Fogg 427 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 He’s a few mins off Matiatia - I wonder if he’ll do a victory lap of Waiheke... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fogg 427 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Arrived about an hour ago (no lap of honour)! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 268 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 The Circle is complete Wed Oct 07 2020 At 1610 I crossed my outbound track, surging into Matiatia on a brisk Southwest wind. I rounded up in the lee of the headland, furling the genoa and dropped the main for the last time. After over a month at sea I felt like an albatross folding it wings as it returns to the land from its soaring across the boundless oceans. I have sailed two and a half thousand miles around New Zealand, through triumphs and disasters, challenges great and small, through happiness and despair. Through every emotion really. The hardest part has been dealing with myself, with the little mind that wants to give up or complain or be lazy or just feel sorry for itself. Out there alone I have passed through my own cold stormy nights but always I seem to manage to come through those into the glowing sunrise of a new day and I feel the better for the experience, cleansed in some way by the wind and the salt spray. On the dock, as I glide in on the wind, finally engineless simply because I have run out of fuel, are my dear friends and family. They come to help and share in what is for me a very moving moment. Their kindness and care touches me deeply. All these posts have been painstakingly tapped out, letter by letter with one finger, on the tiny keyboard on my phone, sometimes in very trying situations. It has been, in some way, a conversation I have been having with you. I had no one else to talk to. So thank you if you read them, and thank you if you helped out by supporting the restoration of the Kate. She’s a fine old ship. I am home now. The circle is complete. 1 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chariot 244 Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 I would love to think the mainstream media could recognise your achievement and at least make the reast of NZ aware of what you have just completed. Congratulations on a great achievement. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AJ Oliver 155 Posted October 8, 2020 Share Posted October 8, 2020 His greatest achievement has been to type all of the notices out, on a little bitty screen . . with one finger. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 268 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 "Kate", the boat that Mike Delamore was raising money for is now sailing again, and there is an article in BoatingNZ. https://boatingnz.co.nz/waiheke-working-sail-trust/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dtwo 157 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 Awesome Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 268 Posted January 28, 2021 Share Posted January 28, 2021 And now an article about the circumnavigation in BoatingNZ, with more info about the skipper... "You may recognise Mike’s name as the regular mate aboard Henk Haazen’s remarkable ice-capable steel yacht Tiama. Together they’ve taken many scientific expeditions – DOC ecologists, NIWA and MFAT researchers – to New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic Islands, to the Balleny Islands, the Ross Sea, and Antarctica itself." https://boatingnz.co.nz/solo-circumnavigation/ 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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