Sunstone: At Home Cruising
& Racing
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These pages are mostly about our
sailing lives aboard our boat, 'Sunstone' since we left England on our world cruise
in 1997. 'Sunstone', was our home from 1981 until 2015 and she has carried us
200,000 miles. We have also raced her a lot, so you'll find we have a few
things to say about life afloat and the competitive side of sailing as well
as about our travels. We sold Sunstone in 2021. Though we are still sailing in a new boat, our cruising is limited to New Zealand waters. As a result we are no longer updating this website, but will continue to maintain it for the present in the hope that some of the information and experience we have gathered may be useful or of interest to other sailors. Tom & Vicky Jackson If you would like to contact us, email sunstonesailing@gmail.com |
Page 1 - Background on 'Sunstone' and Tom and Vicky
Page 2 - Atlantic to
Pacific: September 97 - Septemmber 99 Spain, Canaries, Atlantic Crossing, Caribbean,
Antigua Classics, Bermuda Race, New England,
Nova Scotia, Chesapeake Bay, ICW, Florida,
Bahamas, Panama, Galapagos, Marquesas,
Tuamotus, Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine, Tahaa, Bora Bora,
Rarotonga, Niue, Beveridge Reef, Tonga, Fiji
Page 3 - New Zealand:
October 99 - September 2000Auckland, Bay of Islands, Fiordland, Stewart
Island,
Marlborough
Sounds, Nelson
Page 4 - Australia+:
September 2000 - March 2002
Sydney-Hobart
Race, Tasmania, D' Entrecasteaux
Channel, Port Davey, Gordon River, New Caledonia,
Vanuatu,
Hamilton Is. Racing, Whitsundays,
Tauranga
(NZ)
Page 5 - Pacific Coast
of North America - March 2002 - October 2003 Passages to Tahiti Hawaii Kodiak,
Kenai
Peninsula, Prince William Sound, Glacier Bay,
SE Alaska, Inside Passage of
British Columbia,
San
Juan Is., Puget Sound, Gulf Is.,
Southern
Straits and Neha Bay Races,
Vancouver
Is., Queen Charlotte Is.,
San Francisco Bay, San Diego
Page 6 - Mexico and
Costa Rica - October - May 2004Sea of Cortez, Mexico W. Coast, Costa Rica
Page 7 - Travels in Ecuador and the Galapagos - 2004Salinas, Galapagos
Page 8 - Chile -
2004-05 Passages to Easter
Island and Valdivia, Chiloe,
Chilean
Canales, Straits of Magellan, Beagle Channel,
Cape
Horn
Page 9 -South
Atlantic - 2005-06
Falklands, Mar del
Plata, Rio de Janeiro,
Ilha Bela,
Semana de Vela Regatta,
Piriapolis, Mar del
Plata,
Page 10 - South Africa -
2006 Cape Town, Simon's Town, Various
Racing,
Inland Travel, Passage To Fremantle
Page 11 - Australia: Dec
2006 - June 2007
Fremantle, Albany,
Esperance, Recherche Arch.
Across the Bight, Port
Lincoln, Port Adelaide,
King
Is. Port Davey
(Circumnavigation completed!),
Page 12 New Zealand Sep
2007 April 2009 NZ Cruising, Various Racing, 2nd NZ
Circumnavigation,
Round North Island Two-Handed
Race
Page 13 Vanuatu & New
Caledonia -- May Aug 2009 Vanuatu:
Aneityum to the Banks Group,
New Caledonia: Northern
Lagoon, D'Entrecasteaux
Reefs,
Huon Is., Lifu
Page 14 New Zealand Sep
2009 June 2010
Page 15 Pacific Circuit June
2010 Nov 2011� Fiji,
Wallis, Funafuti,
Kosrae,
Pohnpei, Guam, Japan, Aleutians, Alaska
Peninsula,
Kodiak Is., Vancouver
Is., Hawaii,
Page 16 Round New Zealand
Two-Handed Race Feb 2012 Mar 2012
Page 20 Boat-less in New
Zealand
Page 21 Back to British Columbia
Page 22 Back in New Zealand and
Blue Water Medal
Page 23 Travels in New Zealand
and Elsewhere New Update May 2018
Page 24 Travels in
the Deep South: 2017 New Update June 2018
Page 25 The Auckland
Islands in Vingilot: 2019
Page 28 - Tips, Quips and
Controversy
Page 29 Cruising Notes for
Various Countries and Areas -
For cruising
news and detailed information on many cruising areas go to the website of the Ocean Cruising Club
We have been irregular contributors to sailing
magazines, including Cruising World, Classic Boat, Practical Boat Owner, Sail,
Yachting Monthly and Yachting World. Page 17 gives a list of some of our
articles over the past few years. A few may be available on the Internet from
publishers' websites.
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