Sailing Te Tāiko
Hi! We're Adam and Vicki.
We're excited you've found our site and we would like to take this opportunity to welcome you. Before we invite you to look around, we better introduce ourselves.
We live in Aotearoa New Zealand and we both share a love for travelling. On a holiday to Aitutaki in the Cook Islands, we booked a sailing trip with Sailing Aitutaki and we soon realised that it was possible to travel more but we could take our home with us. Brilliant!
After trying a couple of different sailing yachts, we bought Te Tāiko, a 40 ft sailing vessel in 2021. She was going to be our new home. Tāiko's amazing, she's our home, our workplace, and our vehicle for travel allowing us to see many of New Zealand's northern anchorages and soon destinations offshore. Along the way, we've learned a lot about ourselves, had many challenges but as many rewards.
Now that you know a bit more about us, we invite you to explore our website where you can access content such as our YouTube videos and blogs documenting some moments of our journey.
Thanks for stopping by!
Adam, Vicki, & Te Tāiko
Latest news
Sailing from Port Resolution to Efate, Vanuatu: Things to see and do in Efate
October 2nd, 2024
We sailed 133 nautical miles from Port Resolution, Tanna Island to Port Vila, Efate. Because we average 5. 5 knots, this was an overnight passage for us. Leaving Port Resolution we had a 2 m following swell and very light winds.
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Exploring TANNA ISLAND, VANUATU
September 15th, 2024
Click to see the full video on YouTube of our time on Tanna Island, Vanuatu
We sailed from Fiji to Vanuatu and entered Vanuatu at Port Resolution, Tanna Island. Port Resolution provides a somewhat sheltered anchorage and is the closest anchorage to Mt Yasur.
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Latest videos
Sailing Vanuatu to New Caledonia (Part 1)
We share with you the first part of our sail from Port Vila, Vanuatu to Noumea, New Caledonia. There's a lot of emotions in this episode so please hang in there while we share them with you.
Preparing to leave Vanuatu
n this video we share with you some of the things we do when we prepare to go offshore. There's always a lot to do and not having access to a car often makes the simplest tasks a bit more challenging (for example, buying groceries).
FOUR THINGS to do in Efate, Vanuatu
we’ve taken this opportunity to see Efate by land and drive the 125 km around Efate. Today we will be visiting the Pepeyo Cultural village, the Blue Lagoon, the Siviri Caves, and a local coffee factory that produces coffee from beans sourced from Tanna.
Sailing from Port Resolution to Efate, Vanuatu: Things to see and do in Efate
We sailed 133 nautical miles from Port Resolution, Tanna Island to Port Vila, Efate. Because we average 5. 5 knots, this was an overnight passage for us. Leaving Port Resolution we had a 2 m following swell and very light winds.
Continue readingExploring TANNA ISLAND, VANUATU
Click to see the full video on YouTube of our time on Tanna Island, Vanuatu
We sailed from Fiji to Vanuatu and entered Vanuatu at Port Resolution, Tanna Island. Port Resolution provides a somewhat sheltered anchorage and is the closest anchorage to Mt Yasur.
Sailing Vanuatu to New Caledonia (Part 1)
We share with you the first part of our sail from Port Vila, Vanuatu to Noumea, New Caledonia. There's a lot of emotions in this episode so please hang in there while we share them with you.
Preparing to leave Vanuatu
n this video we share with you some of the things we do when we prepare to go offshore. There's always a lot to do and not having access to a car often makes the simplest tasks a bit more challenging (for example, buying groceries).
FOUR THINGS to do in Efate, Vanuatu
we’ve taken this opportunity to see Efate by land and drive the 125 km around Efate. Today we will be visiting the Pepeyo Cultural village, the Blue Lagoon, the Siviri Caves, and a local coffee factory that produces coffee from beans sourced from Tanna.