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An 82’ twin-engine sailing vessel with proven endurance and safety,
well suited to transporting and supporting expeditions to remote locations worldwide.

 accommodates 12 passengers + 8 crew

 


Additional equipment includes a motorised flying boat for aerial surveys & filming,
2 sturdy rigid inflatables  & 2 Bauer dive compressors

Satellite communications - email, fax and telephone

Past Projects: 2007 - NZ subantarctic  - Natiolnal Geographic Magazine -  southern right whale photography and bipopsy sampling. 2007  - Great Australian Bight  - NHNZ /  Discovery Channel -  Bluefin tuna documentary. 2006  –  Galapagos - Edinburgh University climate research, based on fossil corals. 2006  – Fiords of Southern Chile - Otago University dolphin survey. We spent six weeks in search of the Chilean dolphin, recording sightings of whales and dolphins between the Beagle Channel and Puerto Montt. 2006  –  Antarctic Peninsula - we spent February dodging ice in search of unclimbed peaks. 2005 – Southern Ocean. We sailed from New Zealand to South America. A voyage of  32 days in the Furious Fifties with no sign of other human life. We provisioned in Chile and the Falkland Islands, for an expedition to South Georgia and Tierra del Fuego. 2004 – Fiji and Tonga working alongside scientists from Albany State University, New York, collecting coral cores for climate research. 2003 – Fiji and Southern Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) with Arizona State University climate scientists. Drilled underwater for coral cores and used the flying boat to survey and photograph the reef.  2003 – Samoa and Tokelau Islands - Logistical support for SPREP (South Pacific Region Environmental Programme) survey and education team. Teaching conservation - Back to New Zealand via Tonga. 2002 – Subantarctic, Snares Islands BBC Natural History documentary expedition, filming “Wild Australasia”   Outstanding diving, with penguins, sea lions and fur seals in the crystal clear waters of the Southern Ocean. 2002 – Auckland Islands in New Zealand’s subantarctic- midwinter filming expedition- penguin documentary for NHK of Japan. 2001 – Antarctic Peninsula. NHK (Japan) film-crew  joined us in Ushuaia, Argentina. We spent five weeks in Antarctica, diving and filming icebergs from the  flying dinghy. 2001 –  Chilean Fiords, Tierra del Fuego, Magellan Strait and Patagonia, photographing  glaciers from the flying boat. 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 Ocean by this infamous Arctic route. 2000 –The Aleutian Islands, Alaska; four months making a documentary about the Aleutian chain for Natural History NZ Ltd and PBS Oregon. 1999 – Cook Islands and the tiny Line Islands in the mid Pacific Ocean; nine weeks collecting coral samples for an Edinburgh University climate study. 1999 – Stewart Island (New Zealand)  Natural History NZ charter, to film an octopus documentary. 1998 – Ashmore Reef in the Timor Sea; filming a sea-snake documentary for TVNZ’s Natural History. We sailed from New Zealand to Lord Howe Island then inside the Great Barrier Reef to Darwin. 1998 – Northern Territory of Australia, filming a documentary called Menacing Waters. 1997 – Auckland Islands, in New Zealand’s Subantarctic. An Auckland Unversity research expedition studying Southern Right Whales. 1996 – Auckland Islands and Campbell Island 7 weeks filming a TVNZ Natural History documentary about Southern Right Whales, “The Lost Whales”. 1995 – South Pacific from New Zealand’s Subantarctic to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to Tasmania and back to Fiordland in the South Island of New Zealand- nine months filming the TV series "Deep Blue." 1994 – New Zealand’s Subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands- Evohe was chartered by Fiordland  Ecology Holidays for trips and various research voyages. 1993 –  The South Seas. A Cambridge University expedition. Cook Islands - a bathymetric survey of the  lagoon at Tongareva (Penrhyn).The project included work on Rakahanga, Manihiki and Palmerston atolls all  part of an ocean level study. 1992 –  Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia - BBC Natural History-  filming  "Nomads of the Wind”.   we then sailed via the Cook Islands, Niue to Tonga ,  Minerva Reef and the Kermadec Islands  filming a TVNZ natural history documentary about reef fish. 1990-92 – Circumnavigation - From New Zealand to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, the  Solomon Islands to Papua New Guinea and Darwin, Australia. Then 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” film. 1989 – Tasman Sea - Three weeks spent scouring the sea for Asian pelagic drift-netting vessels. Far from pleasant but it contributed to Earthtrust’s (Hawaii) successful anti-driftnet campaign. 1988 – Cook Islands. Under charter to the Cook Islands government,  Evohe became a temporary Inter-island Trader. 1987 – Costa Rica was our base. From there operated dive charters to Cocos Island. 1985/1986 – Sail training, from the UK across the Atlantic to Venezuela and the Caribbean. We were all trainees. 1984 – We fitted out Evohe  (“the song of the wind” – in the poetry of Horace) for a world voyage with no idea that it would last for 21 years.......So far. For the past 21 years Steve Kafka has sailed Evohe on research projects, documentary filming assignments, mountaineering and diving expeditions arround the world.                        Alex,  the racing sailor in the family spent much of his childhood on the boat and is now an Offshore Captain.

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