A short history of SV Companion -
In April of 2005, Kim and I signed an agreement to purchase a Leopard Catamaran and place it in the Moorings Charter Program for 5 years.

Buying the last 40' Catamaran built in 2005 by Robinson and Caine of South Africa, the boat was to be chartered in Placencia, Belize. It arrived in Belize in late November, and was used by Moorings Chartering until June of 2010. During that time, we were able to sail our boat many times, and have a few charters in other parts of the world; LaPaz Mexico, Abaco Bahama, British Virgin Islands, Nice France, Gocek Turkey (Turquoise Coast).

Max , our nephew and his dad, Mike will be joining, Kim and I for part of the voyage. We are also looking forward to meeting family and friends along the way.

Our blog is intended to share our journey, memories and information to sailors.

Enjoy, Dale & Kim

PS: 10 years after the start of our voyage, we are living in LaConner with SV Companion and the adventure continues.











Saturday, March 7, 2020

Queenstown and surrounding area

February 28 - March 2

In Queenstown, the adventure sports capital of New Zealand, with water sports, winter sports,
 mountain biking, bungy jumping, zip-lining, and loads of bars/pubs we stayed at a 3 bedroom condo overlooking Lake Wakatipu. On Friday, February 28 we became 3 couples with the Wallace’s joining us.
So we did the tourist things, gondola ride to view Queenstown the I did a “luge” ride (a modified tricycle) which like the real luge uses gravity for the driving force.
March 1 went to Glenorchy, a “modern ecological hippie community” where we took a beautiful hike along a marsh where black swans
were abundant. Kim comment, “I could live here”. Then off to Arrowtown an old mining community with a beautiful main street where we had a delicious lunch, and some shopping.







View from Gondola ride, Queenstown (below).




                           Everyone trying for that perfect
                             picture of the black swans
                             Near Glenorchy



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