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 [...]
Independence Day and our rumway
05 July 2010 | Papeete, Tahiti
Kat
After heading back to Tahiti from Mo'orea we chilled out for a few days on the town quay in Papeete with Delos who had some friends on board. Wanting to explore the island we hired a car to seat 8, which ended up being a Hertz shuttle van and visited an ancient marae site, the world famous surf break at Teahupoo, the Bellvedere view point giving the view across Tahiti Iti (the smaller "island" which is actually joined to Tahiti Nui) and Point Venus where Cook observed the transit of venus in 1769.
The following day was July the 4th and we had organised an Independence Day party to be held on the pontoon between our boats. We were joined by cruisers from quite a few boats of varying nationalities, but all the Americans had their flags flying so Brad retaliated by hoisting the Aussie flag and Boxing kangaroo at the back of our boat. The day was a hot one and we filled up our paddling pools and sat around with our feet nice and cool with a few beers. Later on Delos played Team America on their projector onto a sheet at the back of their boat and we all sat on the pontoon to watch the show.... great fun!
We also managed a trip to the duty free shop which meant that we could buy alcohol at normal rather than super inflated French Polynesian prices. We now therefore have several Heineken 5l mini-kegs on board (disappearing at a very fast rate) and a jerry can full of rum! In fact we used the empty rum bottles to make a "rumway" between GHOST and Delos - hard to explain but see the pictures!
STILL waiting for parts for the rigging we decided to follow Delos and pretty much all the other cruisers we know northwest to explore the other Society Islands and celebrate Bastille Day and the eclipse so will head off shortly towards Huahine, Raiatea and finally Bora Bora.
For Delos 'blog see:
http://svdelos.blogspot.com/2010/07/wreck-diving-in-tahiti-by-brian.html
and:
http://svdelos.blogspot.com/2010/07/party-on-in-tahiti-by-brian.html
The following day was July the 4th and we had organised an Independence Day party to be held on the pontoon between our boats. We were joined by cruisers from quite a few boats of varying nationalities, but all the Americans had their flags flying so Brad retaliated by hoisting the Aussie flag and Boxing kangaroo at the back of our boat. The day was a hot one and we filled up our paddling pools and sat around with our feet nice and cool with a few beers. Later on Delos played Team America on their projector onto a sheet at the back of their boat and we all sat on the pontoon to watch the show.... great fun!
We also managed a trip to the duty free shop which meant that we could buy alcohol at normal rather than super inflated French Polynesian prices. We now therefore have several Heineken 5l mini-kegs on board (disappearing at a very fast rate) and a jerry can full of rum! In fact we used the empty rum bottles to make a "rumway" between GHOST and Delos - hard to explain but see the pictures!
STILL waiting for parts for the rigging we decided to follow Delos and pretty much all the other cruisers we know northwest to explore the other Society Islands and celebrate Bastille Day and the eclipse so will head off shortly towards Huahine, Raiatea and finally Bora Bora.
For Delos 'blog see:
http://svdelos.blogspot.com/2010/07/wreck-diving-in-tahiti-by-brian.html
and:
http://svdelos.blogspot.com/2010/07/party-on-in-tahiti-by-brian.html
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