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- - we were flying over the waves under small jib alone , Brian and Ian pretending , to reassure the uncertain crew , that this was all pretty normal . Maybe she chose kayaking because she knows how much he loves the sea , and she gets seasick on Beulah . After supper a fine old yacht flying the Stars and Stripes came in under sail , dropped anchor , and dug it in by reversing the boat under mainsail alone . Pam wrote much of what follows last November , but we lost momentum in the final weeks at Calgary and our relocation back to New Zealand . These are wildlife sanctuaries and landing is prohibited , but according to our sailing guide they are worth stopping at for the birds alone . We dodged the Staten Island ferry ( not as easy as it sounds , they go so fast , relentless and merciless ) and sailed out to the Statue of Liberty , then watched the sun setting behind the World Trade Center on the way back . The marina is really nice ( and correspondingly expensive ) , isolated from the main road but with full facilities including chandler and boatbuilder , and a really fancy travel-lift which can raise even 40-ton boats and transport them to the boatyard . Trinity College still send their examiners to New Zealand from London each year , presumably because they like it so much . Pam spent much of the winter organizing the annual national recorder-playing weekend . On returning to the wharf the next morning we all drove off for a day 's sightseeing - - the wind was too fresh for Ian to sail back alone as planned . " Ian and Tony motored across the treacherous passage to the Coromandel Peninsula in a glassy calm , past the Watchman and his Dog , two tiny rocky islets in the middle of the ocean with a lighthouse and immense crashing waves that seem to arise out of nowhere , through the ferocious tide rips at the end of the Peninsula , past Elephant Cove on Happy Jack 's Island , a little enclosed rocky bay in the centre of an island that is not much bigger , holding just one or two boats ( it was already occupied ) , and down to Te Kouma harbour on the Coromandel for the night , before heading home . Fighting back panic they fought forward through the dense undergrowth , and ...