S/V Bluebottle

22 March 2018 | Barrenjoey head, Pittwater NSW
Sydney - Hobart voyage begins
12 March 2018
Sea voyage, again!
15 January 2018
Cutting into the fabric
15 January 2018
Afloat but not moving
17 May 2017 | Hobart, Tasmania
I bought another boat!!
07 April 2016
I bought a boat!
06 March 2016
Bluebottle Finds A New Owner
17 March 2015 | Hobart
Bluebottle is For Sale, for sail ...
19 December 2013
To Keep, or Not To Keep, that is the Question
19 December 2013
Dead Duck Dramatically Discovered
16 September 2013 | Kings Pier Marina, Hobart
Living aboard, post-desert
25 May 2013
Older posts have photos added
25 May 2013
Dry Land Plus Rain
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 3
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 2
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 1.1
24 May 2013
Dry Land, Red Earth 1
06 December 2012
Off to another ocean
11 September 2012
We Hauled.
05 August 2012
Bruny Is. Easter Cruise: Swans in the Duck Pond

Cutting into the fabric

15 January 2018
Here is a photo of the fore-cabin interior, where I have been obliged to cut and remove part of the lining, to allow me to inspect the damage, and to allow air in to dry out the saturated timber.

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Vessel Name: BLUEBOTTLE (ex-Aura)
Vessel Make/Model: Lidgard 49' steel ketch
Hailing Port: Hobart
Crew: Adrienne Godsmark and Joe Blake
About:
We have completed our trans-Pacific voyage - from Panama to Hobart via Ecuador, Mexico, French Polynesia, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and Bundaberg, and are now pausing before resuming land life. [...]
Extra:
When the port authorities here were approached to renew our Panamanian boat registration, they said "You can't call your boat Aura - that's taken" so we decided to call her Bluebottle! If you know the Goons, you know of Bluebottle, that little twit! He was always getting into trouble with his thin [...]

BLUEBOTTLE (ex-Aura)

Who: Adrienne Godsmark and Joe Blake
Port: Hobart

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