As it happened, the breeze from the north stayed very useable all day yesterday and we were unexpectedly within range of Coffs by lunchtime - with some assistance from the diesel-fuelled topsail we made it in by 1630. The only delay was a big pod of minke whales who were playing in our path 5 miles off Coffs and were in no mood to get out of the way. This was just before a nasty burst of NW winds with a trough passing through (the barometer had fallen 6 points in 6 hours) and winds overnight topped 30 knots briefly: tucked up in the marina we were feeling smug, but sympathetic to our friends on "Sunboy" who were about 80 or so miles behind us, at sea. We spoke to them this morning and they told us they had a pretty miserable night, but that things were settling down. They will be in this morning.
We'll linger here a few days and hope to get a NE flow about Sunday to get to Sydney in one hop. Here are a few more pics - click!