Our past scientific research, filming and diving charters:

2004 - Evohe sailed to Fiji and Tonga to work with scientists from Albany State University, New York, researching the history of climate change.

2003 In June we sailed to the equator, stopping off in Fiji to collect a group of Arizona State University climate scientists, and continuing on to Kiribati. We dived for coral cores in the Southern Gilbert Islands and used the flying boat to photograph the reef.
October found us in the Tokelau Islands, providing logistical support to a SPREP (South Pacific Region Environmental Programme) survey and education team before heading to New Zealand via Samoa and Tonga.

2002 • The BBC (Natural History) chartered Evohe for an expedition to the Snares Islands in New Zealand''s Subantarctic. Filming for "Wild Australasia" we dived with the penguins, sea lions and fur seals in the crystal clear waters of the Southern Ocean.
In the winter we headed south to the Auckland Islands in New Zealand's Subantarctic to film a penguin documentary for NHK of Japan.

2001 • Montevideo proved a great place to repair and provision the yacht for an NHK expedition to Antarctica. The Japanese film-crew joined us in Ushuaia, Argentina and we spent five weeks together filming, flying and diving on the Antarctic Peninsula.
We headed north from Tierra del Fuego to Patagonia through the Magellan Straits and the Chilean Fjords, photographing a glacier by flying boat along the way.

2000 • The Northwest Passage • Dodging sea-ice in the west and icebergs in the Baffin Sea, we succeeded in crossing from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, taking the Arctic route.

2000 • For four months we sailed the length of the Aleutian Islands, Alaska making a documentary for Natural History NZ Ltd and PBS (Public Broadcasting Service USA).

1999 • A research expedition, sailing the Cook Islands and the Line Islands in the mid Pacific Ocean; nine weeks coring coral for an Edinburgh University climate study.

1999 •Under charter to Natural History NZ Ltd, we headed south to Stewart Island (New Zealand) to film an octopus documentary.

1998 • A sea-snake documentary charter for TVNZ's Natural History Unit took us to Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea. We sailed from New Zealand to Lord Howe Island then inside the Great Barrier Reef to Darwin. Our next project, also in the Northern Territory of Australia, was filming a documentary called Menacing Waters.

1997 • Evohe was chartered by the University of Auckland for a research expedition studying southern right whales in the Auckland Islands, in New Zealand's Subantarctic.

1996 • Also in the Subantarctic, we spent seven weeks in the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island filming a TVNZ Natural History documentary "The lost Whales", about southern right whales.

1995 • Filming the TV series "Deep Blue" took nine months during which time we sailed the South Pacific from New Zealand's Subantarctic to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Australia's Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania and then back to Fiordland in the South Island of New Zealand.

1994 • Evohe was based in Fiordland and chartered by Fiordland Ecology Holidays for trips within the National Park and also to New Zealand's Subantarctic, to the Auckland and Campbell Islands, on various research voyages.

1993 • A charter with a Cambridge University team took us to the South Seas. We sailed from New Zealand to Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and on to Tongareva (Penrhyn) where a bathymetric survey of the lagoon was undertaken. We went on to visit Rakahanga, Manihiki and Palmerston atoll as part of an ocean level study.

1992 • The BBC chartered our vessel for the TV series "Nomads of the Wind". The expedition started in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. We sailed on across the South Pacific via the Cook Islands and Niue to Tonga where we picked up another film crew - this time from TVNZ - and assisted them with filming on Minerva Reef and the Kermadec Islands of New Zealand.

1990-92 • We circumnavigated the globe, from the South Seas Islands of Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands to Papua New Guinea and Darwin, Australia. We cruised the Islands of Indonesia - Timor, Bali and Java, on to Borneo, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and across the Indian Ocean to Djibouti, then through the Red Sea to Saudi Arabia, Egypt and through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, then over the Atlantic to the Caribbean, Panama, Ecuador, Galapagos and French Polynesia where we started the BBC "Nomads" charter.

1989 • Three weeks spent scouring the Tasman Sea for Asian pelagic drift-netting vessels was far from pleasant but it contributed to Earthtrust's (Hawaii) successful anti-driftnet campaign.

1988 •"Inter-island transport vessel Evohe" Under charter to the Cook Islands government, Evohe became a temporary Inter-island Trader.

1987 • Costa Rica was our base. From there we operated dive charters to Cocos Island.

1985/1986 • Sail training from the UK across the Atlantic to Venezuela and the Caribbean.

1984 • We bought Evohe ("the song of the wind" • in the poetry of Horace) and fitted her out.