S/V Bluebottle

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7 knots Past Kingfisher Bay!

17 November 2010
Joe
Well, it's 2 o'clock, and we are here much earlier than expected; the tide has given us a boost and for some of the time we've been sailing. Right now we're doing 6.5 knots. So the decision is to keep right on going, until we reach Ungowa, 7 miles further down south. At the rate we're going, with the making tide barging us, we should be at anchor by 3:30pm, time enough to go ashore, to buy some milk, bread and fruit. It puts us within easy reach of the shallows which we must cross at high tide tomorrow, 7 am. 6.8 knots now! 6.9!! Hey, 7. Love that tide.
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Vessel Name: BLUEBOTTLE (ex-Aura)
Vessel Make/Model: Lidgard 49' steel ketch
Hailing Port: Hobart
Crew: Adrienne Godsmark and Joe Blake
About:
We have completed our trans-Pacific voyage - from Panama to Hobart via Ecuador, Mexico, French Polynesia, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and Bundaberg, and are now pausing before resuming land life. [...]
Extra:
When the port authorities here were approached to renew our Panamanian boat registration, they said "You can't call your boat Aura - that's taken" so we decided to call her Bluebottle! If you know the Goons, you know of Bluebottle, that little twit! He was always getting into trouble with his thin [...]

BLUEBOTTLE (ex-Aura)

Who: Adrienne Godsmark and Joe Blake
Port: Hobart