GHOST

A blog account of the activities of yacht GHOST.

Vessel Name: GHOST
Vessel Make/Model: Hanse 470e
Hailing Port: Southampton
Crew: Brad and Kat McMaster
06 May 2011 | Melbourne
01 February 2011 | Melbourne
05 December 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia
28 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia
28 November 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia
28 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia
23 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia
17 November 2010 | Coffs Harbour
12 November 2010 | 100nm NE of Coffs Harbour
10 November 2010 | closing on Australian coast east of Brisbane
08 November 2010 | On route to Oz
07 November 2010 | Baie de Prony, New Caledonia
06 November 2010 | Vanuatu & New Caledonia
03 November 2010 | Noumea, New Caledonia
25 October 2010 | Santo, Vanuatu
14 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
13 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
12 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
05 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
16 September 2010 | On route to Vanuatu
Recent Blog Posts
06 May 2011 | Melbourne

It's Official

It's a sad but good thing, we no longer own GHOST. She is now owned by an architect in Sydney who has plans of sailing the South Pacific once again.

01 February 2011 | Melbourne

Reality bites!!

It's been a while since we updated the blog. Apologies for that but we've been busy fighting off the onslaught of reality, not really wanting to admit it's over! After arriving it was the welcome party in Sydney, followed by a hectic week of moving ALL our personal stuff off GHOST. On a side note, it [...]

05 December 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia

Pictures from the party & sailing around Sydney harbour

See pics:

28 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia

GHOST for sale!

Well it's sad news but GHOST is now officially up for sale!

28 November 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia

Welcome to Sydney GHOST

Well it was a brilliantly sunny day as we set off from Pittwater in GHOST, entering the Sydney heads about lunchtime. It was a pretty emotional sail through this iconic harbour which Brad has envisaged sailing into as long as he's dreamt of sailing home to Australia. Soon we were pulling up to the [...]

Mo'orea - one of our favourite places

03 July 2010 | Opunohu Bay, Mo'orea
Kat
After a few more days in Tahiti where we enjoyed a "bring your own pool to the pool party" in the marina (basically we all bought paddling pools and water pistols and set them up on one of the pontoons in the marina - lots of fun), got very bored watching the Miss Tahiti show (so much so that we left before the swimsuit show) and after a few cool scuba dives involving plane and boat wrecks, we decided to head back to the anchorage in Mo'orea that we had particularly enjoyed after the regatta.

The anchorage is on the east side of Opunohu bay on the north side of Mo'orea and is pretty large holding around 20 boats all anchored in around 3-4m in beautiful clear water over white sand. It's wonderful to be able to see exactly where your anchor is! We've been chilling out with Delos keeping very busy - we've climbed up to the Belvedere view point to see the fantastic view of Mt Rotui dividing Cook & Opunohu bays. We've also hired scooters and whizzed around the island and also inland on a crazy off-road scooter route to visit a waterfall where Brian demonstrated his impressive motorcross talents reaching a place where surely no scooter has been before. We also took the dingy to visit an area where they feed the stingrays and you can stand in chest-deep water and rub them as they all swim around you, which was absolutely fantastic and they feel amazingly soft. We have also done a few scuba dives in various places seeing lots of black tip reef sharks with fantastic visibility in the water and the boys have had some unsuccessful spear fishing and squid jagging trips which has kept them busy!

A particularly memorable event was a couple of days ago on a calm night when we rigged up a sheet on the back of Delos and watched Mutiny on the Bounty on the projector - it was filmed here and it was amazing to watch the scenery in the film and then turn around and see it for real, which definitely wins a prize for most atmospheric cinematic experience! We also had a beach pot luck and bonfire with lots of the other boats in the anchorage to celebrate various birthdays and finally headed back to Tahiti.

For more photos see: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/bradmcmaster1/TahitiMoOrea#

For Delos' blog see:
http://svdelos.blogspot.com/2010/07/gang-of-stalkers-on-moorea-by-brady.html

and also:
http://svdelos.blogspot.com/2010/07/hiking-snorkeling-and-coconut-crabs-on.html
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