preparing for offshore

At last I'm making progress, with the hull sanded ready for awlcraft 2000 and antifouling, the teak decks reseamed and replugged, and a long list of other work completed and in progress. Behind me is "Hanne Danske", the 1991 German Frers designed Hylas 51 I bought in the Caribbean and sailed here to New Zealand.  She was a tidy looking well equipped offshore yacht before I started this refit 6 months ago, but the gel coat was tired and chalky and the teak decks had worn down over many offshore miles.  We also have to pass the very strict NewZealand requirements before NZ registered yachts are cleared for offshore, so the rudder and prop shaft have been out and refitted with new seals and bearings, the keel bolts torque tested, new rigging is being made, the mast rewired, and flares and liferaft need updating.
This time I'm planning to sail the trip singlehanded, to Fiji, a little over a thousand miles North of New Zealand, so I've also upgraded radar and autopilot, and am trying to make sure everything is reliable and safe.  We already have a good Icom SSB, Raymarine AIS, C80, and full instruments, and an Iridium phone with data port to a laptop for offshore calls and grib files weather download, and the boat was set up from new with electric winches, in boom furling, remote anchor winch etc which make her easy to handle singlehanded for a large yacht.
The best time for the trip to Fiji is late May,  after the cyclone season and before winter storms, so I need to launch late April to give me time for some shakedown sailing to be sure everything is OK before I leave.