Boating New Zealand - May 2018

FAR LEFT Evohe crewman Hamish

McFarlane in the vessel’s wheelhouse.

LEFT Evohe shoulders her way through

the endless westerly swell.

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With all hands on deck, the people and their gear are

ooaded in an hour or two but Evohe’s charmed life on

this trip is about to end. he GRIB ile weather maps

show a system barrelling towards us with the onion-

peel isobars that are more normal in these waters.

We weigh anchor and motor south through Port

Ross to shelter in Terror Cove. Soon a 50-knot

nor’wester is screaming through the rigging and a

light layer of sleet gathers on deck. January in the

Auckland Islands.

Within 36 hours the system has passed and Evohe’s

two 135hp Ford diesels power her out past Enderby

Island and north to Bluf to do it all again. his time

taking two albatross researchers to Adams Island at the

southern end of the Auckland archipelago and more sea

lion folk to Campbell Island. Once again a heavily-laden

Evohe plugs her way out of Bluf, past Stewart Island

and into the Roaring Forties – that band of latitudes

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