Last December we moved Sauvage, our 1989 Jeanneau Sunkiss 47 sloop, from a swing mooring located at Catalina Bay (Waitemata Harbour) to Wentworth River, aka Whangamata Harbour, for the summer, where she now sits between pole moorings.
Whangamata is a smallish Coromandel town, swelling in population over summer. We visit Sauvage any chance we get. On our first weekend’s visit, I was delighted to bump into and chat with Boating New Zealand readers who had also moored their cat in the Harbour.
Heading home to Cambridge that Sunday, we stopped in at the Whangamata main street where Rafe (17) and Chris (15) found casual summer work, starting immediately. Kirsten and I were needed at work, so decided to set the boys up to live on . We did
