Ocean Passages
Most of our overseas voyages take place during the New Zealand winter seasons (June through September) as during summer we are busy with day sailing experiences. Ocean passages will generally only take place every few years, usually timed to coincide with the ASTA West Coast Challenge.
The next event takes place in 2008, however we will not return until 2011 as we will be undertaking a rolling refit over the next three years.
Previous voyages that the ship has made are given below:
1986-1988 |
Took part in the Australian bi-centennial First Fleet re-enactment, sailing from Portsmouth England to Sydney Australia. During this voyage we carried 150 trainees across some of the world's notorious oceans. |
1989 |
First cruise of the Pacific Islands – Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Norfolk islands. 60 trainees carried. |
1990 |
Sailed the East cost of New Zealand with Soren Larsen, Spirit of Adventure, KZ7, KZ1 and Trade Wind as part of the 1990 celebrations. Carried 150 trainees. |
1991-1993 |
Pacific voyage to Tonga via the Kermadec Islands, Minerva Reef and Niue with short Tonga Island cruise |
1992 |
Pacific voyage to Tonga, Samoa, Wallis, Fortuna, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia returning to New Zealand via Norfolk Island. |
1993 |
Pacific voyage to Tonga, Tonga to Fiji via Wallis & Fortuna, Vanauatu, New Caledonia returning to New Zealand via Norfolk Island. |
1995 |
Voyage to Murora Atoll as part of the New Zealand peace flotilla to protest French nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific. |
2002 |
Voyage to Korea for Sail Korea 2002, a tall ships Festival held to celebrate the Football World Cup in Korea and Japan. Then onwards for the West Coast Challenge on the United States. Click here to read the log... |
2005 |
Voyage to the ASTA West Coast Tall Ships Challenge, via Tahiti, Hawaii to British Columbia, then down the west coast of the US, finishing at San Diego. Click here to read the log.... |
2006 |
New Zealand to Rarotonga and Aitutake to take part in Survivor Cook Islands, then a friends and family holiday from Rarotonga to Va'vau, Tonga before a cruise through the Islands, returning back to Opua from Nuku'alofa. |
Voyage Blog from our 2006 trip to Rarotonga and Tonga
2005: Voyage logs and festival information
2002: Bill Millar's log
