November 8, 2025
With a 4:30pm departure we left in calm conditions and other than large fishing boats returning and rolling us around it was a mellow ease into the passage. The chicken we picked up was devoured and shortly thereafter Vicki and Jack headed down to rest. I enjoyed the nice conditions (the reason we are doing a night passage is to…
November 6, 2025
First, I am not a fan of Cabo. Too loud. Too many jetskis. Too rolly. But it is a great place rest up, provision, get fuel, and wait for a weather window to enter the Sea of Cortez. We checked all of those boxes, starting with lunch followed by getting fuel. Fuel transferred into the main tanks, Jack and I…
October 8, 2024
A rainy start was perked up with visiting a friend’s son who is working in Sydney before dashing off to the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney and closing out the day by climbing the Sydney Harbour Bridge
October 7, 2024
A nice breakfast before a not too far walk the UTS campus, followed up with a couple of buses rides out to Middle Head Battery for some exploring and beach time.
October 5, 2024
Bus to Watsons Bay, beach time at Lady Bay beach, exploring South head, checking out The Gap, lunch at Doyles, and a ferry back to Sydney
October 4, 2024
Well let’s call it day 1.5 since I arrived late afternoon Thursday, but this was my first full day… Walking around, visiting the National Maritime museum, and a musical at the Sydney Opera House
October 1, 2024
It was just a few hours down to the next spot. We left early thinking the current would be in our favor. Whether it was the 18 knots of wind on the nose or our inability to figure out the tide, the result was the same – a slow trip south to Wave Break island. We dropped the anchor in…
September 30, 2024
After the strong winds and rain finally passed us, it was time to move. Back around the corner, where we had problems anchoring, past the “yacht club”, and on down the Canaipa channel. It was an interesting section with lots of homes nearly each having a boat on a mooring ball. A bit further south it must have been the…
September 29, 2024
Calculations were made, questions were asked, and the result was we needed water and the best place was from a drinking fountain just outside the ferry terminal. So early in the morning, with jerry cans in hand Carl and I headed to shore to start the process. It actually went smoothly and we received our arm work out carrying the…
September 17, 2024
The morning forecast gave us disappointing news, there was no longer a reliable forecast that looked good for us to depart. Major bummer after all of the hard work yesterday. It was a cloudy day, so we had to be on limited power use, a great reason to spend the morning reading. After lunch everyone was ready to get some…
September 12, 2024
There was heavy rain off and on throughout the night and we woke to a very humid, damp space. I got to cleaning the windows and solar panels. Carl dried off the inside of the windows and we settled in to wait for hopefully clearing skies. By ten it was looking pretty good, so I grabbed a paddle board and…
September 11, 2024
We had two other monohulls in the anchorage with us. We wanted to say hi but first, off to explore the sandspit on the island we anchored behind. It was a pretty spot that gave us a good view of the ocean on the other side – all of us glad we were not out today in big rolling seas…