We made it to Babel Island! Woohoo!!!!! When we arrived honestly all we had on our mind was eat and sleep, but I will get to that soon. Day 8 Leaving Eden was easy, calm …
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Category: Tassi Travel 2017
Day 7 – Leaving Eden – Bass Strait and Babel Island here we come
Leaving Eden for Babel Island, Marine Rescue Eden have been wonderful
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Ahoy all, we have our weather window! Nashira will be setting sail across Bass Strait tomorrow morning at 5am. A rather civilised time I think. This will get us to Babel Island at the Flinder …
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Quiet day in Eden, learned to use barge boards, moved to East Boyd bay to hide from Southerly wind change. Still waiting for weather window to sail to Tasmania.
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We made it! The weather gods were kind indeed as it was a beautiful day with a lovely SSE breeze which allowed us to motor part of the way and motor sail all the way …
Continue readingDay 3 – Broulee Bay
Good Evening from Broulee Bay (pronounced Brow-lee not Brulee as in cream brulee). We left Long Beach at Jervis bay by 5:30am. Rudely awoken by our anchor alarm going off at 4:30 we took advantage …
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I’m going to start a little backwards, it is the end of day 2 and right this moment it is 11:15pm, Evan called me upstairs to look at the stars. Oh my goodness! I am …
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 …
Continue readingThe day before we leave
We leave tomorrow! Weather permitting of course. Today is Crazy! Actually everyday since last Friday has been crazy. Evan has been at the marina now changing engine oil, re rigging spinnaker pole sheets, …
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