We are finally back in a place where Tiama looks the part. While we loved the time in the more temperate climates, it is really the more northern waters that hold our fascination. We are totally frozen in with few feet of ice around the boat and the reflex’s heater humming away down below. Cosy as, enjoying the…
Syracuse, Sicily 4 September 2020. Making plans is one thing but then Covid 19 happens and it all changes to something none of us could have predicted. Tiama and her crew got caught by the 2020 Covid 19 outbreak while in Rabat, Morocco. A beautiful country with very nice people which we had little chance…
Tiama’s Adventures, Update 2019-12-27. Alvor Portugal Dear Friends This is a short update of our summer travels 2019, maybe they are not as exciting in the sense of going to remote colder nooks of the planet but they are adventurous in the that we, Bunny and I managed to go sailing together just the 2 of…
Currently Tiama is floating in a fresh water lake (The Nieuw Meer) in the middle of Amsterdam. We had to go at night under 16 bridges following the standing mast route trough the middle of the city. I just hope that those bridges still work on the first of June when we start out summer…
Amsterdam November 2018 Tiama’s Polar Adventures 2018 Amsterdam – Norway – Spitsbergen/Svalbard – Norway – Amsterdam 5100 miles over 6 months. Dear all This is an after the fact update on our 2018 summer in the Arctic. Tiama spent the winter of 2017-18 in a safe berth in the Amsterdam Marina, undergoing another winter refit,…
Tiama’s 12000 mile voyage, North West Passage
Tiama’s Great Adventure Update 4, The Central Arctic ice Barrier. We left Cambridge bay 14 August, after spending the last few days taking on water, fuel and groceries, thinking in the back of our minds that Tiama might have to spend a winter in the Ice. There was also a good hardware shop with good…
14 August Cambridge Bay, Tiama’s Great Adventure Update 3, Amongst The Ice Tiama departed Nome Alaska on 22 July, soon after the last crew member arrived it was time to get out of town. Met some fantastic local people but the crew were getting restless and would only get into more trouble had we stayed…
Tiama’s great Adventure Update 2 14 July Nome Alaska Dear All The story continues, We arrived Honolulu 14 June, one day before the traditional Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hokulea arrived back in Honolulu after a 3 year circumnavigation attracting 10,000 visitors and parked right in front of Tiama, a bit of a spectacle for us people…
14 June 2017 Honolulu We have done the first 4000 Miles of our 12000 mile voyage from Auckland to Amsterdam, the boat is doing wonderfully and her crew is hanging on in there enjoying the ride. After a busy 5 weeks before departure getting the last bits and pieces together We left Auckland right on…
Well finally the much talked about trip north to the Arctic region is about to happen, Tiama is patiently waiting in Auckland while her motley crew are getting prepared to leave NZ for a number of years for Arctic waters, new charts, pilot books, insurance and a lots and lots of other details to sort…
We have finished our work in the NZ Sub Antarctic for summer 2016, it was another good season, the Department of Conservation gave us a great send off from Bluff with some fine words of appreciation for the work we have been doing in the NZ sub Antarctic islands for the last 16 years, it…
We have a short southern summer charter season this year with some interesting jobs, including a 2 week sea-lion pub survey in Stewart island, and our regular role as logistical support vessel for several trips to the Auckland islands, the Snares and the Antipode islands supporting Albatross studies and sea-lion work. this will give us…
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Tiama is back at her berth at the NZ voyager Maritime Museum for the winter months, a good change to give her some tender loving care after working hard for the last 8 months in the NZ Sub Antarctic, we will get to the Need To Do job list, and hopefully get to tick of…
We are in the middle of our busy season, The boat has undergone yet another mayor refit this winteradding to the new engine installation we did last winter. She now has a 160 HP Yanmar engine driving a 3 bladed Variable pitch Hundasted propeller, most of the installation was done by Whiting Power in Auckland…
It has been the biggest year to date and top of the list was our 5 week trip to the Balleny Islands at 66 degrees 50 minutes south. They are on the NW corner of the Ross Sea, mainland Antarctica and 1,200 miles due south of New Zealand.
A total of 12 trips to the Sub Antarctic, including 2 trips to Macquarie island which is half way down between NZ and the Antarctic. Its a small long skinny island in the middle of the Southern Ocean with so many penguins on some of the beaches that you can not see the end of the colonies.
In all we did 9 trips south, We had the normal succession of weather systems that you expect for these latitudes, although we did encounter one rather large wave that took out the Port wheelhouse window, this was a bit of a dramatic moment, but no serious damage was done and after some temporary repairs Tiama carried on in a safe and sound manner.
The incredible progress that we have made on the Kiunga imbak campaign and the ground work that we are having on RH are a tribute to the org, to our supporters, and particularly the many wonderful people who have worked with us on the campaign over the last three months. The success that we are having belongs to us all.
The new millennium started well for us with a charter to the Antipodes. The Antipodes are some of New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic islands. The job involved us filming the first sunrise of the new millennium and it was a spectacular one. We then beamed the image out live onto the internet via a huge inmarsat-B mounted on the aft deck especially for the occasion (which looked rather silly).
On the 4 of June Henk departed from Puerto Monttt, Chile with Tiama heading for Australia (a 7500 mile voyage across the “big pond” pacific ocean) with brief stops in Easter Island, Pitcairn, the Cooks island and Fiji. Bunny and Ruby rejoined Tiama in the Cook Islands in July and we arrived here in Cairns, Australia on 7 August.
Our first season working in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Cape horn region has finished. We are now in Puerto Montt a small port in southern Chile, the gateway to the Chilean channels that lead south to Cape Horn.
We’re have returned from our first Antarctic expedition. We arrived back in Ushuaia the night of Feb. 4th after beating our way up the Beagle for the last five hours. It was an adventure for all on board Tiama.
On November 4 we depart Auckland, New Zealand with 8 on board to set sail across the Southern Ocean for Ushuaia, Argentina. The ages of our crew range from our 10 year old daughter to our 63 year old mate David, mostly New Zealanders with…
Tiama’s maiden voyage – we managed to achieve all our objectives. This included a first recorded landfall on Cheeseman island collecting geological specimens for the Auckland Museum, for the purpose of dating the islands.