Passion for Cruising
| Vessel Name: | Truest Passion |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Seawind 1160 Catamaran |
| Hailing Port: | Southport |
| Crew: | Stuart Simpson & Nanette Black |
18 May 2012 | Mooloolaba
Good News-Bad News
Hello to all our yachtie friends, it is so long again since I have posted a blog, but the moment has at last arrived that I can talk to you all.
02 November 2011 | Mooloolaba Marina
Home!!
The last lap, so we left Garry’s Anchorage at 5.50am to catch the incoming tide to cross the bar. No wind at all. We started down the “mad mile” towards the bar crossing – not for the faint hearted today, it was like a washing machine, however the largest wave we saw was about 3 metres. Finally [...]
30 October 2011 | Sandy Straits
Yankee Jack Creek
Off yet again at 5.45 am, I was almost sleepwalking as the skipper did his usual, go, go, now.........
29 October 2011 | Bundaberg
Nearly Home
We had a lovely quiet day in the creek, we even played cards and Scrabble, beaten again!!!
27 October 2011 | Pancake Creek
Dawn Start
Up at 4.30am [we must be mad]! To get to Pancake Creek before tomorrow, when a S Easter is forecast, means a very long haul today. We will pass Cape Capricorn at about 10am before sailing down the outside of Curtis Island and Gladstone etc.
26 October 2011 | Great Keppel Island
Another Ripper!!
Another day, this time up at 5am and underway at 5.40am. The water is like oil, not a breath of wind. The clouds are quite heavy at present, but it is very early yet.
Landfall Gove
Late afternnoon a pod of several hundred pilot whales appeared and took over half an hour for them to pass in two's three's and four's, darting between the hulls and riding our bow waves. Even rolling onto their sides to look at us. Amazing and thrilling to see so many. A moonlit night in 12-15 knots had us skimming along at 7 knots. Stuart slept like a log after dinner until taking watch from midnight to 4.30am. At 01.19.19 we crossed into the Northern Territory. Nanette still found it hard to sleep with the motion and noise. Dawn broke at 6.30 about an hour after moonset. 30 Miles to go!
We did the 320 mile crossing in 47 hours - not too bad. Into Gove around the huge bauxite plant and anchored in front of Gove Yacht Club just after lunch. Shower and shave then dinghy into the club for a well earned cold beer and fish and chips.
Great to sleep in a quiet non-moving bunk - out like a light for 12 hours blissful sleep.
