S/V Bluebottle

22 March 2018 | Barrenjoey head, Pittwater NSW
Sydney - Hobart voyage begins
12 March 2018
Sea voyage, again!
15 January 2018
Cutting into the fabric
15 January 2018
Afloat but not moving
17 May 2017 | Hobart, Tasmania
I bought another boat!!
07 April 2016
I bought a boat!
06 March 2016
Bluebottle Finds A New Owner
17 March 2015 | Hobart
Bluebottle is For Sale, for sail ...
19 December 2013
To Keep, or Not To Keep, that is the Question
19 December 2013
Dead Duck Dramatically Discovered
16 September 2013 | Kings Pier Marina, Hobart
Living aboard, post-desert
25 May 2013
Older posts have photos added
25 May 2013
Dry Land Plus Rain
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 3
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 2
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 1.1
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 1
06 December 2012
Off to another ocean
11 September 2012
We Hauled.
05 August 2012
Bruny Is. Easter Cruise: Swans in the Duck Pond

Storm Winds And Moonrise

20 December 2010
The winds blew over 30 knots today and I canceled a dentist's appointment to stay on board, in case another boat dragged. It was a wild day, until the evening when everything became still, and the moon rose, entangling itself in the wires of the Glebe Island bridge.

I put another of my Uke Plus Richard songs up on YouTube:

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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

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