Maajhi-Re is a Norseman 447, designed by Robert Perry and built by the Ta Shing Shipyards in Taiwan in 1985.Designed as a passage maker, she has done some extensive cruising, including a 3 year trip from San Francisco to New Zealand between 2001 and 2004.
We bought her in May 2005 and sailed her back across the Tasman from Whangarei in New Zealand to our home port of Melbourne, Australia, for servicing and maintenance in preparation for extended cruising.
What an experience! Stand-out memories are frantic provisioning of food, cooking utensils and other galley necessaries during a far too short week in Whangarei - a very quick onceover and some standard system preparations before departure, and then off into the Tasman with everything crossed and enormous faith in the ability of ourselves and (very experienced) crew to get us safely to Melbourne via Eden.
The Tasman threw some of it's worst at us over a 48 day period in the midst of the 12 day journey to Eden and Maajhi-Re handled it beautifully - much better than the frazzled new owners!
And so to our arrival in Melbourne at Royal Brighton Yacht Club in May 2005 and the start of a lengthy preparation time before departing for the long-term cruising life.
Our scheduled departure is the end of March 2006.
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