SOUTHERN STAR

This happened in July 2015 and we still thought we were at least two years away from selling up everything and seriously searching for our boat. But 2016 brought a chain of events, starting in February with an email exchange with Jo and Robbie on Southern Star, who were considering selling her later in the year and returning to Australia. Southern Star was now in the Canary Islands where they were preparing to cross the Atlantic. We remained in touch with them over the next couple of months, and in the meantime we found a buyer for Defiant. After reaching verbal agreement with Jo and Robbie, we scheduled a trip to the US to undertake the surveys in August... We had been living in NZ since 2002, after spending time in London and the US. We had bought property in Auckland, a home to live in and an apartment as an investment. We brought our 40ft sailing yacht Defiant over to Auckland on Dock Express. We had a comfortable life with our lovely harbourside home, and our yacht which we spend..

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