25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane
21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go
20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia
19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 304 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 328 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
16 February 2020 | 505 Miles East Of The Gold Coast
15 February 2020 | 617 Miles To Go
14 February 2020 | 755 Miles To Go
13 February 2020 | 888 Miles To The Gold Coast
12 February 2020 | 1032 Miles To The Gold Coast
11 February 2020 | 580 Miles North Of The Waikato
11 February 2020 | 1167 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1300 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1309 Miles To The Gold Coast
09 February 2020 | 1460 Miles To The Gold Coast Seaway
Katherine Ann
11 January 2018 | 270 Miles to Cape Horn
4:00pm Thursday 11th January 2018 ( UTC-4 ) It's always great to hear the g'ding! of the Iridium to signal an incoming message and so it was today to hear from Jason. Just to bring those people up to speed who are unfamiliar with my previous attempt in Katherine Ann, a 33ft sloop designed by Joe Adams. I had completed about two thirds of the trip when I got knocked down a few times about 400 miles South West of my present position or a hundred odd miles South West of Cape Horn. The rigging was damaged and a few other things which made it impossible to continue across the Pacific so I turned round and headed for the Falklands which took about a week to reach Stanley. As I have previously mentioned I was well looked after by Bob and Janet McLeod and I mentioned to him that I would probably strip Katherine Ann of the few functioning bits and send them back to Oz. Bob said hold on a bit and introduced me to Jason as a buyer - we had already met. I described as best I could what was and what was not, a price agreed and han ds shook. It took all of ten minutes so it was most pleasing that Jason has got her back up and running and just a shame we didn't meet again on the high seas. A pleasant and productive sail was had last night and though progress was very slow today we always seemed to keep moving. Frequent tweaks were required but it was a pleasure to be out in the cockpit in the bright warm sunshine and even now at 4:00pm it is 20C in the cabin. The promised North Westerly is establishing itself as I write and as it is expected to be quite strong I will be well reefed down, but as sundown is still 4 hours away and with a long twilight I'll try to put a few more miles on the log before that necessity.