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

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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 [...]

7000 miles young!

29 May 2009 | Naxos Marina
Kat
After a few days of strong winds they finally died down last night, so you think it would be a peaceful night's rest.... but no, we were tied up to a buoy and spend the whole night banging into it, despite several efforts to apply long fenders at the waterline. We thought GHOST was being frisky but when we looked around all the boats around us were banging into their buoys and we sorely wished we'd put a line ashore to keep us off - though we didn't fancy doing that at 1am in the dark! After a bit of a lie in until 8.30 in an attempt to reclaim some sleep, we set off.

With unusual westerly winds (the prevailing winds are all northerlies) we managed a bit of sailing before the winds almost completely died and the engine came on, and we ended up motor sailing most of the 40nm to Naxos. Brad had been keen to stop at the island of Ios as this is the nudist capital of Greece but all of the anchorages are exposed to the South and the wind is supposed to come around tonight!

Instead we passed Ios and headed to Naxos marina where we were able to anchor & moor relatively easily as the winds were very light, although we were a little annoyed to find that there were no laid lines as stated in the sailing guide (Brad cursed the Greeks yet again!), so we had to circle around and get out the anchor. We are cursing having a retractable bow roller on the boat - it looks good but is not practical for cruisers!

Now we are out on the back of the boat with all of our new sunshades down and free internet access! Brad also cleaned the boat so is very happy, and we are having a beer to celebrate GHOST's 7000nm birthday! We plan to stay here for 2 nights to explore the island and perhaps visit the Sacred Island of Delos from here as we have heard Mikonos marina is a bad place to be at the moment as they are doing a lot of work....


Brad: Yeah go Ghost, 7000 big ones!! Here's to the next 7k!
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