L'Eau Commotion Westabout
An (other) attempt to sail non stop Westabout around the world
| Vessel Name: | L'Eau Commotion |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Northshore 38 |
| Hailing Port: | Brisbane Australia |
| Crew: | Bill Hatfield |
25 February 2020 | Scarborough Marina, Brisbane
21 February 2020
21 February 2020 | 59 Miles To Go
20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia
19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 304 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
18 February 2020 | 328 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
17 February 2020 | 423 Miles To Go
16 February 2020 | 505 Miles East Of The Gold Coast
15 February 2020 | 617 Miles To Go
14 February 2020 | 755 Miles To Go
13 February 2020 | 888 Miles To The Gold Coast
12 February 2020 | 1032 Miles To The Gold Coast
11 February 2020 | 580 Miles North Of The Waikato
11 February 2020 | 1167 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1300 Miles To Home
10 February 2020 | 1309 Miles To The Gold Coast
09 February 2020 | 1460 Miles To The Gold Coast Seaway
Recent Blog Posts
20 February 2020 | 114 Miles East Of Australia
ETA Looking Likely
Day 258 6am Friday 21st February 2020
19 February 2020 | 220 Miles East Of Gold Coast Seaway
Amended ETA
Day 257 6am Thursday 20th February 2020
19 February 2020 | 262 Miles To Gold Coast Seaway
Amended ETA
Day 256 10:30pm Wednesday 19th February 2020 ( UTC+10 )
Quiet Sailing
10 June 2019 | 15 Miles East of Smoky Cape
Day 3 8pm Monday 10th June 2019
The wind died away completely during the night so in the small hours I furled the jib and put a preventer line on the boom and woke to a perfect glassy calm with absolutely no wind at all. I hope you can see it in the photo - thereâs not the slightest breath of air about and not a ripple on the water. Soon after however a gentle NW air came in around four knots and with the current of 1 knot were back on course making nearly 4 knots. To keep the speed and to counter an expected wind change to WSW we headed a little inshore and right on time the wind has come from North to Northwest. Iâll keep my course of South West for a few more hours as there's quite a few large ships about and I may just get inside of them for the rest of the night. I must add that as I looked out to the clearly defined mountains behind Coff's Harbour and over the gentle ripples on the surface a moment of shear joy in such beauty bought a tear to my eye with the thought I will only have ten or twenty more years to enjoy such pleasures. Reality set in and I enjoyed breakfast.
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The wind died away completely during the night so in the small hours I furled the jib and put a preventer line on the boom and woke to a perfect glassy calm with absolutely no wind at all. I hope you can see it in the photo - thereâs not the slightest breath of air about and not a ripple on the water. Soon after however a gentle NW air came in around four knots and with the current of 1 knot were back on course making nearly 4 knots. To keep the speed and to counter an expected wind change to WSW we headed a little inshore and right on time the wind has come from North to Northwest. Iâll keep my course of South West for a few more hours as there's quite a few large ships about and I may just get inside of them for the rest of the night. I must add that as I looked out to the clearly defined mountains behind Coff's Harbour and over the gentle ripples on the surface a moment of shear joy in such beauty bought a tear to my eye with the thought I will only have ten or twenty more years to enjoy such pleasures. Reality set in and I enjoyed breakfast.
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