecasts daily and it’s starting to look like there will be windows available to get to Australia – at least somewhere in NSW, if not directly to Hobart, in the next week or so.
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Since we had decided not to take Rusalka further afield than Marlborough Sounds, we hired a car to do a short road trip to explore the South Island further.
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We spent the better part of a week in Nelson, doing chores and chasing up leads for crew for the return journey, so we decided that we deserved a couple of days of play in Abel Tasman National Park.
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We woke up in Muzz’s Cove on Monday morning to heavy rain and low visibility, but decided to move on to another bay in Pelorus Sound.
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As always, the weather guides our plans. With a forecast of two calm days before a Northwesterly gale we decided to leave beautiful Queen Charlotte Sound and head back around Cape Jackson to visit Pelorus Sound.
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We booked the ferry to Wellington for Sunday for a short getaway, expecting to return on Wednesday. Cyclone Gita was coming, but it was uncertain when, where or how hard it would hit NZ.
- More of Queen Charlotte Sound
- Cruising Queen Charlotte Sound
- Nelson to Marlborough Sounds
- When bad weather hits...
- Passage to NZ - The Videos
- Abel Tasman National Park
- Passage to NZ - The Numbers
- Finally in here, in Nelson
- But wait, there's more...
- They've arrived!
- Passage to NZ: Day 9 - All in one day...
- I can see Rusalka!
- Passage to NZ: Day 9 - update
- Passage to NZ: Day 8 - Position report
- Passage to NZ: Day 8
- Passage to NZ: Day 7
- Passage to NZ: Day 6
- Passage to NZ: Day 5 - addendum
- Passage to NZ: Day 4
- Passage to NZ: Days 2-3
- And they're off!!
- Passage to NZ: Day 1 - addendum
- Waiting for weather...