Maryborough to Bundaberg

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Well this is it. We have made it safely to our furthest point north for this trip. We will now be making preparations for the trip home!!!!

We were up at 10 past 4 yesterday morning and leaving the berth at 4.40 to make our way back down the Mary River on the incoming tide. It was a three hour trip out into the Great Sandy Strait. We motored sailed nearly all the way covering 71nm. It was hot and sunny and for a good part we had little or no wind at all. When it came it was from the north east again – just the way we were heading!

Mooloolaba to Maryborough

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It was 10.20p.m. when we left our berth in Mooloolaba saying good-bye to our neighbours who untied our mooring lines, and we motored out through the entrance and into a rather lumpy sea. By 10.50 we had the sails up and proceeded up the coast. The funny thing was we had timed our trip to arrive at the bar at a certain time the next morning, but found with the 18 – 20kt breeze we were sailing too fast so put two reefs in the main sail [took it down reducing the sail area by about half] and only had half the jib out, and we were still doing 7kts. Alex took first watch and I stayed up with him. He eventually went down for a sleep about 1.30a.m. as we wanted him bright eyed for the bar crossing. David then Helen were doing the next two watches but I did not wake them as they had not been feeling too well so I stayed up till about 3.45am when Helen came up to take over. It was a lovely nights sail with a full moon, and it’s funny how you get into the rhythm of the ocean even when it is a bit lumpy.

Brisbane - Moolooaba

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Well I can see Christmas is upon us once again as some of the shops in Brisbane are starting to put their trees and decorations up, and I am so far behind with it this year that I can see it passing before I have caught up. Me who never misses putting up a tree and doing something festive, is going to completely miss out this year. But in saying that I would not change this for all the world.