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 [...]

Expensive Sicily

23 June 2008
Brad
Question: where in the Med would you expect to find the most expensive marina that offers the least facilities in return for your hard earned mulha? (well at least in our experience and that includes the Hamble river and Palma!).

Answer: it is a little back water town on the western coast of Sicily, Marsala - the first port of call yachts making passage from Sardinia to Sicily and beyond.

74 euros a night for a marina that barely has enough depth to receive us, port-a-cabin for ablutions and a couple of plastic chairs and a picnic table for a bar.

Now either we are missing something by way of the underlying charm that this place exudes (mind you the marina is half empty), or these Sicilians are the kings of the low cost model and know they can charge it...OR perhaps there is a serious "protection" tax included and collected on our behalf and handed to the local Mafia!! We haven't worked it out yet but we are pursing the answers while downing beers in a local and trying to beat the heat by sitting as still as possible. Clearly one Aussie has been away from home too long!!

So we left Cagliari by mid morning on the 22nd and set a course for Sicily. The predominant winds in this part of the Med are from the northwest. But at the risk of sounding like a broken record, 'guess where our fair breeze was coming from?'... the south east of course and on the nose AGAIN, so we motored 90% of the 150miles passage. Winds died overnight which provide a nice comfortable platform from which to finish nearly finish the third season of Lost!

Another hot calm day today as we came into Marsala, moored up, hosed the deck and made for the internet caf� and cold beers.

A couple of extra beers are on the table tonight though due to our, or I should say Kat's, slight win over the marina. On the news that the nights mooring was going to cost 74 euros, she protested, played cute, may have even blown a kiss for all I know but she got us a discount, hence we paid only 50!!!
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