Adventure Blog

Day 5 – Making our way to Sydney!! This is it,  the final run to Sydney. We motored out into Two-Fold Bay at Eden and headed North.   Large pods of Dolphin escorted us out and …

Well the wind did come!  a humdinger of a SW,  Just after Evan fixed the alternator brushes. Leaving the East coast between the Bay of Fires and Eddystone Point we headed North-East entering Banks Strait …

Hello! I am going to update our trip home as often as I can,  reception permitting. We are kind of aiming to be in Sydney by Saturday if all goes to plan. (We know how …

We stayed overnight at Kettering marina and checked in the morning,  No leaking, we are still dry!  Good sign. Evan entered us in the Cygnet regatta which means today we will be racing from Kettering …

Wow,  Looking back on this week it has been a blur.  Nashira was lifted onto the hard stand on the 1st of March with Rod of RM Marine assigning Cameron as our shipwright to assist …

Today we are going to navigate the Marion Narrows and Denison Canal with our emergency tiler. Up at 4:00am we left Chinaman’s Bay for Marion Narrows.    High tide (Hobart) is about 4:20am so traversing the …

Day 27 – Well plans change don’t they? Leaving Schouten Passage (Moreys Bay) by 6am is great because it is light enough to see the rock formations of Schouten as we sail past even though …

Gosh today really feels like holidays.  The temperature is warm, supposed to get up to 26 today, The sun is out and the water is inviting.  This morning Evan got the outboard motor working again …

The SW wind started about 11pm,  In bed by 8pm meant it felt like we have slept for ages already.  That didn’t deter us, Back to sleep until the anchor alarm went off at 4am.   …