Since our arrival at Sauvage’s new home, a buoy lying 500m off Hobsonville Point towards Auckland City, the city and environs has suffered from the winter blues. Wind, rain, thunderstorms have plagued the outlook and kept us from heading out for our next sailing adventure.
Luckily our buoy is reasonably sheltered from high winds and getting out to Sauvage is mostly doable.
We’re still getting the hang of changing from being parked at a marina with its significant advantage of simply being able to walk up to our yacht, gear in hand, and hopping on. Now to get to , we must take a 500m-plus ride on our tender from the nearest jetty. At low tide the jetty is slippery – whenever we’ve moved without thewe’ve experienced near-knees-on-concrete moments. (I think gumboots might be our next boating investment.)
