GHOST

A blog account of the activities of yacht GHOST.

Vessel Name: GHOST
Vessel Make/Model: Hanse 470e
Hailing Port: Southampton
Crew: Brad and Kat McMaster
06 May 2011 | Melbourne
01 February 2011 | Melbourne
05 December 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia
28 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia
28 November 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia
28 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia
23 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia
17 November 2010 | Coffs Harbour
12 November 2010 | 100nm NE of Coffs Harbour
10 November 2010 | closing on Australian coast east of Brisbane
08 November 2010 | On route to Oz
07 November 2010 | Baie de Prony, New Caledonia
06 November 2010 | Vanuatu & New Caledonia
03 November 2010 | Noumea, New Caledonia
25 October 2010 | Santo, Vanuatu
14 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
13 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
12 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
05 October 2010 | Aore Island, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu
16 September 2010 | On route to Vanuatu
Recent Blog Posts
06 May 2011 | Melbourne

It's Official

It's a sad but good thing, we no longer own GHOST. She is now owned by an architect in Sydney who has plans of sailing the South Pacific once again.

01 February 2011 | Melbourne

Reality bites!!

It's been a while since we updated the blog. Apologies for that but we've been busy fighting off the onslaught of reality, not really wanting to admit it's over! After arriving it was the welcome party in Sydney, followed by a hectic week of moving ALL our personal stuff off GHOST. On a side note, it [...]

05 December 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia

Pictures from the party & sailing around Sydney harbour

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28 November 2010 | Pittwater, NSW, Australia

GHOST for sale!

Well it's sad news but GHOST is now officially up for sale!

28 November 2010 | Sydney Harbour, Australia

Welcome to Sydney GHOST

Well it was a brilliantly sunny day as we set off from Pittwater in GHOST, entering the Sydney heads about lunchtime. It was a pretty emotional sail through this iconic harbour which Brad has envisaged sailing into as long as he's dreamt of sailing home to Australia. Soon we were pulling up to the [...]

Antigua with Kat's parents

12 February 2010 | Curtain Bluff, Antigua
Kat
I hadn't seen my parents since September when we spent a quick one night back in the UK (for Brad to attend his UK citizenship ceremony), so it was with great excitement we met my parents in Antigua at their beautiful hotel, Curtain Bluff. My Uncle David & Aunty Cindy from Canada have treated my parents to a week here so that we could all relax and catch up. The hotel was a brilliantly-run, luxury all-inclusive hotel that was very understanding about us visiting my parents and we have had a real holiday from a holiday enjoying their delicious food, beautiful beach and swimming-pool sized bath! It was a real treat for us and just so amazing to be able to spend time with David and Cindy and my parents - BIG THANK YOU UNCLE DAVID AND AUNTY CINDY!

During the week they were here we had a hire car and explored pretty much the whole of the island including the capital St John, beautiful Half Moon Bay, a couple of visits to Nelson's Dockyard and sun-downers at Shirley Heights to enjoy the amazing view over English and Falmouth Harbours and watch Monserrat spewing volcanic dust up into the atmostphere. Mum and I also made the most of the hotel's facilities and had fun swimming in the pool, sailing a hobby cat, going snorkelling around the bay and paddling around in a kayak. We all enjoyed the delicious food and cocktails - what a luxury not to have to cook!

Unfortunately all good things must of course come to an end and we said a sad farewell to my parents and Aunt & Uncle yesterday - as a strange sort of farewell the wind changed to a south-westerly which meant GHOST was covered in all the dust from Monserrat! You could write your name in the dust on the deck after just a couple of hours.

In advance of starting the next and final phase of the trip we are hoping to shortly complete various works on GHOST - fixing the whisker pole, the gennaker halyard spectacles, the st'b electric winch, and undertaking warranty work to refix some loose portlights, as well as a host of minor jobs. We are also excited to welcome Chris (from the ARC boat Tucanon) who joins us all the way to Australia with lots of toys including kite-surfing kit and his dive gear so as you can guess we are already pretty full on GHOST and are not sure where Jay will sleep when we pick him up in early March in Cartagena, but it looks like we'll have lots of fun in the Pacific.

Link to photos of Antigua:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/bradmcmaster1/AntiguaWithMyParents#
Link to photos of St Maartan:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/bradmcmaster1/StMaartan#
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