Vessel Name: | Degrees of Freedom |
Vessel Make/Model: | Runnalls 38 |
Hailing Port: | Manly, Brisbane |
Crew: | Skipper-Phil;Skippers Mate-Esther;Navigator and DJ-Steve;Comms Officer-Doug;Bosun-Maddie |
About: | "Motlley" would be a fair description!! |
Extra: | The Plan - sail 350nautical miles into the middle of nowhere, attend a BBQ, sail 350nm back. Why? For the sausage When? Novemer 5 - 15 What else? Grow a mo for Movember and prostate cancer awareness |
Just leaving Lucinda Bay, Moreton Island after a weekend with the RQYS cruising club. Have just left me Hearty's at the Bay after a good swashbucklin' and now heading back to land on our trusty furner with the addition of some nice Doubloons to keep us in good spirits till we be out again. With thanks again to our Buccaneer hosts for the weekend, Scott, Molly and Tom on the great, grand ship Heemskirk!! ARRR, me hearty's, you be seeing us again next year for we be no landlubber's!
Thank you everyone who tried to phone me or text on my birthday whilst we were away. Little did we realise Lord Howe Island has no phone service! Have been without internet and phone for 10 days! Saturday sailing we were accompanied for a while by 2 whales! Maddie and I baked bread (lovely with butter and golden syrup) and there were a couple of ship sightings. Home safe and sound now albeit a little the worse for wear with a cold/flu I can't seem to shake. Enjoy the pics.
Sunday and the final leg into Brisbane saw us doing probably more passage under sail than we did at any other time on the trip. A nice flat sea and northerly pushed us along with the aid of the trusty Yanmar from time to time. We cleared Cape Morton after 10pm and then headed for the North East Channel [...]
It is a beautifull day, about 10kts of wind slightly behind the beam, smooth seas, enough cloud to tame the sun. Maddie is watching a King Arthur DVD and the rest of us doing nothing (which is much the same really.)
Orion, Taurus, Pleides, Magellan clouds, just a few of the wonders in the sky last evening. so, with another uneventful night passed we are now less than 100 nm from home! All are welcome to join us for breakfast sunday morning at Cafe le Mer,East Coast Marina at Manly.
Orion, Taurus, Pleides, Magellan clouds, just a few of the wonders in the sky last evening. so, with another uneventful night passed we are now less than 100 nm from home! All are welcome to join us for breakfast sunday morning at Cafe le Mer,East Coast Marina at Manly.