Sunstone: At Home Cruising & Racing

  

 

 

 

These pages are mostly about our sailing lives aboard our boat, 'Sunstone' since we left England on our world cruise in 1997. 'Sunstone', has been our home since 1981 and she has carried us over 170,000 miles since then. We have also raced her a lot - still do occasionally - 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.

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 2000              Auckland, Bay of Islands, Fiordland, Stewart Island,

                                                                                                               Marlborough Sounds, Nelson

 

• Page 4 - Australia+: September 2000 - March 2002                  Lord Howe Is., East Coast, Sydney,

                                                                                                               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 2004            Sea of Cortez, Mexico W. Coast, Costa Rica

 

• Page 7 - Travels in Ecuador and the Galapagos - 2004           Salinas, 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,

                                                                                                               Passage to Cape Town

 

• 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!),

                                                                                                               Hobart, Passage to NZ

 

• 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,

   Western Samoa

 

• Page 16 – Round New Zealand Two-Handed Race – Feb 2012 – Mar 2012

 

• Page 17 – 2012 Overview  -  New Page January 2013

 

• Page 18 - Cruising & Racing Plans

 

• Page 19 - Published Articles

 

• Page 20 - Tips, Quips and Controversy

 

• Page 21 – 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.