2008 Pacific Voyage January and a new moon are used as depictions of new beginnings. So it was that with a new moon occurring on 9 January 2008, Marnie and her crew of two, Tigs and Walter, left the dock in Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach with Donna and Mason to wave farewell. Marnie, the 62 foot wooden ketch, was to return home having been commissioned and built in Auckland NZ on 15 April 1985 at the Salthouse Shipyard. The destination to be reached within 10 months of cruising through unexplored waters for those aboard. The first leg of the southward journey was anticipated to be a four day passage, with landfall in Spanish Wells, Bahamas. The first twenty four hours of the journey we experienced favourable winds from the south west as we rounded Cape Hatteras.
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