Having set ourselves the task of transforming our recently purchased Open 66 ex-Vendée Globe racer, NV, into a performance family cruiser, my partner, Timo, and I found ourselves (extremely) high and dry as cyclone season approached.
The favorite cyclone strategy in Fiji is to sit your boat in a cyclone pit in Vuda Marina. This is a hole dug in the ground in which the keel and rudder fits, with the
