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 [...]

Toilets of Vanuatu

12 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
Kat
Vanuatu can certainly be a strange place. Perhaps a good reflection of our time spent here is the range of toilets we have encountered during our travels; from dark and dirty with see through walls in a strange art gallery/massage parlour combination, to hole-in-the-ground affairs where it was better to do your business behind the hut rather than in it, to kava bar loos where the curtains are just long enough to hide the identity of the person whose toilet bits are on display from under the curtain, to a random WC sitting in the middle of nowhere on a sand beach with no plumbing, to perfectly preserved bathrooms down 40m below the surface on the Coolidge, a 70-year-old shipwreck.



And yet in contrast to all this yachties are made extremely welcome in a lovely sheltered anchorage just off Oyster Bay resort, where the toilets were some of the best I've ever seen, decorated with beautiful local flowers, half open to the sky with a garden to look at and hermit crabs playing in the crushed coral at your feet to keep you entertained as you do your business.



So the best way to deal with Vanuatu is to take it as it comes, smile when you get delivered a completely different drink than you ordered, nod when someone gives you a deflated Dora the Explorer ring to try to float down a river on, expect the most random things in random places and enjoy the hospitality and wonderful friendliness of all the local ni-Van people. We hope this place doesn't change.
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