Heading down from Queensland should really not have been such a slog but La Ninã delivered some weird weather across 2022. A southward trip that took us 3-4 days in previous years, took us a month this time. We found ourselves grasping at tiny weather windows that involved 12 hours Click here for full post: […] More
Pancake Creek is an enjoyable destination and a bit of a 1/2 way stop between Burnett Heads and Great Keppel Island. We’ve visited a number of times and sometimes out of necessity, to shelter. (BTW since it’s just across the next headland or around the corner from Gladstone, phone, internet Click here for full post: […] More
Having arrived at Magnetic Island, our northerly prize for this year, we wasted no time in catching a bus from our anchorage at Horseshoe Bay across to Picnic Bay on the Southern side. Upon our return from a tasty pub lunch, the anchorage had a couple of very industrial looking Click here for full post: […] More
Dave on Mercedes is full of witty commentary and said “Everything is broken on your boat; you just don’t know it yet”. This bit of cockpit wisdom is reinforced almost daily because as hard as we try to always be diligent with maintenance and be pre-emptive, stuff just keeps failing. Click here for full post: […] More
Unable to encourage The Bloke to traverse ‘The Narrows’ between Curtis Island and the mainland on previous trips up and down the coast, this route emerged as s handy way to ‘steal a base’ while the wind blew from the wrong direction relative to our desired direction of travel. Perfect. Click here for full post: […] More
The fridge on a boat is always a torment one way or the other. In the first place they are by far and away the biggest consumers of power and seeing as The Bloke is a paid up member of the ‘Power Police’, he is always on the case and Click here for full post: […] More
Well a new offering. I had the pleasure of sampling these magnificent sausage rolls twice; not that I needed a second tasting to decide these are the real deal. Judy has entered the table of fame at number 6 and in doing so has become the highest ranked amaetur. Peter Click here for full post: […] More
Let me say from the outset that I am not proud of the fact that I have created this post. The condition of our anchor winch and the amount of servicing it required does not reflect well on my maintenance of this equipment. My only defence is that I did Click here for full post: […] More
To say I’m a ditherer wouldn’t be overstating things. Sewing a boom tent has been far too long on the project list. In fact the first lot of fabric purchased for that purpose ended up as suncovers for our gerry cans that we took on our trip to New Caledonia Click here for full post: […] More
Marilyn was our dinghy/tender and came to be ours with quite a story attached. She had originally been owned by our sailing mentors. They had become separated from her during a storm whilst on anchor. Searches to locate the tender were unsuccessful, and an insurance claim made. Roll on 12 Click here for full post: […] More
We’re not the only cruisers who’ve chosen an extended stay at Great Keppel Island. There is much to enjoy. Little did the 1970’s marketing slogan inventors know that people would continue to ‘Get Wrecked at GKI’ long after the resort became insolvent and itself wrecked. The weather dictates where one Click here for full post: […] More
From the outset, 2020 was looking to be a busy year. It looked like this: Complete an extended stay with family in Perth, return to the boat in Queensland and give Zofia a major service in preparation for another off-shore trip to New Caledonia in May (which we’d already twice Click here for full post: […] More