We have a short southern summer charter season this year with some interesting jobs, including a 2 week sea-lion pub survey in Stewart island, and our regular role as logistical support vessel for several trips to the Auckland islands, the Snares  and  the Antipode islands supporting Albatross studies and sea-lion work. this will give us  the time to get  Tiama Ready for her voyage to the Northern hemisphere, at this point we have not committed ourselves to a definite course North, either true the central pacific and the NW passage or around Cape horn, it depends on what we will be doing in Northern Europe and the Arctic.

So if you