Our first night out from Bora Bora was thoroughly miserable – an uncomfortable reach under double-reefed main and staysail across very sloppy seas in 18-25 knots of gusty wind. It was too much for our…

After 3 weeks my coral cut has finally healed and with great relief Melanie has put away the surgical knife. She was sharpening it in anticipation of the through-ankle amputation.She is very relieved. So far…

…and yet there is always tomorrow. Today we have been romping along at 8.5 knots with a steady, fresh ESE breeze of 20-25 knots, with two headsails and Mr Aries steering superbly. Grey, grey skies,…

Who was Beveridge? I knew one curmudgeonly paediatrician by that name but this South Pacific jewel, our destination, is not named after him. We must research this. The charts show Beveridge Reef as a useless…

A fast windy downwind sail saw us doubling the southern point of Niue soon after dawn. A long flat silhouette, with jagged cliffs and spectacular blowholes. The world’s 235th largest nation with a population of…