Wishing you all a very happy new year for 2026!
2025 has been an interesting year for us. We limped in to New Zealand, late 2024, and put Azimuth in a marina for the first time since we left the UK in 2022. There was a ton of stuff to fix and replace, and we nearly became Land Lubbers again! We bought a car, we travelled all over New Zealand on numerous road trips, seeing many parts of this fabulous country. In April, we had Azimuth lifted out of the water for more TLC, including the horrible 3 day job of scraping her bottom clean. Then we headed home back to the UK for the British summer, catching up with the family and friends again after being away for so long. We returned to New Zealand in August, got Azimuth painted and launched again, and have been sailing ever since, seeing this beautiful country by sea.
So what does 2026 look like for us?
In January, we are very excited to be welcoming our eldest son Ethan and his partner Becky onboard. In February we shall be doing a little side trip to Melbourne in Australia to reset our NZ visa’s. We shall then be in New Zealand until May, and when the weather is right, we will be sailing North back to the South Pacific Islands. First on the list is Fiji for several months, and then we shall most likely sail back towards the equator, visiting Tuvalu, Kiribati and wintering in the Marshall Islands / Micronesia.
If anyone wants to join us anywhere on this South Pacific adventure, you are most welcome! Back to warm Coral Seas, Atolls, and fabulous trade wind sailing.
All the best for now.
Dom & Ailsa on Azimuth.