Sailing Yacht SEA BUNNY

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SEA BUNNY, our yacht since 1998, left from Chichester in the UK in March 2001 on the first stage of her potential circumnavigation.

Since then she visited the Channel Islands, France, Spain and Portugal before leaving Gibraltar at the end of October 2001 with the Blue Water Rally, taking the tradewinds route through the Caribbean, the Panama Canal and the Pacific Islands to Fiji, where we left the rally in July 2002 and went on to New Zealand.

In 2003 we visited Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia, returning to New Zealand and in 2005 we returned to the South Pacific, visiting all four archipelagos of Tonga then Samoa, Wallis, Fiji and Vanuatu before reaching Australia in November 2005.

For the summer of 2005-6 we cruised down to Sydney, arriving just before Christmas. The weather was too boisterous to continue to Tasmania and the boat developed problems so we spent the summer in Sydney, returning to Scarborough Marina near Brisbane in May. We spent most of the winter there returning in November from a six-week trip to the UK, our first in two years.

After 3 weeks we were off to Thailand for a reunion of some of the 2001-3 Blue Water Rally, following which we spent 3 weeks in Cambodia, including 10 days at Siem Reap, for the Angkor Wat ruins.

After another short stay back on the boat in January -not too hot and humid - we flew to Melbourne for a 10-week, 11000 km land tour taking in Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Hobart and more importantly a lot of country between.

At the end of March 2007 we started to head north from Scarborough, initially to Mooloolaba to lift out. After various issues (see news ) we don't leave there until the end of June.

Photo: Sea Bunny under sail in the Ha'apai archipelago, Tonga