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Cetacea in Australia

12 September 2023
Tony Wessendorff
In March 2023, we flew back to Cetacea in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. We had a bottom job (new paint on the bottom) done in the shipyard. We left PNG in May sailing to Indonesia. Half way there, we had a generator heat exchanger go out, so we ended up sailing to Darwin, Australia, which was the closest place we could get repairs made. We found that we got water in our fuel (in PNG) and it caused other problems as well. We got the engine and generator problems fixed and took off for Indonesia again, only to have more problems. So we boomeranged back to Darwin. We have been in Darwin for almost 4 months now, fixing one thing, only to have another thing break, fixing that thing, only to have something else break. And, each time, it takes weeks to get the parts shipped in. But, we have thoroughly enjoyed our time in Darwin!

Finally, we think we are ready to leave again, scheduled for Friday September 13th, crossing our fingers! We do not keep up with this blog site any longer. We do sporadic email blogs now. If you would like to get on the email blog list, just send me an email (GailCorriganW@gmail.com). But, I will update our position and add at least an annual note on where we are on this blog site.

More Later, much later
G&T
Vessel Name: Cetacea
Vessel Make/Model: Cheoy Lee 53' Motorsailor
Hailing Port: Houston, Texas, USA
Crew: Tony Wessendorff & Gail Corrigan
About:
After 25 fun filled years as an environmental consulting firm owner, Gail sold her company and she and her husband, Tony the CFO, retired to go sailing on their boat Cetacea (see photo gallery). Cetacea was in St. [...]
Extra: P.S. Cetacea is the higher order biological name for whales and dolphins. Whales and dolphins are cetaceans. And our boat is a big fat whale of a boat, hence the name Cetacea! Not to mention that Tony & Gail, like all sailors, love whales.
Cetacea's Photos - Sailing to San Andres
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Cetacea in San Andres anchorage.
Ship wreck 1 on reef.  A nice sight to see as you approach the island!
Ship wreck 2 on reef.  More reassurance on approaching the channel!
Ship wreck 3 on inner reef.  Once in the channel, it is still littered with wrecks!
Ship wreck 4.  At least this boat picked a beautiful spot!
Haynes Cay islet seen from our anchorage.
El Cuario islet that you can wade to from Haynes Cay, seen from our anchorage.
Shoreline hotel and marina.
Shoreline with Sunrise Hotel, which provides us free internet.
Shoreline with Aquarium Hotel.
Shoreline with our new yacht club, Club Nautico in foreground and hotels in background.
Our new yacht club - Club Nautico.
The best party boat!  They must do about 4 tours a day, packed with tourists.  And they play reggae and get all the tourists jumping up and down.  I think Cetacea is part of their tour now because they say something in Spanish and everyone claps and waves to us!
Big party boat right next to us.  They start at 10:00 pm - our old bedtime!  Now we have to stay up to make sure they don
Captain Morgan
Small boat totally loaded with tourists going out to the big party boat to go out to the islets.
Night one in San Andres and we found the best restaurant - La Regatta!
 
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