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s/v Ardea: The Crew
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. A little about each of the folks that Ardea has been gracious enough to accommodate. Time passed and I actively raced during both High School and College with two summer 29er campaigns on the side. Sailing post college has transformed from serious competition to relaxing cruises with friends while the sun falls behind the Olympic Peninsula. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Keepin it Easy on Waiheke Island.
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s/v Ardea: The Plan
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. For those of you who wonder what this is all about:. This map is a rough outline of our planned route West. From Tonga we go southwest to New Zealand (not shown), where we have to wait out the South Pacific cyclone season for about four months. February 2012 [read: ASAP]:. Depart Berkeley to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Feb - mid April:. Sea of Cortez and mainland Mexico. Depart for New Zealand. Hey, check out tho...
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s/v Ardea: Play Time
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Saturday, February 2, 2013. New support beam. Needs varnish, but it's in. Main mast step before. Main step after. Original half-dollar back in. A kiwi. Two-dollar coin went under the mizzen, chosen. For it's heron on the tails side. Cockpit ready for paint. I failed to photograph it. With the step in as things were getting a little hectic. New mizzen support design. I think I'm. Worth all the while. Follow Ar...
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s/v Ardea: November 2012
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Ardea in New Zealand. Landfall never loses is flourish. Double rainbow on passage. Becalmed. Just me and this huge fender. Pummice. Tons of pummice. Eggs on life-sling line. Saturday, November 24, 2012. Just a quick note- I'll update with a bit more soon. Thursday, November 22, 2012. I'm Thankful for Wind! Id pay good money for that. Gusting to forty? I say this, but theres a breez...
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s/v Ardea: September 2012
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Sunday, September 30, 2012. I've delayed beginning this post for weeks for fear of ending up with an unfair and resoundingly negative review of Rarotonga in these Cook Islands. I wondered if my reasons were all wrong as I contemplated such titles as The Crook Islands. And the remarkably embittered Cook Islands: A Place And An Excuse. Glad to have some mates about. Partying at Trader Jacks (again). It wasn't l...
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s/v Ardea: October 2012
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Sunday, October 28, 2012. Huh Those clouds look funny. 8220;Ah man, are we getting another front? We could hear Saltbreaker's anchor chain drag across a coral head as she came around and set bow to the southeast. 8220;Errr,” as the grinding went on, “we're destroying that bommie.” Nick noted the unfortunate but unavoidable. I was exhausted but the wind was clocking to the west. I set an anchor drag alarm ...
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s/v Ardea: January 2013
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Monday, January 28, 2013. Note the sagging. Also the separation to port. It worried me a great deal for many miles. I was careful with my sail area and tried to keep the pressure off as much as I could. I knew the problem needed to be addressed, but I wasn't quite sure how bad it would be and how I would go about repairing it until I started ripping out the cockpit decking underneath the mizzen. Then I ran a ...
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s/v Ardea: The Vessel
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Ardea is a Mariner 31 ketch built in 1971 by Far East Yachts in Japan. She hails from Berkeley, California. Ardea in Aquatic Park, San Francisco (August 2011). Hull: Fiberglass; Full keel with cutaway forefoot. Displacement: 11,500 pounds unloaded (5,000 pound ballast). Length Overall (LOA): 30' 10". Length of Waterline (LWL): 25' 8". Hull Speed: 6.8 kts. More on the Mariner 31 @ the Mariner Yachts page:.
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s/v Ardea: Settling In.
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Monday, December 3, 2012. A front clearing over Bay of Islands. At anchor of Urupukapuka. Labels: Bay of Islands. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mexico- Sea of Cortez. Musings of Fellow Wanderers. Explore and Restore Blog. Murre and the Pacific. Open Sea Photography and Film Productions. Twist the Tide Pools: Salty Blog. Follow Ardea: enter your email to subscribe to my blog.
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s/v Ardea: August 2012
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Meandering about the Pacific in a 31 foot ketch. Link to ShipTrak website with position updates. Wednesday, August 29, 2012. And I wasn't the only sailor to sit happily in the lagoon with his foot in his mouth. Monday, August 27, 2012. Coral Garden Photos (Taha'a). Here is a string of underwater photos. I'll try to get around to identifying everything and come back and write the names in, but I figured I'd dump them on here since I have the photo compression software. Giant clams ( Tridacna maxima).
