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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Sydney. Day 169
Came up the harbour this morning and are now slumming it in the VIP berth at the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron which is just adjacent to Kirribilli House where Malcolm doesn’t want to live. Beautiful views as approached the bridge … Continue reading
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Sydney. Days 167 and 168
Departed beautiful Bermagui at 8am after another Robbie breakfast, this time sausages and toast. Passed Montague Island and Narooma about an hour later. The forecast tomorrow is for fog but there seemed to be fog today, maybe due to a … Continue reading
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Bermagui. Day 166
Departed Twofold Bay at 7am after Robbie cooked breakfast and we decanted fuel from the bladder to the main tanks. There was a guided missile warship at the adjacent naval wharf that we couldn’t see when we anchored in the … Continue reading
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Eden. Days 164 and 165
After leaving Refuge Cove at 7am we had a clear, warmer day and good 20 knot breeze. It was a though rounding Wilsons Promontory was where things became better. The profile of Wilsons Promontory National Park looked impressive as we … Continue reading
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Refuge Cove. Days 163
Left the marina at 8am and passed Cape Schank with Pulpit Rock is visible just below it later that day. There was a lot of backwash and accordingly the seas were quite lumpy. We are having spaghetti carbonara tonight because … Continue reading
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Melbourne. Day 161
Had a great evening at Lyn’s in Melbourne, delicious roast filet steak dinner. This morning we did the victualling and drove back to Queenscliff where it was blowing over 25 knots, raining and cold. We decided it prudent not to … Continue reading
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Queenscliff. Day 158
Since the best time to transit Port Philip Heads is the first hour of the flood we decided to do another overnighter so that we could arrive there at 8.45am which is slack low water. The other major influence for … Continue reading
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Apollo Bay. Day 157
We had considered leaving Port Fairy at 3am in order to cover the 80nm and reach Apollo Bay in daylight. But we decided to have a lazy day in Port Fairy, leave before sunset doing an overnighter and arrive in … Continue reading
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Port Fairy. Day 156
Went into town and had a shower at the shire building. Stopped by the French bread shop for some breakfast before departing Portland just after 9am. We have a good SW breeze for the short 30nm sail to Port Fairy. … Continue reading
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Portland. Day 155
Was lying in my bunk half asleep waiting for some daylight when all of this noise came from the cockpit, engines being dropped, then started. I heard prof say, “maybe that will wake you up”, he was ready to go. … Continue reading
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