18 September 2022 | 08 16.9'S:116 39.6'E, Bali Sea
22 July 2022 | 05 05.0'S:131 02.6'E, Banda Sea
08 July 2022 | 10 34.2'S:142 03.3'E, Torres Strait, Arafura Sea
01 June 2022 | Coral Sea, East Coast Australia
11 April 2022 | 32 14.9'S:152 41.2'E, Tasman Sea, East Coast Australia
10 April 2022 | Newcastle, Australia Tasman Sea
24 December 2020 | Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club, Newport, NSW, Austrailia
05 June 2020 | Ku-Ring-Gai-Chase National Park, NSW, Australia
21 March 2020 | Sydney Harbour
15 March 2020 | Tasman Sea
15 March 2020 | Port Arthur, Tasmania
12 March 2020 | Port Arthur, Tasmania
10 January 2020 | Prince of Wales Bay
31 December 2019 | 42 53.0'S:147 20.15'E, Hobart, Tasmania
29 December 2019 | 41 06.6'S:149 49.8'E, Tasman Sea
28 December 2019 | 39 42.26'S:149 58.0'E, South of Bass Strait, Tasman Sea
27 December 2019 | 36 59.9'S:151 04.4'E, Southbound Off the Coast of Australia
26 December 2019 | 35 17.3'S:151 23.5'E, Southbound Off the Coast of Australia
25 December 2019 | Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Sydney
17 December 2019 | Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Sydney
At Sea..a calm and beautiful night
22 January 2017
Larry Green
Around sunset yesterday the wind had gone to virtually nothing and the seas were about 1 foot. So calm that our headsail, which we had been using to sail when there was wind and to steady the boat (i.e. keep the rolling to a minimum) when there was not enough to sail became useless so it was put away and we have been motoring in this calm sea ever since. Charlene took the early watch so I got to sleep until about 0100. When I got on deck it was one of the most beautiful sights I have seen in a long while. No moon yet, so the only light was from the blanket of stars. There must have been a few clouds here and there which appeared as nothing in the sky above, no stars, no color just a patch of nothing. Though this has been a difficult passage from the sense of frustration with marinas and sailmakers and good sailing weather we could not fully take advantage of, it has still been a passage. We keep on going and will continue as long as it is fun and/or possible. Currently we are thirty eight nautical miles from the Caribbean side of the traffic separation lanes for the entrance to the Panama Canal. The closer we get the more traffic there is likely to be; it will be daylight then so it should be interesting to see the hundreds of ships either exiting the canal, entering the canal or anchored waiting their time for a transit. Just about a month from now, if all goes according to our current plan, we will be anchored in "The Flats" where private pleasure vessels wait for their appointed time. A number of different things have happened which delayed our arrival here, so we are disapointed that we have not spent the time we wanted to visiting the San Blas or Bocos del Toro areas of Panama. From what we understand, each of those are different but very special places. Timing is everything in what we do, mainly because of seasonal weather patterns. If you start across the Pacific late in the year you miss some really spectacular places simply because you are hurrying along to be far enough south to miss the Pacific hurricane season. So for now we have chosen to get the boat and ourselves ready to transit the canal the last week in February, then sail on to the Galapagos Islands as the first stop headed west to all those exotic places. I am working on a Google Earth project which if it works will allow us to post a link to Google Earth that has our expected route and when we might be in the places we intend to stop. More later