Sailing
For gallery of images click here. The fine yacht “Windrose” a 65 ft Andre Hoek design, built of alloy in Holland, beckoned for a charter to sail down the coast of Portugal from Lisbon to Faro on the famous Algarve Coast. This for me was … Continue readingRaining in Lisbon
For images go to gallery here. It is the end of September, 2013. I am aboard a 65ft ketch, cruising the Balearic Islands off the southeast coast of Spain, in the Mediterrranean Sea. Our itinery includes a circumnavigation of the island of Ibiza, and a … Continue reading“Vida del Vagabondo”, a Gourmet Circumnavigation of Ibiza on “Miaplacidus”.
Gallery Ever flown in a B 52? Well, me hearties, ship aboard the “B 52” for the ride of a lifetime. The “B 52” is a 52 foot high performance sailing catamaran, now about 6 years old, the creation of my host for the Anzac weekend, … Continue reading“B 52”
For an extraordinarily special cruise over the 2013 New Year holiday, I joined Captain Anthony (aka “Ant”) and his lovely partner Greer from Make It Count Sailing aboard their superb Beneteau 57 named “The Count” for a quintessential Australian cruising experience, namely to explore the … Continue readingNew Year’s Cruise to the Hawkesbury
Auckland Harbour, with Harbour Bridge in background. With the new Sole diesel she would get along at just on 6 kt at about 2000 rpm. Please see our gallery: “Beyond II”, RNZYS. Note: Only a few of the images appear within the text – click for … Continue reading“Beyond II”, RNZYS.
Please see our gallery: Going to the Prom, the Cruise of the Schooner Yacht “Blizzard”. Note: Only a few of the images appear within the text – click here for the full gallery at large high resolution in new tab window. My current experiences leave me … Continue readingGoing to the Prom, the Cruise of the Schooner Yacht “Blizzard”.
Link to Photo Gallery Note: Only a few of the images appear within the text – click here for the full gallery at large high resolution in new tab window. Sailing is a passion for Dad and I. Unfortunately, for most of our lives we have … Continue readingSailing – My History.
Link to Photo Gallery Note: Only a few of the images appear within the text – click here for the full gallery at large high resolution in new tab window. My Dad, Henry Thomas Welch, was raised in the little country town of Te Awamutu … Continue readingAboard the “Golden Hind” 1940
Link to Photo Gallery Note: Only a few of the images appear within the text – click here for the full gallery at large high resolution in new tab window. Mum had carefully stored Dad’s prized logs, and it was in sorting out their things … Continue readingSchooner Yatch “Wakaya”. A cruise to the Cook Islands, 1948.