Where would you spend the next 5years ??

Adethefridge said:
Absolutely nothing wrong with the Med, that's on the list for the following five years, we have a boat at present on the Algarve, I no it's not the Med but having spent a lot of time there during the past two winters we've found the weather is still a little cold and have been disappointed by how everything closes down for the winter months, perhaps things are different the further east you go ?
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Not really - it's for that reason that I abandon the boat and the Med and come back to the UK - though the weather's ghastly I can be fairly comfortable in a house.
 
KellysEye said:
It would be fun sailing to Tonga etc in winter, the Typhoon season is November 1st to 30th April.
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Certainly it's fun as well as increasingly popular, though Tonga (and the other islands) are still far from crowded, nothing like the Caribbean.

As you say, the cyclone season is Nov-April, during summer, so yachts generally leave NZ for Tonga and the other islands in May, just ahead of winter, and return October or early November. However a surprising number do now stay in Fiji through the cyclone season. There are cyclone moorings at Savusavu, Vuda Point and Nadi.

P.S. Tropical revolving storms are known as cyclones in this region. "Typhoon" is used for storms in the NW Pacific while "hurricane" is for those in the Atlantic and eastern Pacific. Of course they are all the same phenomenon.
 
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A 45DS would be and is a very fine liveaboard ... tho will have issues in the tropics - those big windows are fab in the uk etc ... but makes it a greenhouse in the tropics. Same goes for teak decks - hot underfoot - avoid.

I'm in st martin, everyone speaks English, some speak french, US Dollars and French restaurants, cheap boats, and some of the liveaboards are very nailed to the lagoon - lots with no engine and a few actual sheds on floating pontoons, at anchor. At least a hundred stay all year every year, with their own versions of hurrcane-prrof mooring. This is a "normal" place for European types to hang out... but usually, people in the area hover between trini in the south and (a gentle week north) is St Martin and BVI and USVI. Liveaboard in the US sounds a bit too regulated to me, people in uniforms asking stuff, sheesh. No thanks...

He said 9 hours to UK.? Forget the Pacific...
 
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