Where is SV Merakai

Vessel Name: Merakai
Vessel Make/Model: Adams 15.2
Hailing Port: Townsville, QLD, Australia
Crew: Rick and Bette Willis
About: Home and Away
02 June 2020 | Magnetic Island Marina
01 June 2020 | Hinchenbrook Channel
31 May 2020 | Mourilan Harbour
26 May 2020 | Low Isles
25 May 2020 | East Hope Island
24 May 2020 | Cape Bedford
21 May 2020 | Cape Flattery
19 May 2020 | Ninian Bay, just south Cape Melville
11 May 2020 | Stokes Bay, Stanley Island, Flinders Group, Princess Charlotte Bay
08 May 2020 | Portland Road Anchorage
30 April 2020 | Margaret Bay, Cape Grenville
27 April 2020 | Albany Island, Torres Strait
22 April 2020 | Horn Island, Torres Strait
Recent Blog Posts
02 June 2020 | Magnetic Island Marina

The End!! (for now) Magnetic Island Marina

01 June 2020 | Hinchenbrook Channel

Hinchenbrook Channel

31 May 2020 | Mourilan Harbour

Mourilan Harbour

Two challenge day! Damar Bay to Lingeh Bay, Flores

29 October 2019 | Budding entrepreneurs, Lingeh Bay, Flores
Bette Willis
Underway by 6:30, following our entry track to navigate past reefs and out of the fjord-like Damar Bay. Only saw one lone fisher setting nets on our way out of the fjord.


Never-ending beaches and mountains as we sail along the north coast of Flores.

Challenge #1: By mid morning we were quite a way off the coast when a fisher started waving his arms and yelling as we came into the vicinity of his boat. As we drew nearer, we realised that he had an enormous net - at least 0.5 nm long stretched between his boat and another boat - not even visible at this point in the distance. Rick threw the engine into neutral, gybed the headsail and headed back the way we came. We went around the net, but had to go some distance out of our way.

Challenge #2: As we motored in to the anchorage, we went behind a squid boat to avoid its anchor rope, only to discover that it had a subsurface stern anchor rope that was attached to a grid of ropes along the shore. Rick again slammed into neutral and dropped the anchor to avoid dragging the squid boat and a maze of ropes onto the shore. A lad from the squid boat paddled over and he and Rick jumped in the water and stood on the stern rope, which was under Merakai between the keel and the rudder stock. Rick managed to loop one of our mooring lines under the stern rope and I hauled it up to the surface and held it there until we cleared it, while Rick pulled up the anchor and slowly motored forward. Somewhat shaken, we motored around the front of the squid boat and anchored some distance away.


The offending squid boat and buoys marking a grid of ropes


The squid boat lad paddled over and we all had drinks and bikkies.


Then Raj, an entrepreneur in the making, and 2 companions paddled over looking for books - Rick showing them they can write their own stories with the pens and notepads we gave them. Not sure they're convinced!


Lovely sunset to end a long day!
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