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Sailing Sea Change S2 Ep11 - New Zealand Part 2

In this eleventh and final episode of my second season I sail from Whangamumu Bay down to Marsden Cove in Whangarei Bay, and then up to and back from the town of Whangarei. These video clips were taken with an iPhone SE, hence the annoying wind noise in many of them, sorry. I present them here in the simplest fashion possible, with some narration but no music, using a few photos to complete the narrative. I maintained a daily blog, supplemented with photos when I had internet connection, on my Predictwind tracker for family and friends, but videos cannot be added to that, so these YouTube videos are my additional attempt to share this amazing adventure with them, and anyone else who cares to watch and follow. Sea Change is a somewhat unusual example of the Pacific Seacraft Crealock 34 cutter, a solidly-built fiberglass double-ender with a canoe stern, which Bill Crealock designed and Pacific Seacraft built to be a sturdy blue-water cruiser, the little brother of the original Pacific Seacraft Crealock 37. It is hull number 124 and is tiller steered. It had the single-handed package with most lines led aft from the mast to the cockpit under the soft dodger, and I added additional lines and clutches to allow full two-line triple reefing of the main from the cockpit. To the existing bimini with solar panels, the Pacific Windpilot on the stern, the Raymarine tiller autopilot, and the windlass at the bow, I added an additional large solar panel, doubled the battery bank, replaced the VHF transceiver with AIS reception, and purchased used dinghies and new outboards. I used iSailor for navigation on iPhone and iPad, and an Iridium Go! for satellite communications with the Predictwind package for weather forecasts, tracker, and a daily blog. Although Sea Change has a large newer 130% genoa, I long since I swapped it out for a 100% yankee-cut jib on the furler as the genoa was often overpowered. This jib, the staysail, and the mainsail, like the standing rigging, are original to the boat, now 34 years old. Although she has an asymmetrical spinnaker I have yet to use it when sailing solo, and I have not had a reason to hoist the storm jib. Unlike last season, this season I experienced true sea sickness twice, each time the first night out of Fiji sailing south into rough seas. During the day I spent most of my time sitting in the cockpit on the leeward side facing backwards, a location that is the pivot point of the boat, making it very comfortable. I usually fished when underway, trolling 1-4 lines, and caught a few small tunas and mahimahis. I greatly enjoyed watching the variety of pelagic birds and identifying them, plus occasional marine mammals, mostly near islands. I did not keep watch, sleeping as long as I liked at night, albeit often up to adjust sails, or napping extensively during the day, unless close to land. I relied on my AIS alarms to warn of any boats or ships within 6 miles of us. My trip last season across the Pacific was everything I had dreamed of since my teenage years growing up in East London in South Africa where I sailed dinghies and Hobie cats, followed by 42 years of windsurfing and now kitesurfing, along with sailing an O’Day 23 and a Tanzer 22 on Clinton Lake in east central Illinois, until I retired at the end of 2018. And this second season simply continued in that vein. I want to acknowledge the help of several people in continuing this adventure this season, in addition to all those thanked in my last season videos who got me going on this adventure. I received valuable assistance from a fellow retired entomologist and avid kitesurfer, Vince Salgado, who helped me fix an engine starting problem, and from Ed on Aka and Glenn on Northern Rose who helped me solve a variety of problems with the outboard motor and the diesel engine. The biggest thanks to my wonderful wife, Christina Nordholm, for supporting me in this adventure, although not keen on ocean crossing herself, she assured me she would help me through the Panama canal and then visit when I got somewhere interesting. She is a sailor who prefers to race her Thistle named Reddy. Finally, I thank all the many cruisers I met last season, some again this season, and all the new folk I met this season, for advice, assistance, meals, story-sharing, taking me along on adventures, kitesurfing with me, and just generally being the wonderful people most cruisers are.