Cruising Bass Strait and Tasmania
| Vessel Name: | Bulletproof |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Noelex 30 |
| Hailing Port: | Blairgowrie Vic, Australia |
18 March 2012
Cruising Bass Strait and Tasmania: voyage complete
after crossing Bass Strait twice and circumnavigating Tasmania, a journey totalling over 1400 nautical miles, Bulletproof is home without a single scratch or breakage.
17 March 2012
Apollo Bay
what a great sail across bass strait - 20 knot westerly, genoa and full main powering boat along at 8-10 knots.
17 March 2012
setting sail across Bass Strait - sunrise over Cape Wickham, King Island
goodbye Tasmanian waters - memories of a lifetime...
16 March 2012
albatross bidding us farewell at New Year Island
goodbye to all the albatross that have flown with us and kept us company for each sail of the trip - truly artists of the air
16 March 2012
anchorage at New Year Island at north end of King Island
short 3 hr sail to top of king for the night, our jumping off point for the 57nm crossing of Bass Strait to Apollo Bay and back into Victorian waters. A fairly open anchorage but surprisingly well protected from the swell. Three Fishing boats were there and having made friends with nearly the entire king island fleet over the last few days we were given plenty of help as to where to drop anchor.
15 March 2012
The Restaurant With No Food, King Island
spent day checking out Currie - great little place, redeeming King Island as a place of appeal. Had lunch at the restaurant with no food which was really cool. Sited right on the harbour, it is a fully set restaurant decorated in a maritime theme with great artistic talent. You just wander in with your [...]
Apollo Bay
Dale particularly enjoyed the hour he spent clinging to the nearly submerged leeward gunwhale in the middle of bass strait discovering all the combinations and permutations of incorrect ways of leading and tying the genoa sheet. I didnt realise there were so many.
In reality it was probably too windy to use the genoa but after such a big effort it didn't seem quite right to say nah let's not worry about it now. Unfortunately my arms paid the price for this, now about 2 inches longer from trying to hang on to the tiller the whole way, the power in the boat like a bolting horse.
Apollo bay - fantastic sheltered harbour. Couple of pints of Guinness for st paddys day.
One hop to go.
