Oddies Marine (New Zealand) Offers Discounts to Active Sea Mercy Volunteer Vessels

Juliet Abbott & Aaron Blackmore from Oddies Marine have offered to help out the Sea Mercy vessels and skippers with marine equipment supplies.  Fiji and its beautiful people are close to their hearts and they are visiting Fiji to volunteer on the Sea Bridge program in June/July 2016.  Oddies Marine will give a discount to those vessels and skippers actively assisting Sea Mercy in appreciation of the amazing work of the organization, helping the people of Fiji and the Pacific.

 Oddies Marine is located on Beach Road in the Waikawa Marina, Picton, in the heart of the Marlborough Sounds. The business was established in 1982, supplying chandlery, marine hardware, accessories and boat building products, for all sizes of dinghy’s, yachts, powerboats and launches.

Oddies Marine provides top, quality, experienced service in the marine industry. What we haven't got, we can get!

Please contact them on 0272 448604 or abbott.juliet@gmail.com if you need any marine supplies for your boat. They can freight anywhere in New Zealand or over to the Pacific if required.  Juliet & Aaron can also bring with required items with them to Fiji in June/July this year if it is not urgent.

Article in "The Saturday Paper" (Australia) Spotlights Sea Mercy's Work in Fiji

NEWS

APR 9, 2016

The yacht owners helping to rebuild cyclone-ravaged Fiji

MEGAN ANDERSON

As another tropical cyclone makes Fiji’s recovery even more difficult, yachties are working with the Fijian government to get aid where other vessels can’t.

SHELTERBOX

Sea Mercy volunteers deliver shelter kits to Fiji’s outer islands.

Wendy and Ian Shields were moored in the mangroves at Port Denarau when cyclone Winston smashed into Fiji on February 20. The category 5 storm hurtled through the Nadi marina just after midnight – after flattening many of the outlying islands during the day.

“The wind was screaming through the rigging,” Wendy tells The Saturday Paper from Savusavu on their yacht, Outsider.

The most brutal cyclone to make landfall in Fiji battered the island with hurricane-force winds, destroying almost 55,000 homes and killing 44 people.

The next day, yachties such as Wendy and Ian were asking what they could do to help. “There were a couple of us on yachts that said, ‘Gee, Fiji must be a mess. I wonder what we can do?’ ”

Click on the link below to read the full article.
The Yacht Owners Helping Rebuild Cyclone Ravaged Fiji

Sea Mercy Warehouse Volunteers Preparing Aid For Those Affected by the Flooding and TC Zena by Susan Skeggs

Vinaka to everyone who helped with unloading today. My phone died so I don't have final pics of the warehouse crammed full! It was a huge effort to offload 60 feet worth of amazing donations - sooooooo many cans! 

The warehouse will be open tomorrow (Sunday 10th April) from 9am - if you are available to help, we still have loads of school supplies, toys, clothes, medical and building supplies to be decanted and reorganized. Our goal for tomorrow is to be able to back utes in so we can start deploying supplies to flood affected areas ASAP.