The low pressure system that formed off Queensland is now moving down the coast and is over the Mid-North Coast this evening. Very strong winds and driving rain - we're glad to be sitting tight in the marina, although it's a bit uncomfortable.
We've just about run out of boat jobs and so we're just sitting on our hands waiting for this to pass.
45' round chine steel cruising cutter - a Joe Adams design and a very sea-kindly crew-friendly vessel
Hailing Port:
Sydney, Australia
Crew:
John and Shauna
About:
People ask us: "Are you semi-retired?". Well no, we're semi-working. We love cruising, but the problem is we also quite like what we do in our civilian lives. So, for the last few years, we have been cruising over the southern Winter and Spring. [...]In the not-too-distant future we will be doing this full-time, but meanwhile we get to fill the kitty over the summer and also get to see our adult sons and keep in touch with our friends.
Our last severalyears of cruising have been spent exploring New Caledonia and the beautiful islands of Vanuatu, an entrancing country with wonderful, uncomplicated, happy and generous people.
This winter we are at home doing some upgrades - navigation, rigid cockpit cover, watermaker and sundry [...]
other big dollar tasks. We're off again next Autumn but we will keep you informed with reasonably regular blog posts.
Sunshine on blue water, twelve knots on the beam....
The trades are blowing gently and we're sailing like a dream.....
Sipping from the cup of life and getting mostly cream....
"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats" - Ratty to Mole in "Wind in the Willows"