Month: October 2015

Pete and I are home, the cats are back from prison and we commence a new era. Pete is starting his own business, and I will be returning to work. We are looking forward to sailing Wine-Dark Sea again, and taking some of our learnings from our cruise with Paul, Clare and Pilgrim and applying […]

I managed to drag myself out of bed for the line throwing and exit of the harbour. It was uncomfortable as the sea was still up though there wasn’t much breeze. We exited at around 8am, and turned south under engine at around 7 knots. We put up the main to steady our motion, and […]

Lazy morning lolling around in pyjamas, drinking tea and coffee, catching up on email, and other electronic stuff. Text from mum to say they are following the blog, which is great. Wind is whistling through the rigs all around us, but we aren’t heeling today, so that’s a bit better. A little rain passing through […]

We gradually awoke around 9, all feeling much better for a couple of bourse good sleep. It was a beautiful morning with the nor’easter still gently cooing everything down and the sun continuing to blaze down from a blue sky. We know the southerly is coming, but it’s still only at Newcastle, so we all […]

I woke at around 8am, with another glorious blue sky overhead. Pete stuck his head on my door and checked if I wanted coffee. I luxuriated in bed with a coffee and my book for about an hour, then realised that my iPhone time had changed for NSW and that I really should have been […]

A beautiful morning, with very light breeze, sunshine and a million tinnies buzzing around fro the first crack of daylight! It’s busy out here this morning as I sit on deck with my cup of tea and I could stay here forever. Such a great little place, good crabbing, good provisioning and great yacht club. […]

I woke up to the dulcet tones of rugby commentary as Pete had done the 4am wake up to watch Australia and England. As I woke and got up, so Australia won which means England cannot get beyond the first round, and Wales are through. Even worse for Clare, we ran out of gas before […]

We all had a good sleep in and surfaced around 9 to another sunny day, but the breeze was up. We had smoothies for breakfast and cleaned and tidied the boat. Clare talked to Paul who was on track for airport and we talked about what birthday party arrangements we would make for the returning […]

There was an amount of tension in the air as we set off, though more with Clare than Pete and I as we didn’t know what to expect. We slowed down to ensure we reached the shallow section at the right stage of the tide, and from South White Cliffs the hard work and heavy […]

An early start, coffee, tea, clean up and prepare for departure including filling water tanks. Then we headed into town to see Paul and run the plan by him. By this time, Clare had thought about the possibility of us doing wide bay bar without Paul and perhaps meeting him at Southport instead. We went […]