Cruising Sails, How we chose between style, material and size of sail. Cross-cut vs. radial sails, materials: Polyester, Cruising Laminate or one of the more modern Dyneema/Polyester blends. and what size is optimum for our Bavaria 40 Ocean centre cockpit
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Day 35 – New Harbour to Recherche Bay – 1 Mar 2017
Woohoo a new day. With more continued good weather, with little wind, no seas and only a 2m swell we decided the correct course for Nashira was to once again hug the coast. After leaving …
Continue readingDay 34 – Port Davey to New Harbour – 28 Feb 2017
We woke early as the wind had swung around to the East which turned Nashira around and set off the anchor alarm. Turns out we were dragging but very slowly as we were set in …
Continue readingDay 1 – Here we go!
After an early start from Middle harbour yacht club in Sydney (4:00am) into a light southerly breeze we made good progress to begin with until the wind picked up to about 15 knots. The forecast …
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