The Cure for Work

Vessel Name: Antidote
Vessel Make/Model: Seawind 1160 Catamaran
Hailing Port: Mooloolaba
Crew: Greg and Annette Irvine
About:
Greg and Annette are both semi retired pharmacists and are looking forward to cruising the Queensland coast. Greg sailed an off the beach A class cat many years ago and now enjoys the dry comfort of flat sailing. [...]
12 December 2008 | Mooloolaba
25 November 2008 | Bundaberg
11 November 2008
04 November 2008
01 November 2008
22 October 2008 | Magnetic Is
11 October 2008
30 September 2008 | Palm Island Group
30 September 2008 | Breakwater Marina Townsville
23 September 2008 | FNQ
15 September 2008 | The 'Upstart Hilton' on Cape Upstart
11 September 2008 | Bowen
06 September 2008 | Woodwark Bay
04 September 2008 | Hook Is. Whitsundays
03 September 2008 | Shaw Island
29 August 2008 | Scawfell Island
21 August 2008 | mackay
15 August 2008 | Mackay Marina
05 August 2008 | Kepple Bay Marina
Recent Blog Posts
12 December 2008 | Mooloolaba

Home at Last

Wednesday morning saw us up early with the smell of home in the air and the excitement was present in both of us to finally be nearing home. At 0600 we left the Bundaberg marina and shortly after we were doing 8 knots under full sail in a 10-15 knot breeze.

25 November 2008 | Bundaberg

The final leg home

Six days sailing to go and we'll be home, and today we've just completed the third day of those six. Yep, Yeppoon to The Narrows, The Narrows to Pancake Creek, and today Pancake Creek to Bundaberg. Tomorrow we go to Big Woody Is (Near Kingfisher Bay Resort), then Wednesday on to Inskip Point, then [...]

23 November 2008

Sun, wind, spinnakers, and storms

Our friends, Garry and Liz Stewart from Perth, arrived Saturday afternoon and the weather looked perfect for our southbound trip to Yeppoon, so we departed Mackay early on Sunday morning for our first stop-over at Digby Is. Tony Patch and the crew on "Last Resort" joined us in this beautiful anchorage [...]

11 November 2008

Spinaker runs to the south

After Mario and Carmel (friends from back home) boarded at Hamilton Island, we set off for Shaw Is. and anchored in Billbob Bay for the night. After sundowners on the beach with the other cruisers in the bay, we headed back for a great BBQ tea and long catch-up chat.

04 November 2008

Cruisin' the Whitsundays

The next morning I cleaned the other hull and then set sail for Macona Inlet. WOW! A 15knot breeze over the beam and we sat on 9.5-10.5 knots (Max 12 knots) for most of the trip. It's amazing what a clean bottom can do!

01 November 2008

A trip to remember

With the SE winds dropping we topped up the water tanks at Nelly Bay at and made the bold move to head for Airlie. The forecast on Monday was "E/NE winds 10/15 knots with afternoon seabreezes 15/20 knots inshore. Seas to1.4 m" Our heading for most of the day was SE so we went for it. It was a reasonable [...]

First week down

15 August 2008 | Mackay Marina
Greg
Our first night was in Svensons Bay (Great Kepple Is.) after a midday start from Yeppoon (refuelling took longer than expected)Soon after leaving GKI we ran out of Telstra 3G and it was not available again until the night before reaching Mackay,. so no blog entries. We stayed the next 3 nights in Pearl bay, a really beautiful spot, and met quite a lot of other north bound couples over sundowners on the beach. The weather improved so we were off for Marble Is, which didn't live up to it's reputation for being a good SE/SW anchorage. The was our worst night so far with a swell rocking us from the side all night. We didn't even think of staying another night here and left early for Curlew Is for one night before going to Mackay. Unfortunately, Curlew was twice as bad as Marble for strong tide opposing strong wind and not much sleep this night either. Thursday 5AM I got the BOM weather report on the laptop which said 10-15 Knot winds SE on slight seas so we were off early again. An hour into the trip saw 18-24 knot winds with a 1.5-2m sea from our port quarter!!! Grrr! We decided to head more across the wind and waves on a reach (top speed 11.8kn) with a double reefed main and then travelled north only a few miles off shore past Hay Point Coal loading terminal and into Mackay Boat Harbour. Annette handled the rough bits well with no mal de mer. (She had her eyes closed most of the way so as not to see the following sea swell.. but wants to keep going north)
This photo was taken at Marble Is
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