It was around 2am waning gibbous moonlit night, and we were about to have our first gear failure of the trip.
Katie was asleep down below, and I was up on deck taking in an episode of Game of Thrones (thanks Abe). The boat was performing fairly well, however the conditions left something to be desired. We were near Smokey Cape (around 60km north of Port Macquarie), an area where the southbound east australian coastal current...
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Friday, 26 April 2013
I was having a fight with a woman and then I could hear this dull thudding and vibrating within me, almost like an earthquake shaking the ground and the buildings, the thudding was becoming louder and closer. What is that?
I woke up, something was hitting the hull of the boat. It was 4:45am and still dark. I lay in bed wondering where it was coming from. I got up and...
Monday, 22 April 2013
On Saturday, the heavens opened, they unleashed torrents of rain, for 12 hours. Cabin fever set in, a full rocky road easter egg the size of my head was consumed and sugar highs and lows shortly followed behind. It was time for the making of tracks. Hanging out in our backyard was not the aim of the game and these gale force winds were going to stop us no more!
Sunday...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Elizabeth Jane II has embarked on several long passages, having been berthed in New Jersey in 1980 and cruising across the Pacific to Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand, before calling Port Adelaide her new home (under the vessel name 'Willow I'). And these are the voyages that we know of.
Under our command, she completed 20 months at sea, cruising the Australian...
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