Arrived offshore south of Niue 11 pm Saturday night so hove to (stall sails and stop forward motion) and waited for daylight to sail in. Once daylight came it was raining so hard we could barely see the island - it was lashing down. Gave the boat a good wash though!!
We are attached to moorings provided by the yachy club. The seabed here is solid rock, so anchoring very difficult.
The sea is crystal clear and visibility is about 40 metres!! There are a lot of whales and calves around, also seasnakes (harmless so they say!). Met up with a lot of our sailing chums already here and had a nice BBQ at the yachy club.
Niue is a huge flat rock jutting out of the sea, it is sheer as you approach so no beaches etc. to land dingies, so there is a big mechanical hoist to pull them out. There is a big hook off the end of the hoist left dangling over the water - you attach this to your 3 point harness, jump out, then work the hoist and pull the arm over the land. When the dingy is in the air, then lower onto a little truck to move the dingy into a parking space on the wharf. If you look up www.niueyachtclub.com there is probably a photo.
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