About

Viki Moore

My name is Viki. I live in Christchurch, New Zealand and I have been sailing since I was eight years old when my Mum & Dad bought me a little pink Optimist.

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I bought my yacht Wildwood – a Young 88 keelboat about 18 years ago, and I have had lots of great adventures on her, racing and cruising around Lyttelton, Banks Peninsula and the Marlborough Sounds.

Ever since I can remember, I have dreamed about travelling and sailing around the world. In the mean time I’ve been having lots of local sailing adventures locally and internationally and helping to grow the sport and recreation of sailing in Canterbury and New Zealand.

As well as my on water adventures I am proud to be the President of the Little Ship Club of Canterbury, I formed the group Women Who Sail New Zealand, and I am also a Director of Yachting New Zealand.

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You can read more about my work and business interests on my LinkedIn Profile.

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You can contact me by using the form below.

30 thoughts on “About”

  1. Thanks for liking my recent post on The Covey Letter. Looks like you’re going sailing!! Hang in there, you cannot plan too much, but I believe you can wait and wait and wait if too cautious.
    A voyage should never be begun when your bank account is topped off and life is in perfect order. Better that your life ashore and afloat be marginally miserable and you not know for certain where the next deposit is coming from. Makes the journey so much more interesting if you ask me.
    Do you have “World Sailing Routes” by Jimmy Cornell? Recomended reading.
    Cap’n Bob

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    • Great advice! I have just finished reading World Cruising Planner by Jimmy Cornell. Wonderful resource. Will definitely buy his other books.
      Thanks for visiting my site 🙂

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  2. Hi Vicki, nice to meet you. Wow! What a fabulous dream you have. And the courage to go for what you want. I’ll be checking our your blog – we’ll be in NZ in January, my second visit, Don’s first.
    Thank you for following our blog. I hope you enjoy the stories of our journey, both inner and outer. And do please feel free to join the conversation.
    Cheers, and happy sailing
    Alison

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  3. Hi Viki,
    What a wonderful dream you have. If I wasn’t sea-sick I would probably have the same dream but for now I am more around-the-world-trip-on-foot kind of dreamer 🙂

    I just saw that you started following my blog. Thank you. It really makes me happy 🙂
    As promised (and if you are interested), you can receive a postcard from me. Just click on the button on my home page (so I know where to send it :)) http://offtowanderland.com/

    Cheers from Sweden ❤ Myriam

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  5. Hi 🙂

    Really love your blog ❤

    I am thinking of moving from wordpress.com to a self-hosted wordpress but sadly I will lose the WordPress Reader and my followers :/
    So if you still like my stories ( I hope you do :)), could you please sign-up via mail?
    My new sign-up link : http://eepurl.com/WPz5H

    Thank you so very much and I hope to hear from you soon

    Myriam @OffToWanderland
    http://offtowanderland.com

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  9. CHOICE

    Sterling Hayden

    To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm
    foundation of financial unrest. Otherwise you are doomed to a routine
    traverse, the kind known to yachtsmen who play with their boats at
    sea, “cruising” it is called. voyaging belongs to the wanderers of the
    world, those who cannot, or will not, fit in.

    If you are contemplating a voyage and you have the means, abandon the
    venture until your fortunes change. Only then will you know what the
    sea is all about.

    “I’ve always wanted to sail the south seas, but I can’t afford it.”
    What these men can’t afford is not to go. They are enmeshed in the
    cancerous discipline of security, and in the worship of security we
    fling our lives beneath the wheels of routine. But we are brainwashed
    by our economic system until we end up in a tomb beneath a pyramid of
    time payments: mortgages, prosperity, gadgets, playthings that divert
    our attention from the sheer idiocy of the charade. The years thunder
    by,. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie cracked in the dust
    on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed.

    Where then lies the answer? In choice! Which shall it be, bankruptcy
    of purse, or bankruptcy of life.?

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  11. Viki,

    Thank you for deciding to follow our blog, Bimini Dream.

    I’ve gone very quickly through your website here, and I see you are working on plans to sail around the world. We, meanwhile, are working on plans to sail out of North America’s Chesapeake Bay.

    Yours is the more ambitious set of plans, I think, and it makes me all the more grateful that someone with your experience would be interested in a couple of middle-aged beginners like us. 🙂

    It might be years before my wife and I work up to leaving our own east coast behind us. But I expect that what you’ve put into Astrolabe Sailing will be very helpful to us in the future, wherever our abilities take us.

    Safe sailing,
    Mike

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    • Thanks Mike! All the best with your plans and adventures too. I love following sailing blogs and am motivated by how many people are on the same path as us! The Chesapeake sounds like an amazing place and we would love to visit there one day. Will keep in touch!

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  17. Viki
    As one of the ‘stranded sailors’ I am most appreciative of your efforts on our behalf.
    Many thanks.
    Jim Kellam
    sv Haulback
    PS… From Vancouver, Canafa

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