tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35020362260388984322024-03-05T23:42:52.226-08:00Easy Tiger - Sailing Around Australia Adventures blogEasytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-54851306637038291642017-11-02T20:54:00.001-07:002017-11-02T20:54:46.209-07:00Sailing New Caledonia - Peaks and Troughs<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52400016784668px; text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Peaks and Troughs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As our New Caledonia adventures draw to a close, I was wondering how best to describe our range of experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Those who have looked at our Easy Tiger Sailing around Australia blog site will see that our track over the past three months looks like a blob of Spaghetti dobbed on the southwest corner of New Caledonia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">While it doesn’t look like we have ventured very far, I must say that this is because the huge lagoon formed by the 2<sup>nd</sup> largest barrier reef in the world is so full of life, colour and beauty that we just simply haven’t had time to venture too far out of this wonderland.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There are many islands in this lagoon. Most are small, flat and have a few metres of beach. So going for a long walk involves two or three laps around the island. The appeal of these small islands is that they all have extensive reefs surrounding them, that are truly beautiful to snorkel and dive in and around.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The bigger islands generally consist of steep hills. These are mostly topped with either a navigational light or a lighthouse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Exploring these “peaks and troughs” of this place has been a delight. By that I mean that we have hiked to the top of a few of the step hills and we have snorkel dived the reefs of the islands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our first venture up to a peak, was during the time we were anchored in bay Carenage at the end of the Bay de Prony. After a wild dinghy ride down the bay, we trekked to Prony village. Luckily we started with the easiest trek as our boat legs hadn’t done much walking for a few months and were certainly burning after scaling the long hill.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span><span lang="EN-US">The second hike up a hill was at the Isle Casy. We should have been lead on that adventure by the islands' sole inhabitant, a dog called Moose, but it seemed he was having a day off.</span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffeedd;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 1px 1px 5px; color: #333333; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US">A visit to Isle Mato when it was too windy to snorkel the reef there saw us tackle the very steep climb to the summit. I say it was a climb because we were on all fours at times getting up as well as coming down. Except for when Amanda saw a snake. Then there were no limbs at all touching the ground for a second or two.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then when we were in Anse MAjic, some one suggested we go up to the Cape Ndua lighthouse and take in the view. While not as steep as isle Mato, it was considerably further, along the very red dirt tracks. The view from up there was absolutely spectacular. The bluest of ocean, dotted with dark green islands and light green submerged reef systems with a backdrop of dark red hillsides made every angle postcard material.<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffeedd;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 1px 1px 5px; color: #333333; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US">During our second visit to Isle de Pins, we tackled the walk to Pic Nga. That one had the steep sections like Isle MAto and was even further than The Cape Ndua Lighthouse “stroll”. We were all huffing and puffing and doubting we would make it to the top before we reached a quarter of the way up.<span style="color: #ffeedd;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #ffeedd;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 1px 1px 5px; background-color: white; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039) 1px 1px 5px; color: #333333; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fortunately we all made it </span>to the top albeit breathlessly. That didn’t help much because the views from Pic Nga over Kuto bay were breathtaking. A cruise ship in the bay, the fast ferry at the dock and our catamarans sitting in the turquoise water followed by the many pine trees standing tall on the rolling hills makes a vista worth the tired legs, blisters and sore joints.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On the other end of the altitude scale has been the snorkeling. Highlights of this activity include the coral around the drop offs and chasms at Gadji, the numerous colourful clown fish (or nemos) at Isle Uaa, the turtles and other creatures in abundance in the sanctuary of Signal Island and the big fish lazing under our boats at Amedee. <span style="color: #ffeedd;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There may not have been a circumnavigation of the main island Grand Terre. There wasn’t much time spent in the capital in Noumea and the East Coast remains unvisited by us, but what we have done is explore the lagoon area top to bottom.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">All of us that have been here agree that it will remain on our bucket list to return to New Caledonia hopefully in a couple of years. Perhaps then we may venture further, but we all say that would need an extended visa. Till then we know that got the most out of our visits to the peaks and troughs of New Caledonia’s lagoon.</span></div>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-22004170753966343322017-11-02T20:38:00.001-07:002017-11-02T20:38:10.286-07:00Sailing New Caledonia; Gorgeous Gadji<span style="background-color: #441500; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52400016784668px;">7th August 2017</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52400016784668px;" /><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52400016784668px;" /><span style="background-color: #441500; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52400016784668px;">Gadji, Isle De Pins New Caledonia</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.52400016784668px;" /><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">6<sup>th</sup> August 2017 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Gorgeous Gadji<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Over the 4 years we have been sailing aboard Easy Tiger, we are often about the best place we have been.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Of course there are many variables that dictate how we rate the many places we have been. For instance, if the weather didn’t suit, or the anchorage was crowded, or we were unable to stay long enough to get the feel of a place are factors that may influence our “rating” opposed to others who may have been there at the perfect time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There are a few spots though that are really nice in spite of the weather conditions and where it doesn’t matter how many other boats are there. Gadji, at the northeast end of Ilse of Pines in New Caledonia, would be one of these.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The two anchorages of Gadji are simply gorgeous. One is the outer, where you don’t have to go across the reef, the other is the inner anchorage where you enter at high tide into a huge pool of crystal water that ranges from only a metre to around 3 metres deep. This clarity of the water with it’s bright blue tinge gives you the impression that you are anchoring in a swimming pool.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The inner anchorage is surrounded by islands. These islands create a pond like area with a diameter of maybe three or four hundred metres. Most of these islands range in size from a suburban front yard to a few hectares on the largest. Many are just large volcanic rocks with that have been undercut over years by the seawater eating away underneath, creating a “mushroom” shape. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Curiously, most of these islands, big and small, have dense bush growing out the top. How such a variety of shrubs, bushes and even tall straight pine trees exist on these lumps of rock is amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the water, there are many “clumps” of coral. In the “swimming pool” inside anchorage there are spots of branch like coral that ranges in colour from bright blue to deep purple. Then in the passes between the islands there is fawn coloured brain coral, and lime green fuzzy coral. On the ocean side of the passes between the islands there is plate coral. This seems to grow laterally and as flat as a plate giving great opportunities to the fish to find protection underneath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The fish life around these corals is spectacular. From small bright green or electric blue damsel fish, various clown fish (nemos) to yellow and black striped angel fish. Added to this are bright green or maroon coloured parrot fish, plus turtles and sting rays all together are an absolute delight to watch while floating among them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Perhaps one of the best bits about Gadji is that you can really only get here by boat. There is no accommodation here, no resort, no swim up bar. The entry and exit points are pretty shallow, so there are no big boats carrying hundreds of people, its just us cruising sailors and couple of local dive boats that get to enjoy it in all it’s glory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Several of the larger islands have small beaches. So the norm for us is to have a bonfire on one of these beaches every other night, where all the sailors get together to swap stories. Inevitably the conversation seems to come around to how gorgeous Gadji is.<span style="color: #ffeedd;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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A group of people gathered at the Gold Coast in Australia with the common aim of setting off on a sailing adventure to New Caledonia and Vanuatu. They had been gathered together by one man who had sailed this path quite a few times before, and wanted to share his knowledge and love of the South Pacific with others.</div>
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In the middle of May 2017, 40 people had assembled aboard their various vessels. Quite like all the ingredients put together to make a really good fruit salad.</div>
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While these folk all had one thing in common (they were looking for an overseas sailing adventure), that is pretty much where the common thread ended and the differences began.</div>
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The first thing that set the apples apart from the banana's was the group itself. There was the "senior" brigade (people in their seventies) and then a mixture of age groups right down to gen y's in their 20's.</div>
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Into this rally salad there were passionfruit who had a wealth of sailing experience including crossing the South Pacific several times, to the pineapples for whom this would be their first time more than a few miles from the coast of Australia.</div>
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The peaches and grapes were defined by the various types of vessels that the people participating in the rally were preparing to sail the 800nm journey. There were 10 catamarans, 9 yachts (monohulls) and a trimaran.</div>
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Probably the greatest mix of all, was the differing backgrounds of the fruits. From Farmers to Engineers, Teachers to Computer Programmers, Business Owners to Retired Public Servants, this group is a huge cross section of the general population. </div>
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The peaches and grapes were defined by the various types of vessels that the people participating in the rally were preparing to sail the 800nm journey. There were 10 catamarans, 9 yachts (monohulls) and a trimaran.</div>
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After five, six or in some cases seven days at sea, the rally salad was thoroughly mixed together by the sense of achievement, having arrived in Noumea. Nowhere was this more evident than at the "arrival party" where the whole rally salad was served up, with the help of a French rock n roll band who cranked their amps right up as forty or so sailors with a huge sense of achievement let their hair right down.<br />
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Since then the salad has got off in many different pieces. Some headed north to explore, others went south to see what they could see. But each time their paths cross, we can hear or see the genuine camaraderie between apples, passion fruit, bananas and strawberries. Wether its helping out with a technical boat problem, recommending a marvellous anchorage or even just bragging about seeing a whale, the feeling of belonging to the group is evident.<br />
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It was also very apparent when 8 boats and their crews came together, (most went out of their way), to help celebrate Leanne's birthday.<br />
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Like the master chef's say, it's is the blend and the mixing of the distinct flavours the make this salad work and for that my friends I am going to give you a 10.<br />
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-23289466663947641022017-10-28T03:33:00.000-07:002017-10-28T03:34:37.630-07:00Sailing around New Caledonia - Follow that boat<br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Follow that Boat.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Australia seems so far from anywhere. When you look at the map, i</span>t is 800 or so nautical miles to get to New Caledonia which is one of the closest "foreign" countries. I guess that’s why it seems such a great feat to sail there. I suppose, it’s no problem or hardly a challenge for Europeans, as different countries are so much closer, but for us it seemed quite daunting.To be lead by a fella that has done it eight or nine times before made it a lot less daunting, so we decided to include our boat in a “rally” of sailing boats. </div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By the time the morning of departure came around, all the suggestion, discussion, debating, decision making, planning, organizing, financing, provisioning, learning, talking, shouting, frustration, effort and time that had gone into deciding to go, getting ready and preparation the down under go east rally brought us to the 23rd May 2017. Departure day.<o:p></o:p></span> Were we ready? What had we forgotten? What could go wrong? How would we physically stand up to the task? All these and many more questions raced around in my head for most of the night before so when the time came I was actually already tired. </div>
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At 6.00am there was plenty of nervous energy on board Easy Tiger as the crew milled around getting breakfast. For Leanne and I it was the culmination of our plans and dreams to go coupled with the anticipation of the 800nm passage that lay ahead, for our son Luke it was the excitement of showing his parents his skills and abilities and for Ian Sulley and Susan Rousalen it was just plain excitement. As Sue said "they didn't know what they didn't know, so didn't know what to expect".</div>
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At 6.15am I did a final tour of the boat with Ian and Sue, reminding them where things like fire extinguishers were located, and which rope did what. I had prepared a list of things we expected to be done while on watch and went through the log book that we would keep for the journey, once more.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">6.30am came around in the blink of an eye. Easy Tiger and crew anchored up, ready to assemble at the Seaway for an all in 7.00am departure. Many others came past us with their sails hoisted but we decided against hoisting our sails until we were out in the ocean. As we rounded the headland and straightened up, we were alongside our sailing family Eva and Brian on Zofia. Instant flashbacks to 3 and a half years ago when at 4.00am we departed Busselton WA next to each other, bound for what we thought then was a round Australia circumnavigation. Here we are now together departing on an international sailing adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Right on the knock of 7.o’clock am, the Gold Coast Seaway spewed forth 18 or so boats. Easy Tiger was in about the first half dozen spat out of the safety and quiet of the Broadwater, and dissolved into the Pacific Ocean.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Although it was a very well organized and planned rally, it seemed that of the 18 or so boats, there were 18 or so courses taken. Leanne was watching on AIS and Marine traffic and was marvelling at the spread of boats to all eastern directions on the compass. We seemed to be in the middle again, heading due East. Some said this was a good strategy. Me, I was following closely the guy who had been there 9 times before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It seemed even at that early stage that waiting for the right weather had proved a master-stroke. We had a pretty flat sea except for a small rolling swell and just enough wind to make it worthwhile putting the sails up, while still having to keep 1 motor going. This was fortunate, as Easy Tiger, Leanne and I hadn’t sailed in the actual ocean for nearly two years. By mid afternoon on that first day, the rally had pretty much spread-eagled. We had lost site of most, save for half a dozen immediately around us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On the first evening, a side on swell had developed as we approached the first lot of ocean table mounts. These are underwater mountains where the sea depth changes rapidly from around 4000metres deep to say 500metres deep. Doesn’t sound much, but the change in depth causes currents that combine with wind to have Easy Tiger doing a kind of bumpy gallop rather than a smooth canter. The result of which saw all on board except Luke, produce burley and feed the fish. Sue was the first to succumb, followed by Ian. On dusk Leanne faded after trying to prepare curry for dinner. Last but not least I was unable to complete my shift after throwing the curry overboard so to speak.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Thankfully, early morning day 2, saw us feeling quite a bit better. We had maintained contact with four other boats, which was comforting. Bossa Nova were one of these, with Neville’s dulcet tones providing encouragement over the radio. Ian says Neville sounds so good on the two-way he should work for the ABC! We had contact with the rally organizer on the vhf radio as well. Once we were well clear of the table mounts the sea flattened out. The wind came and went during the day, which meant more motoring.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By the afternoon of Day 2 we had settled in to our 3hour rotation on the helm. Sue, even if she was still a little queasy, took to the helming and “on watch” tasks with aplomb. Luke showed his skills and proficiency by plotting our position on the paper charts and getting weather updates via satellite email from Metbob. Metbob’s weather reports were compared with the Predict Wind Offshore app that I downloaded each day and from that we formed a plan for our route. That plan normally concluded with “follow the guy who’s been there 9 times before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At nightfall of Day 2 we had a weather forecast that said the winds could get upwards of 20knots. We decided to reef in the sails for the night. This means that we decrease the sail area to reduce the stress and strain on the rigging. Unfortunately this also means that the boat slows down, which meant that we lost contact with the other boats.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our third day at sea, the 25<sup>th</sup> of May, was my birthday. For me it started early as I completed my shift from 3 to 6 am. My son Luke wrote a nice message in the log book. It was just so nice to have him crewing on the boat. As I sat at the helm as dawn broke I reflected on my good fortune. To have a wonderful life partner who has supported my crazy ideas (such as buying a catamaran and sailing around Australia), my two children who continually amaze me and my great fortune to have been born in the wonderful country that is Australia. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By midday on the 3<sup>rd</sup> day there was plenty of crazy stuff going on, onboard Easy Tiger. There was a bit of a competition to see who had the craziest music on their play list and even crazier dancing and wobbling about as those crazy tunes were blaring. Lot’s of nice birthday wishes came over the satellite communications. It was also nice to no that the crew onboard San Souci had scones with jam and cream in my honour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At night fall on the third day, there was a beautiful sunset. We had been maintaining a due East course until we received word from Metbob that we could alter course and start easing our way North. That was a nice feeling to be actually aiming at our destination. Also that night we were treated to a lightning show on our southern horizon, that went for most of the night.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Friday, the 4<sup>th</sup> day at sea, we ran out of wind and fired up another motor. On my dawn shift I started to ponder many of life’s burning questions, like why are there so many there’s. Could we think of a better word for their, they’re or there. Another of those questions was “if they call them apartments, why are they all built together?”I think maybe I was getting a bit bored or maybe conditions were that nice for sailing along, that I had time to think a bit too much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Friday was probably the crew’s flattest day too. We did break out a few conversation type games and then resorted to the crossword and Sudoku puzzles in the Brisbane newspaper someone had brought on board. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Saturday,T</span>he knowledge that we should arrive the next morning kept spirits pretty high. Predict Wind, Metbob and the guy who had been there nine times before, all showed a direct route to Amedee lighthouse that is only a handful of miles from Noumea. The wind was constant in direction but ranging from 5 to 15 knots. It kept teasing us to put up our screecher and when we did it would disappear, to have us pack the sail away again.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The sixth day, Sunday, everyone was up and about a bit earlier than usual. There was a real buzz from the feeling of relief that today we would arrive. We made the way point to turn into the pass between two reefs at exactly high tide, 9.30am. We arrived with another rally participant, the lovely ketch Suena Azul. Luke got out his drone and after a really hairy take off was able to get some great pictures of us sailing past the Amedee lighthouse which marks the entry into the New Caledonia Lagoon, which is the second <o:p></o:p></span>biggest barrier reef system in the world.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At 11.30am we dropped our anchor in the Bay de Oliphant right next to the guy who has been here 9 times before, the organizer of the Down Under Go East Rally, John Hembrow. Their crew aboard Songlines were on board to wave, cheer and clap, as were Bossa Nova, Skellum and the Albatross. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At midday the champers and beers were all cracked and the arrival celebration commenced. What a terrific experience we all had shared, what a relief that we made it safely, in good weather and had no trials or tribulations to report. How nice it was to be anchored in calm water and to watch the rest of the rally boats arrive one by one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So now if you ask me, what was the best part about sailing to New Caledonia from the Gold Coast of Australia? I would answer without any hesitation…arriving.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Warm greeting from our mates on the Bossa Nova.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Crewman Ian decided to hand deliver a couple of coldies.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The number of boats in a small area in Noumea was overwhelming, particularly trying to find a spot to drop anchor.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A warm welcome from the guy who's been here nine times before, John Hembrow on Songlines.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">So our bags are packed our crew are on board, Easy Tiger is full of
fuel, water, essentials and there's enough food on board to feed the Chinese army. We just
need the right weather and off we go on the Down Under Go East Rally to New
Caledonia and Vanuatu.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We are even techo-ed up after installing an
Iridium Go satellite system. This will allow us to send and receive basic
emails and sms, make brief phone calls and show our boat’s track in real time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Most importantly, the Iridium Go allows us to get weather reports
from the Predict Wind Offshore app. This will be vital, not only during our
trip but while we are in and around New Caledonia and Vanuatu. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fortunately the set up of the Iridium Go was reasonably straight
forward, all seemed to be a bit easy actually until we tried to send and
receive emails and messages to each other. It certainly helped to have Brain
Oldfield (B2 from SV Zofia) nearby as his assistance was greatly appreciated. I
did feel a bit of a dill though when Brian determined that our problem was the
spelling of our password.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Talking among the other Rally participants we heard that a lot of
them were using a website called Windyty. This is a visual map of wind patterns
and forecasts. It uses similar models of weather forecasting to Predict Wind
but is a handy quick check, or if you like a second opinion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In anticipation of the journey, and with the availability of predict wind and Windyty, all the rally participants have become amateur weather forecasters. Each time we see each other we have been swapping possible weather windows, proposing departure dates and discussing the various weather models.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The apprehension is building and the anxiety is high. Mainly because we are all ready to start this magnificent adventure, but also because </span>many crew have flights booked and other things they need to do. This includes our son Luke who is due to fly from Noumea to Florida on the 8th June. So, if we leave later than the 28th May, we may be faced with finding new crew.</div>
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The rally participants are all sent into a frenzy when the word of a possible weather window appears. Two boats have decided that due to their crew’s deadlines, they would brave the amateur weather routes and departed on Sunday of their own accord. We are all watching their track with much interest.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On top of Predict Wind and Windy, part of our fees and also part of
our reason for joining the rally is that we get the services of a professional
weather router. The weather routing is done by a New Zealand fellow named MET
Bob. It is his advice that the Down Under Go East Rally organisers will take to
let us know when the best time to head off, is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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As we wait for updates from Metbob, the whispers of a potential departure send all the rally into a whirlwind of last minute preparations. Marina's are booked, fuel is topped up, provisions are purchased in anticipation of Metbob's go ahead. Then we wait. The email pings and Metbob's advice is... that conditions would be unsuitable in one or another part of the 1000kilometre journey.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After a few days, we all turn our hand to amateur weather forecasting. Then someone sees what they think is a window and spreads the word…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since we have been on Easy Tiger's Sailing adventures the one big thing we have learnt is that you can't plan the weather. In fact you can barely plan for the weather or, plan because of the weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He had left it very late , flying in to Australia on the 3rd of April, just days after cyclone Debbie wreaked havoc on the north east coast of Australia. After having just a few days to acclimatise himself with the boat, pick up his crew from the airport, get provisions and fit a few handy gadgets, he set off from Cairns without being able to wait for the right weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">By the time they made it to Dunk Island they were a pretty dishevelled lot on board the Alice. Luke's Facebook post from that day said it all.His "encounters" so far included<span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">"; </span><i><span style="color: white;">3x underway engine shutdowns , </span></i></span><i><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;">2x blocked fuel filters, 1x cracked filter bowl, I x torn headsail , 1x torn luff rope on staysail, 1x toilet door dismantle, 1x tender fuel filter burst, 1x bilge pump blockage, 1x autopilot failure , 1 x wind instrument install failure, 50x rail dips, 7x blinding rain squalls, 20x toilet system backing up, 1x hatch leak into cabin, 1x touching the bottom in sand, 2x paint scratches from a mooring bouy, 1x 30m fishing braid caught in the Wind Generator,</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.23999999463558197px;"> ONE MASSIVE SMILE ON MY FACE THE ENTIRE TIME (ok, 60% of the time). She's not always glamourous but learning lots about myself and ALICE that's for sure. Couldn't of done it without @howgoodisliving @bonviiie @laralif and my constant contact from moral support of @leanneludemann and mechanical expertise from @Steveludemann and @rhys_bennett101 constant inspiration from @riley.whitelum @elayna__c @sailing_nandji @sailinguma <span class="_5afx" style="cursor: pointer; direction: ltr; text-decoration: none;"><a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"tn":"*N","type":104}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/yewwwwww?source=feed_text&story_id=10154604029114001" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #4267b2;">#</span><span class="_58cm">yewwwwww</span></a>.</span></span></span></i></span></div>
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Mid morning we went over to John Hembrow's boat for him to download the New Caledonia and Vanuatu "Rocket" cruising guides. I have to say, these are far and away the best cruising and sailing information guides I have used. Sad to say that the rest of the day after I downloaded the "Rocket Guides" was a write off as I was transfixed with viewing images and looking at routes and tracks that we will be taking over the next 6 months. In fact I probably don't really need to go now as I have seen so much over a couple of days is spent glued to the rocket guides.</div>
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the panel. My first thought was that the line might be blocked or something had
dried inside the drain hose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So dangling upside down into the area where
the hot water system is, I managed to undo the drain hose for the washing
machine. I could blow through it and suck water through it quite easily. Damn.
It seemed like it wasn’t an easy fix.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I drained the water out of the washer,
spilling quite a bit into the floor of the boat. Now sloshing around in the
washing water, I tried to get the machine to do another cycle and see if it had
righted itself. No go. Again I had to drain the water manually, spilling even
more on to the floor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So, now it was time to ring the washing
machine company. While I was doing this Leanne mopped up the spilt water and
then put our de-humidifier into the spare cabin to dry things out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To be fair the washing machine is probably
two years old. The company said that they would send me a new drain pump for
free which I was impressed with, but they would not pay for any labour involved
in the repair, which I was not impressed with. The new pump arrived the next
day, the day before Easter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">While this was being organized, Leanne
noticed that the dehumidifier was turning itself off after only running for a
few minutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had just packed all the
manuals, receipts and information sheets away after searching for the washing
machine book. Now there was another frantic search for the dehumidifier book
and another Google search for trouble shooting the IONmax dehumidifier. A call
to the dehumidifier company revealed pretty much the same as the washing
machine. It’s older than twelve months, therefore out of warranty. In fairness
to the company, they are quite happy to have you send to Victoria, then charge you
the technicians time followed by a charge to send it back. They were even
happier to give a basic estimate of $350 for the repair of a $400 machine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With the information we decided to throw
the dehumidifier out and buy a new one. That will cost $389 delivered.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Meanwhile, back to the washing machine. With
the new pump in hand I decided to tackle the job head on. Our washing machine
is located in a very tight location under the bed in Easy Tiger’s rear cabin. I
had to take the door off and then lift the 80kilo machine up on to the bed to
then roll sideways to then lift through the doorway to install it. It would
take a herculean effort to get it out but that had to happen as the pump is
located in the bottom of the machine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I rigged some straps underneath the machine
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squeezed herself into the doorway so that she could do the twisting once I had
the weight of the machine. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Surprisingly
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and the door way. With several attempts accompanied by noises normally made by
gold medal weightlifters, the machine came up onto the bed lying on its correct
side for getting it through the narrow doorway. The problem now being that I
was on the other side of the machine to the doorway with it resting on my lap.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With the twisting and wriggling that an Indian
rubber man would have been proud of, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
managed to writhe out from under the washing machine and then squeeze between
it and the cabin roof to end up face down on the floor, sweaty, smelly and
exhausted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To my absolute delight the drain pump took
less than tem minutes to replace with the new one, which meant that I had only
a short recovery time before again I was wrestling with the machine to
reinstall it into the professionally crafted and exact fitting space we had
paid to create for it. Again I lay on the floor pushing at the bottom while
Leanne stood above me pushing at the top. After an hour or so of grunting,
pushing, and levering we had it right.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Convinced that it was ready to go, I
plugged it in and turned the dial to the shortest cycle. The machine burst into
life, filled its bowl with water and washed for the next 5 minutes while we
watched with baited breath.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then we heard a whirr and a clunk. We heard
water being pumped over board. We high fived each other in glee, thinking the problem
solved. Or so we thought. The machine had always drained the wash water and
that was what it was doing now. We sat back down. We waited with trepidation.
These machines seem to take an eternity to get through their cycle when you are
sitting there waiting for them. At last with a click and a whirr, the moment
had arrived. Drain. We waited. Come on, drain. Please …drain. Alas it was not
to be. Even with a new pump and a cleared drain hose the washing machine would
not drain. Cheekily it just displayed Error 3 on it’s red display screen. It just
sits there daring you to drain it manually, to spill water all over the floor
and to use the dud dehumidifier to try and dry it all up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it was late Thursday night, so nothing
else we could do but cut the power and kill that annoying red error code. Now facing
the fact that being a problem in the electronics and out of warranty, the
washing machine may well be the next thing to be thrown over board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But now it’s Good Friday, we have motored
up to Dux anchorage and the washing machine and dehumidifier experience is
temporarily forgotten, while we enjoy a sundowner with other boaties.<o:p></o:p></span>We have all Easter to relax before we ring the company to haggle some warranty or repairs.</div>
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Its ow been 5 weeks since our great road trip from Western Australia to the Gold Coast to restart Easy Tiger's Sailing adventures.</div>
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With Easy Tiger having been in storage for a year, there were of course a number of jobs that needed to be done for for relaunch.</div>
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For example, replacing a leaking through hull fitting and sorting new tie downs for the old kayak and now a new kayak.</div>
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Also, we decided that being nearly ten years old, Easy Tiger's inside could do with a makeover which we achieved in two short weeks. As we were whittling away our to do list, we were getting more and more excited about getting Easy Tiger back in the water and heading off wherever the wind took us.</div>
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Then our daughter called with some exciting news. No, not grand kids; but they had bought their first house. How lovely it would be for us to go to Cairns and help them move in and get settled. Arrangements were made and tickets were purchased for us to arrive in Cairns the day after their settlement.</div>
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Since we were going to leave Easy Tiger for another three weeks, we calculated that leaving her in storage at the boat works was the cheapest option we could find. Plus, on our return we could finish our to do list before antifoam application on the hard stand work area and then into the water she goes.</div>
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Then we got a call from our son. He was looking at buying a yacht and sailing for a year or so. He had found one that he wanted us to look at for him. It was in Cairns. So without further ado we were on a plane to Cairns to look at a Roberts 39 sailing boat on behalf of our son.</div>
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We arrived in Cairns two weeks earlier than expected. The only bummer about that was that our to do list for Easy Tiger remained. A day spent inspecting the "Alice" and a day spent packing stuff into boxes for our daughter and then back to the Gold Coast.</div>
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In the next ten days we installed our Iridium Go, which would give us satellite communications, We cut and polished both hulls, we fitted Nomad matting to our cockpit, serviced our Honda generator, repacked the storage compartments, had our life raft serviced and completed many 5 minute jobs all that took several hours each.</div>
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Then we locked Easy Tiger back up, asked the car (the mobile storage unit) and drove to Cairns. </div>
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On arrival in Cairns we helped our daughter and her partner move the last items out of their house, scrubbed their old house from top to bottom and unpacked boxes of stuff at the new place. </div>
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We also attended the survey and inspection plus lift out and hard stand of our son's boat "Alice" and commenced the clean up and odd job list for that. </div>
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While we were doing this Cairns was placed on cyclone alert. So we had to tie Lukes boat on to lugs set int the concrete at the big boat shed, then strip everything off the deck and stow sails etc inside.</div>
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Fortunately cyclone Debbie bypassed Cairns and went to the Whitsunday Islands and Mackay instead.</div>
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After 20 days in Cairns we then flew back to the Gold Coast, boarding Easy Tiger at 1.00am on the Sunday. At 7.00 am on the Monday morning we were lifted, that afternoon the boat was prepped and Antifouled as I serviced the engines and sail drives, then at 12.30pm on the tuesday Easy Tiger got wet for the first time in 14 Months as it was lifted back into the water.</div>
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So now we can catch our breath. We are back in the water anchored at Dux anchorage near Tipplers resort. We have the phones turned off and are enjoying a bit of a midday nap. This is what we paid the dollars for, this is what we had dreamed of, so no more interruptions for a few days.</div>
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During the wet and cold August in Bunbury WA, last year Leanne and I had gone for several weeks, without even mentioning it to each other. Leanne was suffering from dry eyes syndrome and had developed planta-fasciitis in her foot, which made going outside and walking quite a painful experience. I was working from early in the morning to late evenings. Thinking that this was all towards our goal of getting back on the boat, but at the same time getting quite despondent about it ever actually happening.</div>
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Out of the blue, Leanne got a face time call from our sailing buddies, Melian and Ian on Indian Summer. They had left Mandurah (Perth) six months ago to sail north through the Kimberleys to Darwin from where they had joined the Sail Indonesia Rally.</div>
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Melian's tales of adventure and fun sailing in the warm climate of Indonesia visiting many small villages the and Orang-utan sanctuary along their journey rekindled Leanne's sailing spirit at exactly the right time. She couldn't wait for me to get home from work. By the time I did trudge through the door, she had done quite a bit of research into Sail Indonesia.<br />
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It was inspiring to see Leanne so upbeat about our sailing adventures again. I was a little horrified about the idea of travelling through Indonesia as the last three times I have been to Bali I've suffered from Bali Belly (aka; dysentery) Also last time we were there Leanne caught a bout of denghy fever. so, no Indonesia didn't hold great memories, but at least it was nice to be discussing the possibilities and destinations and dreaming of sailing adventures again.<br />
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Over the next week or so Leanne did more research on yacht rallies in general, which is when she came across the Down Under Go East Rally. This was a rally, or if you like a convoy, that heads out to the South Pacific. The more we discussed the idea the more we like the sound of going in a convoy to the South Pacific and visiting the beautiful islands of New Caledonia and Vanuatu.<br />
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The work I was doing at the time was four days on and four days off. As luck would have it, the Down Under Go East Rally was holding an information day in November at the boat works (where Easy Tiger was in storage) and on a day that fell right in the middle of my days off. So tickets were booked and arrangements made. We got to spend a few days on Easy Tiger and got to attend the information day for the Down Under Go East Rally. The best part, though was that we got to see so many of our sailing friends as they were packing up their boats after the cruising season that we had just missed.<br />
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Our arrival at the Boatworks coincided with Neville and Amanda lifting Bossa Nova out of the water for six months storage. Also, Brain and Eva from Sofia had come down from Brisbane for a short sharp visit and to attend the information day.<br />
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There were about 40 people in attendance at the information day, where the promoter of the rally, John Hembrow spoke. He showed us the barrier reef of New Caledonia and the lovely small villages and islands of Vanuatu.<br />
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After "expressing" our interest we started talking about it more. We discussed the possibilities at length with others that we knew. Most seemed quite interested. For me there was a fair bit of trepidation at taken on another long passage, as we had a bit of a rough time crossing the Great Australian Bight. This trio would be couple of hundred nautical miles longer. But the more we talked to each other and to other cruisers we knew each and every problem could be solved. Also we started adding up the costs, looking into things like national registration for the boat, Insurance for overseas passages, searching for crew and a whole host of other items.<br />
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While their seemed so much to think about, so much information to be sought and so many decisions to be made it could have been a bit overwhelming. The nice part was though that since that day we have approached our sailing adventures with a new sense of vigour and excitement. A dream was generated. It was just like the year before we left to sail around Australia. A whole new adventure.<br />
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We had started to rally for the rally.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This week the Gold Coast of Australia has been a heat wave.
Temperatures have hovered near on 40 degrees celsius on the coast, while a little further
inland 45 degrees was forecast for several towns. During our road trip from Western Australia to the Gold Coast we had regular readings on the car dashboard of 45degrees external temp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Easy Tiger is being prepped for the next adventure. This means that
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<span lang="EN-US">Part of our prep and for Easy Tiger’s 10<sup>Th</sup> birthday we
have decided to give the saloon area a makeover.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> After getting a few quotes and prices it was soon clear that it wasn't going to happen unless we did a lot of the hard core labour ourselves. We didn't factor in the heat though.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The first task required, was to tape up the whole saloon/galley area,
sand back the bench tops and then sand off the worn cork floor. Not the sort of
job that should be done in 40degree heat. But it had to be done. We decided to work Mexican hours to see if that was the best way to tackle the task. Mexican hours are starting early, then a siesta in the middle of the day and then an "afternoon" shift in the evening. This worked well for a few days until we found that afternoon shift just wasn't happening. We had stuck too much to Australian afternoon hours which means 5.00pm is beer o'clock.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our sailing buddies, Brian (B1) and Maree are here at boat works as
well. They, like us, had been back in Western Australia for a “spell” and like
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<span lang="EN-US">As I was prepping the floor for sanding one particularly hot day, Brian
knocked on the boat and came aboard to see if he could borrow our car. “I am
off to buy a portable air-conditioner,” he said, “We can’t cope any longer
without some sort of cooling”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“No need to borrow the car”, I said. “I think we will come with you
to buy one as well!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I probably should
have cleared this with Leanne first, as an air conditioner was well over our
budget. It was with a little trepidation I told her of my brief conversation
with Brian. “Thank god for that. Let’s go,” was her reply.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Brian had a particular make and model in mind, as it would fit in
the best spot on their boat “Urchin”. Another boat in the Boatworks yard,
Aqualibrium had one of these, so after finding out where Gerry got his, I
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<span lang="EN-US">I soon found out it wasn’t who would give us the best price; it was
a matter of who would have anything like a portable air-conditioner in stock in
South East Queensland. With a heat wave lasting a couple of weeks before we
arrived and another impending hot spell forecast it seems that most people in
South East Queensland were looking for the same thing as we were, portable
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<span lang="EN-US">After ringing all the major big brand stores and being basically
laughed at, I rang a smaller store who said that he had one left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We thought briefly about leaving Brian and
Maree behind, while we raced to the store at the speed of light. We relented
though and took them with us. Guess what? They got in first and paid for the
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<span lang="EN-US">After some discussion with the sales guy (and pleading and begging from Leanne), the guy rang several other stores and located one
portable air-conditioner in a store 20 kilometers away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our heat wave was over. We would be cool
tonight. Or so we thought, until we tried to get one big portable air-conditioner,
plus Brian and Maree, plus the left over bits and pieces we can’t fit on the
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<span lang="EN-US">What to do? The store couldn’t deliver for a few days. We wanted to
be cool, now. Thankfully Boatworks yard have courtesy utes available for folks
using their boat yard which are available for three hours at a time. They are
hotly contested among the boaties who are all trying to get things done on
their boat in the shortest possible time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Hurriedly we rang to book the courtesy utility from the Boatworks, Luckily
one was available but only for two hours as it had to be back before the office
closed. Then we had get back to the yard, change vehicles and drive to the far
off store, getting there before they sold the last unit. If we failed, we would
be feeling the heat for another month.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fortunately, we were successful. We picked up the second last
portable air-conditioner unit in South East Queensland. Leanne wept tears of
joy as we plugged it in and felt the cold air it blew into our faces. Our 4.1kw
of cooling power, plus our boom cover providing some shade over the boat have
made a far more comfortable existence while we are getting through our list of
chores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The only time it has been switched off since that moment was the day
I spent a day sanding down bench tops and floors, our new best friend, as I
didn’t want to fill our new most favourite thing on the boat filled with
sanding dust and grit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Even that day is now a distant memory, now that we have our new
floors in, our new bench tops and our lovely new seating. The only problem is,
that it is even harder to get out side, feel the heat and get things done.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">As for the makeover of Easy Tiger...well we think she now looks...HOT!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our new most favourite thing on the boat. Our Portable Airconditioner.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taped up masked up and temperature up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The start of the floor boards</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">While I was doing the floor Leanne prepped the bench tops</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now for the tricky bits</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flors done then our new upholstery arrived.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It all came together at last.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The final product.</td></tr>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-944583260413464522017-02-07T04:20:00.000-08:002017-02-07T04:20:34.424-08:00Sailing Around Australia; Stuff<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Stuff<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am sitting here surrounded by stuff. In fact I had to shove it out
of the way to be able to sit and type on my mac book. Normally having all this
in my personal space would really annoy me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today though, the stuff that is strewn about the saloon of Easy
Tiger is ok. That’s because it is all our stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For the past 8 months we have lived with other peoples stuff that we
were very careful and respectful of. Now that we are back on board Easy Tiger
with our own stuff we don’t have to give a “stuff” about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Have you noticed how strange stuff is? People have garages, spare
rooms and storage units full of stuff. Even after our huge downsizing, going
from a family of four to two people living on a boat, we have a sea container
full of stuff that we just can’t seem to part with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This stuff seems to be able to breed, grow and multiply better than
rabbits. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When we left for the trip home to WA, we flew out with one bag of
luggage each. A month later we moved into a house sit, with those two bags and
a couple of boxes of stuff.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Three months later we moved out of that house to another with four
bags and three quite big boxes of stuff, to the second house sit job.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Three months later we had two car-loads of stuff. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We needed to cull our stuff before it took over and smothered us. What
to do with all this stuff? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There was no other alternative. We would have to go through our sea
container load of stuff and do some culling.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We were dreading having to do it, but on the last day we had available,
we finally got round to opening up our time capsule. We spent a day unloading, then
reloading and restacking our sea container. By the end of it we were well
satisfied we had sorted our stuff. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had a car-load for the rubbish tip and some bags for the charity bins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had made a bit more space in the sea
container. Unfortunately we had the car half loaded with stuff we wanted to
take back to the boat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We had decided to drive our car back to the Gold Coast, where Easy
Tiger has been stored, while we have been back in Western Australia. The
advantage of taking our car was we would have wheels to get around in while we
were on the East Coast of Australia. We didn’t dream that we would be using it
as a storage unit!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The day before our departure, I stacked, packed and squashed the
huge pile of stuff we wanted to take with us into the car. Several times I got
down to two or three items left and had to start over again, as they just
didn’t seem to fit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After another five days driving, we arrived at Boatworks in Coomera at
a bit over 8pm. Exhausted after spending 16 hours driving.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Since then two and a half days have gone by. What have we been
doing? Sorting stuff. Every cupboard on Easy Tiger had to be emptied cleaned
out and the repacked with new (or just different) stuff. So the stuff brought
with us in the car had to fnd a home on Easy Tiger. The stuff on Easy Tiger had
to find a place. Where was the best place for that stuff? In the car. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our 5 seater car is now merely a mobile storage unit.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It does finally feel good that we have our stuff together and
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motivation will strike. I hope it’s not soon though, because I am stuffed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-34108589712600565092017-01-27T19:17:00.002-08:002017-01-27T19:18:51.274-08:00Sailing Around Australia; Every Journey Begins with a Single Step<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Every Journey Begins with a Single Step<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was Lao Tzu who said that a 100klm journey begins with a single
step. We found that the first step in our road trip back to Easy Tiger and our
sailing Adventures was indeed the hardest thing of all, saying goodbye again to
our family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Having been back among our family and friends for nearly ten months we
felt reconnected. For example Leanne had spent time shopping and having coffee’s
with her mum and I had several “bro- days” with my brother. Even though we
didn’t do as much of these sort of activities as we would have liked due to being
into our “normal routine” of work, eat sleep, repeat, we cherished the time we
had. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This “routine” could have carried on for as long as we wanted, all
the while thinking that when we had enough money we would head back to the
boat, but my job was only four days a week and Leanne’s a few hours each day,
we found were really only treading water financially.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When we arrived back in WA, we didn’t know how long we would be staying,
so we didn’t want to break the lease on our house. The tenants have been very
good and would be hard to replace. So Leanne hit on the idea of house sitting
for people who are going away and want their property cared for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After registering on the House Sitters Australia web site, we found
a House-sitting job for three months at Bob and Judy Dunbar’s place. From the
first meeting we soon worked out that these house sit jobs are really dog
sits.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the homeowners left each time,
without fail they would say, “Don’t worry too much about the house just take
good care of the dog”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The best part about the house sitting was that we saved money on
rent and it felt quite nice to be helping people out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In between house sit jobs we were very very fortunate to be offered
a place to stay with our beautiful friends Stacey and Ian Bateman. We were
quite concerned that we would outstay our welcome, as these two are very busy
running How Shique, (the best Hair dressing studio in the world) and Maxwell
& Lee (fabulous homewares on line) plus Ian has full time work at the
Westpac bank.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In testament to the great people and wonderful friends they are, we
all made it work OK. We really were grateful for the enormous help they were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I did feel quite guilty leaving my family again. I still hadn’t got
to the couple of jobs that said I would do for my mum, I would of liked to help
my sister find good employment, then, the week before we left, my brother was
made redundant which was a real shock.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Leanne’s family had really enjoyed having her around too. None of us
are getting any younger so we are not sure what the future holds. Fair to say
though that currently our family’s good health and a lack of grandchildren,
presents an ideal time for us to take off on our sailing adventures. Should our
families need us we are only a plane ride away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It’s pretty hared to say goodbye to our true friends. We have
invited them to come and spend time on the boat with us, but of course short
periods of annual leave etc where they have their own family to visit etc makes
it difficult to see happening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sadly we will miss our friend April’s 50<sup>th</sup> birthday
celebration. Our sailor’s budget just won’t stretch to travelling to Bali or
Singapore with them. That’s hard to swallow but we have and adventure to
pursue. No doubt there will be many other experiences that our friends will
have without us and obviously vice versa, but I am sure that when we do see
them all again, we will be very interested to here their stories as they will
ours.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I every journey begins with a step, ours was deciding on a departure
date. That sort of fell on us in a way, as our last house sit/dog sit job was
to end on the 21st January. We were dreading having to find yet another address
to hang our hat in, to move our gear to and another house to find our way
around in, so we decided enough was enough and set 21<sup>st</sup> January as
our departure date.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second step in our journey was even harder. It was saying
goodbye to everyone, not sure when we would see them again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We know that we have a wonderful opportunity and many great
experiences to enjoy in the near future. It doesn’t make the first step of
saying goodbye any easier though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At our send off dinner with wonderful friends</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">not to be outdone, the fellas.</td></tr>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-28002246088629571942016-11-27T00:02:00.000-08:002016-11-27T00:02:02.515-08:00Sailing Around Australia - Chameleons<div class="MsoNormal">
<span lang="EN-US">Chameleons<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We have been on a sojourn from our sailing adventures since April,
as we top up the kitty by working and top up the browny points by spending time
with the family. During this time it has amazed me how chameleon-like we are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Looking back, when we left on our sailing adventures in 2013 it was
a slow transformation from jobs and “normal life” to relaxed, carefree cruising
sailors that took 2 or 3 months to evolve, a bit like our sun tans that took a
few months to bronze, or in my case to go from red to a shade of fawny brown.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In April 2016, we had to leave Easy Tiger on the hard stand (in
storage) at the Gold Coast while we attended to business matters at home in
Bunbury. After a couple of years of sailing around pretty much as we pleased,
it was a shock to the system to have to front up every morning, on time,
motivated and prepared for the cut and thrust of managing staff, customers and
general business.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I would say that within a week our tans had started to fade, our
minds had changed from the next sail to the next sale and the dreaded rise in
stress levels had kicked in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fortunately, in July we sold our business. That was again a real
change in our psyche. We now had to make sure all our I’s were dotted and our T’s
were crossed so that the sale would actually go through. Rather than waiting
for the next weather window we were waiting for the bank to approve the
purchasers finance, then we were waiting for the handover date, then we were
waiting for the handover period to finish and then… finally were done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our next change was into thinking like investors. The money we had
left over after all the business bibs and bobs were done with, had to be
squirreled away very wisely. Then hopefully we would have some left over to
re-boot our sailing adventures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By the time we settled all that it was now, September. The annual southwards
migration of Humpback whales and cruising sailors had begun by then. We were
being teased by blogs, emails and facebook stories of the wonderful time our
sailing buddies were having as they ventured to new destinations such as Hardy’s
reef, Yellow Patch and Orpheus Island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A quick look into our sailing money account told us we had enough to
sail for probably six months, then it would be back to work. After much discussion,
some negotiation with each other and several coin tossing sessions, we decided
to find jobs now, for the next six months rather than race back to the boat nd
catch up with all the others for a few weeks. We could then build our sailing
funds up to the point where we could sail for a year or so, beginning in April
or May 2017 when the northward migration began and conditions are much better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So with out further ado, we morphed into job seekers. We were both
concerned though as the local economy in WA has suffered a huge downturn and
many businesses were closing, not hiring. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For me, finding a job was surprisingly easy, courtesy of having had
a road train driver’s license for some years. I was able to find a job working
four days on then four days off which suited.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For Leanne, though, it turned out to be a far more difficult task.
After sending 20 or so applications off, often having no response, three
interviews at Bunning’s and a host of other dead ends, Leanne was getting quite
downhearted. Also, the processes employers are using such as group interviews, (and
the video response I had to send in) for what are relatively straightforward
jobs is now very interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">16 years of running our own business yet it was very hard for Leanne to find work.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">For someone who has run our own business, has achieved a lot of
sales success, and has sailed short handed around Australia, getting constantly
rejected for jobs as a checkout chick, or chicken recipe demonstrator csn be
really demoralizing. Thankfully, our friend Christina came up with a solution
and offered Leanne some work as a housekeeper at a resort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So I have morphed into a fluoro wearing, shift workin’, gear
crunchin’ trucker who rolls up and down the highway dreaming of our next
sailing adventure. Leanne now spends her days cleaning and making beds,
dreaming of getting off her feet, having a cup of tea and a lie down after her
day of physically demanding work.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">After some weeks of get up early go to work come home, have dinner,
go to bed… repeat;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our sailing dream had
begun to slip away. In fact we had both been looking at maybe buying a house
and putting our roots down and…egad… selling Easy Tiger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">How lucky that our friends, Melian and Ian, shared some of their
sailing journey on facebook with Leanne. These friends had bought a catamaran
in the Seychelle Islands, had it sailed back to Mandurah and become our
neighbours in the Marina. These two both had hectic jobs, teenage kids, were
building a house etc..etc.. while Easy Tiger was moored next<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to their boat, Indian Summer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Somehow they managed to get their boat up to speed (I think Ian
stayed on board during the week, so that he could work on it during the
evenings) and had thrown the ropes earlier this year. W</span>ith tons of courage, they
had headed north on the Western Australian Coast, through the Kimberleys to
Darwin and were now in North Java, Indonesia, participating in the Sail
Indonesia Rally. From there they intend to do a circumnavigation of the world.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When I arrived home the night after Leanne had been Face timing with
Melian, the transformation in Leanne left me quite amazed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Just like the first time she had got excited about buying a
catamaran, her lights were back on. Just like the first time, within a week we
were booked to fly to Queensland although not to hire a boat this time, but to
visit our boat and to reunite with some of our sailing buddies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our arrival at the Boatworks yard on the gold coast was exciting.
Neville and Amanda from Bossa Nova picked us up from the train station. After
an hour or so of talking about their adventures of their cruising season, we
realised how relaxed they were, how tanned they were and how many new
adventures they had. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conversation
flowed like it was like we had never been away, but left me feeling that I had
missed out on a lot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There was a Pizza night at the café where we met several more
“boaties”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A couple of days later there
was a talk about sailing to New Caledonia and there we caught up with part of
our “Sailing Family”, Brain and Eva. That also left me with the feeling of how
far removed from this “community” we had become<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I was relieved to find that as the discussions turned to next years
planned adventures, I realised how easily and quickly we will morph back into
being cruising sailors, once our work is done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-81189916649035040682016-04-12T21:33:00.002-07:002016-04-12T21:33:50.219-07:00Sailing Around Australia; You Don't Know What You'e Got13th April 2016<br />
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You don't know what you've got till it's gone.<br />
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Our sailing adventures began in 2013. We left Perth not really knowing if we'd enjoy the experience, not really knowing where we would end up and not really knowing how long we would go for.<br />
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2 and a bit years on and we are really enjoying the experience of cruising sailing. We still don't know where we are going to end up, but at least for the moment we also know we have only two weeks left.<br />
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In the past two and a bit years we have only been home a couple of times. We were settled in Brisbane before Christmas to sit out the cyclone season further north, when we found some cheap fares and flew home to WA for a visit.<br />
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Our timing was impeccable. We got to attend a niece's 21st and a friend's 60th birthday celebrations.We were able to spend Leanne's fathers 80th birthday with him. We stayed with my Mum who had not been well and as fortune would have it, we spent some time with my Dad at the nursing home he lived in. This was especially good timing as he passed away 5 days later.<br />
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My Dad's passing brought real meaning to our mantra of live life well while you can. He had a stroke at the age of 59 that robbed him of his ability to work, or participate fully in many of the pastimes he enjoyed, like golf and bowls. He had several more strokes, each robbing him of independence until we were forced to put him in the car of a nursing home. I used to almost feel guilty when regaling our stories of sailing adventures and the places we have been or the people we had met, hoping not to make him feel too envious. I also will always feel a little guilty that we only got to visit him a couple of time a year since we left.<br />
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Another thing that hit us hard during our home visit was the state of our local economy. On the day we landed I mistakenly read the local newspaper. I say mistakenly because reading the doom and gloom on each page of the paper brought a feeling of missing the boat terribly. The BHP Alumina works that drives much of our local economy had laid off several hundred workers and more cut backs and retrenchments were on the cards. There were more stories of a similar vane and even the sport on the back page didn't cheer me up much with the favourite football team getting well beaten.<br />
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While visiting friends we kept hearing many stories of lost jobs and financial hardship causing high amounts of stress on our mates. We again felt almost guilty for sharing our adventures.<br />
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Than came our turn. The small business that we are partners in has consequently suffered a hit and sales are well down this year. We had hoped the the business and our house rental would support our sailing adventures, but this will not be the case.<br />
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Faced with a sharp decline in income, we had to cut costs. Our business partner decided that he would like to leave the business and we were left with having to put our sailing adventures on hold for the foreseeable future.<br />
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We had six weeks to get Easy Tiger into storage and secured. We then have to get back to Bunbury and find somewhere to live and get into work mode in our heads.<br />
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So for the past week we have been savouring every moment of the sailing life. We have been cruising around Moreton bay enjoying each minute. Fortunately we have had great weather and Leanne has been snorkelling at Tangalooma and we have been swimming at Deanbilla.<br />
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Today we have anchored off Tipplers resort. We have contemplated going ashore, but that would waste a precious hour or so that we could spend on ET.<br />
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We will be hauled out at the boat works on Friday and will pack up and strip Easy Tiger so that she can wait for our return. While we are not sure when that will be, we do know that it will be as soon as practically possible.<br />
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The song says you don't know what you've got till it's gone. Trouble is we do know what we had but luckily it's not gone, it's just on hold.<br />
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<br />Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-51249287884736245922016-02-05T22:36:00.000-08:002016-02-05T22:36:04.350-08:00Sailing Around Australia; Flat SpotBoatworks, Coomera River, Gold Coast<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">It is fair to say that sailing around Australia aboard Easy Tiger is
the adventure of a lifetime. We do feel a little bit embarrassed to say that
every now and then we hit a flat spot.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">All great adventures had their dull moments I am sure. These are the
times that can’t be described as exciting, dangerous or even mildly
stimulating. Theses are the times when the adventurers just have to grind it out,
do the hard yards or sit and wait at the ready.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One such flat spot has been the past 12 days. For theses days we
have had Easy Tiger pulled out of the water and sitting half in a shed at the
Boatworks near the Gold Coast.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This was so that we could have Easy Tiger’s starboard keel repaired.
As usual we also took the opportunity to do other repairs and of course have
some new bits added.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">To save money we try to do as much as we can ourselves, so for most
of the 12 days we have been flat out sun up to after sun down, scrubbing,
sanding, polishing, glueing, cleaning and other laboring tasks as well.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">While we were doing this Easy Tiger had her bows pointed north with
the stern inside the shed. This had a multiplier effect as the sun blazed down
on the foredeck all day, the shed blocked what little breeze there was and we
melted as we worked.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The heat didn’t abate much in the evenings so sleep was something we
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<span lang="EN-US">We got as much as we could done, but some days it was working in
slow motion and more than a couple of times a trip to the shops was made on a
very feeble excuse, just so that we could sit in the air-conditioning for a
while. Unfortunately one of the coolest shops was Bunnings and that meant our
budget was whacked again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Some jobs were invented y mistakes, adding to our already short
tempers. We used degreaser to remove some dirty black marks on our foredeck.
The degreaser got all the dirt off really well. The deck looked a treat.
Unfortunately the degreaser then ran over the sides of the hulls and took all
our freshly applied polish with it. So we had to re-polish the hulls, which
took a very long day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once our keel was repaired, they had to sand back and re-apply a
coat of anti foul. That is black sticky paint stuff that, bless their cotton
socks, they decided to apply by spraying rather than rolling. We were told that
from the minute they finished spraying we would have an hour to completely
scrub the boat, or the overspray would settle and be near on impossible to
remove. That was also the hottest day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One could only imagine our relief at being put back in the water at 4.00pm
yesterday and last night we slept like babes even though the wind was howling
through the rigging, the boat was buffeted from side to side and the rain was
heavy on the roof. Plus it was still at least 28 degrees.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Today has been spent tidying up after the works. Leanne has spent
half the day at the free Laundromat and I have done some i</span>nside jobs including
relocating phone charger points. We have done one of five or six more wash
downs to get the black foot prints and various other marks of our beloved Easy
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Word of warning; don't fish in a green zone in Queensland. That hovering helicopter isn't taking holiday snaps, it's taking photo's to use as evidence that is then used to slap you with an $1800 fine. Ask us how we know! Nice of Leanne to give them a wave!!!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The naughty dinghy even got some attention scrubbed, re-glued and cleaned.</td></tr>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-60219445091628881542016-01-24T20:05:00.001-08:002016-01-24T20:05:33.881-08:00Sailing around Australia; Straya Day<span style="font-size: x-small;">Jumpinpin Bar, South Stradbroke Ilsand, Gold C</span>oast<br />
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<span lang="EN-US">25/1/2016 Straya day</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Here we are spending Australia Day 2016 aboard our catamaran Easy
Tiger at the Jumpinpin Bar near the
Gold Coast Queensland.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Of the 200 or so boats anchored between us and the horizon, I think
at least 3/4s of them are flying the Australian flag, as we are. Just to be
different we are also flying the West Australian flag too, which is attracting
many a quizzical look.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">What a terrific day to celebrate our good fortune of being born in
country that has so much freedom. We have the freedom to take opportunities
that are presented, freedom to earn money and the freedom to use that money to
buy a pleasure boat if we so choose.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then we still have the freedom to use that boat in any way we choose
to. Like taking off from our home port and sailing around our continent. We
also have the freedom to choose taking our big power boat to Jumpinpin for the
Straya day weekend, where we anchor up nice and close to someone elses sailing
catamaran, then we have the freedom to crank the stereo so the whole anchorage
can listen to the soothing sounds of Jimmy Barnes.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Of course what good would that freedom be if you couldn’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shout and swear a bit especially when the
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tie it on to the side of ours, then while jimmy barnes is shouting about
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<span lang="EN-US">Not that I am saying this happened, mind you. I am just saying that
we are free to do and behave like this if we choose, while so many others are just trying to
live, or spend days trying to find their next meal. That’s why I celebrate
Straya Day.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few of the many boats anchored around us.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Full moon at Jumpinpin past night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few photos I took while on a visit to North Stradbroke Island with Paul and Jenny off "MY RUBY"</td></tr>
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<br />Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-45949021309616347882016-01-21T03:06:00.004-08:002016-01-21T03:06:42.019-08:00Sailing Around Australia; Our First Tangalooma Tale<span style="font-size: x-small;">Deanbilla, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Our first Tangalooma Tale<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Yesterday, we took Easy Tiger on her second
voyage form Brisbane to Tangalooma. I am pleased to say it went off without a
hitch, unlike our first trip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Not many know the story, but when we first became owners of Easy
Tiger, our first trip was from the RQYS to Tangalooma on Moreton Island, about
15 nautical miles from Brisbane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Tangalooma is where the Queensland government dumped some wrecks of
barges and dredges that had been littering the river. They took them over to
Tangalooma and put them parallel with the beach, hoping to make a breakwater
from the wind and the currents. The breakwater idea failed, but it is now a
good snorkeling , diving and boating spot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We arrived in Brisbane, with our daughter Bree and her boyfriend at
the time, Clinton. We were very excited to be spending our first week on “our”
boat, Easy Tiger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our guy, Ken, that was helping us look after Easy Tiger had parked
it in the VIP pens right in front of the restaurant and bars at the Royal
Queensland Yacht Squadron.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I must point out at this time that my sailing experience up until
this point consisted of 4 days on a yacht while doing my competent crew
certificate. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The four of us sprang out of the taxi and ran down the jetty,
leaping aboard our boat. Our luggage was stowed quick time and we went over the
boat with a fine tooth comb, trying to remember everything from our inspection,
lift out and test sail a couple of months earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The day went by in a flash with the girls going shopping and the
guys, checking everything out, then deciding that we would go for a look see in
the dinghy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In my haste, I grabbed the dinghy rope in both hands, and let the
clutch go before I had the rope around the winch. The weight of the dinghy sent
it crashing in the water, pulling the rope through my hands very quickly. This
caused a serious burn that blistered within seconds in the both of my palms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For the rest of the week I was doing everything by using fingertips
only. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The girls arrived back from the shops and by the time all the
provisions were stowed, it was time for dinner. Leanne had bought some meat for
the barbecue and set about plugging the barbecue gas line in. The bayonet was
quite stiff, so she took a step back to give the gas bayonet a good push, but
she stepped back too far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Into the water she tumbled, much to the mirth of the considerable
crowd now gathered in the RQYS bar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The next morning we set off for our trip to Tangalooma. We had been
going for a few hours and were feeling quite pleased that we had left the mooring
pen, got out of the busy marina and around St Helena Island without any
mishaps. Even with me steering by fingertips and heavily bandaged hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As we approached Moreton Island the need to tack or something like
that became more obvious to me. As in my training , I announced to everyone
that we would prepare to tack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Leanne was fishing and carried on with that. Bree was sitting on a
chair reading a book and carried on with that. Clinton was inside getting
something to eat. So I prepared to tack, by myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Preparation to tack on Easy Tiger involves bringing the traveller to
the centre of the boat. Unfortunately, the previous owners must have got a
special price on blue rope, because our dinghy lift rope, traveller rope and
the main sheet, were all blue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In my preparation to tack I managed to undo the dinghy haul up rope,
causing it to once again allow the dinghy to free fall into the water. In a
state of shock I called to the crew, “oh shit, the dinghies in the water”. To
which they responded by carrying on doing what they were doing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I needed to get a response and some help quickly to tack, as we were
now travelling straight towards a beach at about 8 knots with the dinghy, which
was now upside down, bobbing along behind us. All I could do then was yell
“F…..g man overboard, crew”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Leanne, alerted to the urgency of the situation took the helm and
fired up the motors, Clinton helped me winch the traveller over and around went
Easy Tiger. We managed to furl the head sail to slow the boat. Once we were
slowed, Clinton and I hauled the dinghy in and managed to get it back into
position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We motored gingerly the last couple of miles to Tangalooma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bree and Clinton were keen divers. As we arrived, they had their
scuba gear on and jumped in. They hadn’t been gone long, when Bree surfaced and
was yelling for help. Without further ado, Leanne and I dropped the dinghy and
jumped in. Amazingly the dinghy motor started and we raced off to help our
daughter who was finding the current too strong.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In our haste to get to her aid, Leanne and I had jumped into the
opposite side for operating the dinghy. I was wondering why the throttle controller
seemed quite awkward, even though I could only use my fingertips.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Bree grabbed the front of the dinghy as we got to her, but thinking I
was reducing the revs, I gave it full power and we lurched forward, going
straight over the top of our beloved daughter. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Leanne was screaming, I was shouting and fortunately, behind us Bree
bobbed up all ok and was soon shouting as well. Then, Clinton surfaced and began shouting at
Bree for not letting him know she was going to the surface, and Bree was
shouting at him for shouting at her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We got the two shouting divers back to Easy Tiger and again set off
in the dinghy, this time the right way around. We needed to practice. We went
to have a look at the wrecks, but got too close. A wave picked up the dinghy
and as it went through, the dinghy crashed down onto part of the wreck,
temporarily stranding us on the barnacle infested rusty steel hulk. Now we were
shouting at each other again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Another wave came through and picked us up, so while there was water
underneath us I gunned the engine and we reversed away from the obstacle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Leanne demanded to be taken to shore, She had to get on some dry
land to sit and think. I put the dinghy into gear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As the dinghy started to go forward the whole thing started shaking
violently. We shook and shuddered our way to shore with Leanne shouting at me
that we had managed to wreck our new dinghy in one day. She had me convinced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At shore while Leanne went for some personal time in the shade, I
inspected the dinghy. I found the painter, or the rope that we tie the dinghy
to Easy Tiger with, which of course was blue, was too long. It had gone right
under the dinghy and wrapped itself around the propeller, causing the awful
vibration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Luckily for my sail in aspirations, the rest of the week was a delight. We really took to boat ownership
from then on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We do look back at our first Tangalooma trip with fond memories
of the “learning experiences” we had those first 2 days.</span>That being, rope burns really hurt, you can't stand on water, you
shouldn't have all your ropes the same colour and it is actually really hard to
kill a dinghy.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We have had a few hiccups and “happenings” since then, one in
particular that we are going the gold coast next week to have repaired.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When Leanne insisted that we go back to Tangalooma again this week, I was
understandably a little cautious. Fortunately our trip was event free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">12<sup>th</sup> January 2016<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Best Wishes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I think Christmas and new years compliments, greetings and best
wishes for the new year are just about done. It’s now the 12<sup>th</sup> of
January so I think it’s time to dispense with the seasons greetings. If there
is possibly anyone we missed during the festive season, then happy new-year and
best wishes to you too. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Thinking of all the best wishes that we received and that we sent for the
new-year, got me thinking. What if we were actually granted three wishes for
our sailing around Australia adventure? What would we use them for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am pretty sure that we would wish for good health first and
foremost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We have kept very good health on our sailing adventure so far,
except Leanne has been suffering from very dry eyes for the last six months.
Her eyes are most affected by wind and bright light so sailing hasn’t been a
whole lot of fun for her. She has been having treatment while we’ve been based
in Brisbane, so hopefully the problem will soon be fixed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We also would extend the wish of health to our family and loved
ones. 2015 had us feeling very blessed we are ok. Sadly, a much loved extended
family member was struck down with motor neuron disease, another had open heart
surgery (at 80 years of age), my dad lost all independence courtesy of another
stroke and my mum has been suffering a debilitating liver problem.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Even our sailing buddies have had a horrible cancer scare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">These loved ones had a terrible year. Proof that no one really knows
when health issues will strike. Without sounding uncaring, Leanne and I use
these peoples health issues as sort of motivation. If we had sat back and
waited for the “right” time or until we were ready to retire, we may not have
been physically able to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The second wish is that we have enough money to continue our sailing
adventure for another year. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Money, for me, is like oxygen, you can’t do much without it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The end of 2015 has seen share market woes and a lot of investments
and therefore peoples incomes knocked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Almost
all the fellow sailors we have met along the way are retired and about 5 to 7
years older than us with many relying on their super for income.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope things are ok for all of them, if we
were the only ones out there it wouldn't be as enjoyable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We rely on rent income that is contracted for another year and
dividends from a business we are partners in. I can read the writing on the
wall and can see our business finding the going pretty tough this year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Leanne and I are fit and healthy and
quite capable of doing a lot of different things, so if it comes to that we
will go and get wwww……k. (the W word is unmentionable on board Easy Tiger). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The third wish I would use is all about enjoying the moment. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There is no doubt that we are restless souls. We want to experience
a number of things before our time is up, but there is a saying, “The past is
gone, the future hasn’t happened yet, so be in the present”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It is so easy to get caught up in wondering where we will be at the
end of the year, or where we will live once we are done sailing, or who we are
going to sail with next month, that we actually miss the interesting things and
the opportunity right where we are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For example, had the weather allowed us to use Bundaberg as an
overnight stop only, as we intended, we would have missed the turtle centre at
Mon Repos. That turned out to be a real highlight. It was where we saw huge
loggerhead turtles crawl up the sand to lay their eggs on the exact same beach
where they hatched twenty or more years before.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I must say it is also hard not to feel a bit, well, guilty, to be living
our fantastic adventure as our friends and family work through the hardship of
fly in fly out jobs, suffer <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>job also financial loss.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We do realize that we can’t control others fortunes though and if we
were at home with 9-5 jobs, our friends and family would still have there ups
and downs no matter how much we wished they didn’t have to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">So with the festive season done, this week we will take down the
Christmas lights, dust off our sails and head out into the wide blue yonder
once more. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We are hopeful of health wealth and content, but more importantly we
want to inspire all to throw caution to the wind, get up, get out and stop
dreaming, start doing, because you will never know what’s around the corner. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-10666791488897403052015-12-12T20:13:00.001-08:002015-12-12T20:13:34.302-08:00Sailing Around Australia; Year 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">East Coast Marina, Manly, Brisbane.</span></div>
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The Second year of our sailing adventure, began in Adelaide.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JANUARY - New Years eve at Port Vincent South Australia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MARCH - Refuge Cove, Wilsons Promontory</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MARCH - APRIL = Lakes Entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MARCH -APRIL = Easter at Paynesville</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MAY = Cronulla, Sydney</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MAY = Sydney Harbour<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JUNE = Hawkesbury River</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JUNE = Forster Tun curry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JUNE = Camden Haven</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JUNE = Iluka Yamba</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JUNE = Iluka Iamb</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">JULY = Pulled out of the water at the Gold Coast<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">SEPTEMBER = Gloucester Passage Whitsundays. Northern most point so far.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">DECEMBER = Tipplers Passage and Moreton Bay</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">13/12/2015 Routine Change.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It does seem a bit crazy to me that we have really enjoyed our
sailing adventures being “parked” for the last week.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The crazy part is that our normal routine for the past 2 years has
been anything but normal and really has only small parts that could be
considered routine.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our sailing adventure routine is all about the weather, what the
weather is doing, what the weather is predicted to do and what the weather
might do. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once we are reasonably comfortable that we know what weather to
expect, it’s on to planning our next destination, calculating departure points
thinking about the route and determining the best anchorage point. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then we are usually looking in to a plan B. Then I have breakfast. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once we are anchored somewhere we have anchor alarms set, keep a
close eye on the wind direction and strength and most of all watch out for
other boats in case they anchor too close or if they drift towards us.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We are also constantly checking that our anchor is holding and
keeping an eye on our surroundings as the boat swings around while tides and
currents change.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">All this constant vigilance probably doesn’t sound much, but it is
really the most important part of our daily sailing adventures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would say the constant vigilance is really
the most routine that we have. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Christmas, New Year and the festive season is the time that most
people get a break from their routine. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We thought that this would be a good time to have Easy Tiger secured
in a marina. Normally I don’t favour using marinas as there is a cost involved,
plus it means too much easy access to shops, cafes and other “treats” that
whack our budget.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Being tied securely to a marina berth means that we can also break
our routine. We don’t have to watch the weather, we don’t have to look for
secure, protected anchorages and we don’t have to watch out for other boats. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Since parking Easy Tiger in the marina, Brisbane has turned on some
pretty inclement weather, including a couple of thunderstorms. This would have
called for extra vigilance if we were anchored somewhere and also would have
meant we would be very reluctant to get off the boat for excursions. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">It was a huge relief that we were in the marina during this weather,
even though it’s meant we are a bit boat bound.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Already</span> we have started a routine of exercise in the
mornings then chores, then lunch and every day so far we have been socializing
in the afternoons or evenings.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At the moment we are both feeling a bit refreshed from the change in
routine being “parked” has given us. I don’t think I have logged on to weather
sites more than once this week and that is normally three times a day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">With family coming for Christmas, friends for new year and then a
trip back to WA planned in the next few months, I don’t think we will have time
to get into a routine.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Watching out for approaching Storms</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Keeping an eye on where other boats are anchoring</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Making sure that the boat is still where you anchored it; these are all art of the cruising sailors routine.</td></tr>
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<!--EndFragment-->Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-26943956744846476442015-12-03T20:00:00.000-08:002015-12-03T20:00:35.376-08:00Sailing Around Australia; Easy Tiger and the Seven Anchorings<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Tipplers Passage, Gold Coast, Queensland</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">4/12/2014<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Easy Tiger and the
Seven Anchorings</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I guess we were due. Having been on our sailing adventure for 2 full
years now, we have anchored at least a hundred and fifty times. A hundred and
thirty times we have got it right, held tight and slept well all night.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Normally you position the boat, drop the anchor down and let out
enough “rode” or in our case 10mm chain, to hold the boat in the position where
you “parked it”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some times in places
like Duke of Orleans and on South Australia’s weedy west coast we had the
occasional anchor drag. An anchor drag means that if the wind or water current
or sometimes both contain enough force, they can dislodge the anchor and carry
the boat off to an often undesired location like the beach, the rocks or up
against another boat.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This has only happened a few times to us, but yesterday we had to
reset our anchor seven times.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Following a couple of days in the Coomera River, we had motored back
to Tipplers resort, to prepare for a change in the weather to strong
Southerlies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We found what looked like a suitable spot, went through our anchor
routine, had our dinner and went to bed, to get an early night. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">By early next morning we had pretty strong winds from the south as
predicted. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ANCHOR MOVE No 1. = We woke in the morning and in our still <b>SLEEPY</b>
state, found the boat was creeping down the channel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Up anchor and moved back to the original
spot, reset the anchor and let plenty of chain out.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ANCHOR MOVE No 2<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>= After
sitting and waiting and watching for an hour or so, and feeling <b>HAPPY</b> with our
reset anchor, we sat down and had breakfast. While going through our morning
routine Easy Tiger again began drifting down the channel. UP the anchor and
back to the original spot, reset and let heaps of chain out.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ANCHOR MOVE No 3 = OK so it might have been a bit <b>DOPEY</b> to put the
anchor back in the same place that we have twice had it pull out of. This was
made very clear as not long after we re-set it, it pulled out and off we went
again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ANCHOR MOVE No 4 = By now we are both getting a bit <b>GRUMPY</b>. We
figured that our selected spot is not good holding for our anchor type. This
time we relocated to a spot further down the channel near the pontoons for
Tipplers Resort. We reset the anchor in 5 metres of water and let out 45 metres
of chain. We sit and watch it for 2 hours and all seems good. The wind picks up
to over 30 knots and the tide changes. We start drifting…again.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ANCHOR MOVE No 5 =<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are now
very <b>BASHFUL</b> as we drift past a couple of houseboats who have far more windage
than us and are skippered by amateurs, but are hold their anchors well. We
motor back past them , reset our anchor and let out fifty metres of chain. As
we sit and watch our anchor alarm app, our chart plotter and our visual
landmarks, it was not long before we see that we are creeping backwards.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ANCHOR MOVE No 6 =<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We again
motor up to the houseboats and drop anchor this time very close to them. In
fact we were that close, it was lucky we were not <b>SNEEZY</b> as they would have
caught a cold. A bit close for comfort, but we must have had a premonition that
we wouldn’t be there long. Sure enough it came true. Off we drifted down stream
in the gushing tide.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">ANCHOR MOVE No7 =<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was now
time to start thinking like a <b>DOC</b>. Assess the situation, diagnose the cause and
prescribe a remedy. I looked up stream and saw a boat anchored about a mile
away. We consulted the book and the decision was made. We motored around to the
”dux” anchorage and dropped anchor, let out 55 metres of chain and waited. We
set our anchor alarms and had our chart plotter set for alarm at the slightest
movement. After three hours in the same spot we figured we had it right this
time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Finally fell into bed nervously, got up three or four times to check
that we were still where we thought we were. Got up this morning and voila…
still in the same spot.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After plenty of anchoring practice yesterday, we are actually
looking forward to the confines of a marina, where we can take a break from
being at the mercy of mother nature, the weather gods and the anchor alarm for
a while.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">28/11/2015 The Alphabet of Boat Names</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Sitting at Tipplers passage near the Gold Coast on a quiet day
watching a few hundred other water craft of all sorts (mainly pesky jet skis
and houseboat loads of “schoolies”) go by, I have been thinking about all the
different types, makes and models of boats that we have seen on our sailing
around Australia adventures.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Then I started thinking of all the boats and boat names that we have
either sailed with, shared anchorages with or just merely passed by. So I set myself
the challenge t recall a boat name for each letter of the alphabet. Here’s what
I came up with;</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Acropora</b> (met Peter and Cath in Bundaberg)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">B -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bossa Nova</b> (our fellow fusioneers, Neville and Amanda)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">C – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Chances</b> (Gary and
Anne, at Garry’s Anchorage)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">D - Doh!!! Don’t know one starting with D</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">E – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Easy Tiger</b> ( that’s
us)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">F <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">– Fayze 2</b> (We met Fud
and Faye in Esperance)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">H– <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">SHiraz </b>(OK! a point
off cos it’s the second letter! Met Stephen and Sharon in Portland) </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">G – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Great Sandy</b> (Never
met these people but we have constantly crossed paths in Sydney and Sandy
Straits etc…)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It’s Great</b> (Met Tom in Bundaberg)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">J –<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jamais Plus</b> (ok haven’t crossed their path but know Ken and Susan)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">K - <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Skellum </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(OK! points off here cos it’s the second
letter in Paul and Shani’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cat)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">L – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lettin Go</b> ( didn’t
meet these people but crossed paths a lot in Whitsunday’s)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">M<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Madhatter</b> 2 ( Phil and Leanne, mates from Paynesville)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">N – Nope, can’t think of one for N.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">O – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ohmless</b> – (We met
fellow fusion owners Mike and Chrissy way back)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">P – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Purrfection</b> (the
first Catamaran we ever sailed on)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Q– <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aqualibrium</b> (Yeah, I
know 2<sup>nd</sup> letter again. Met Gerry in Paynesville and Whitsundays)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">R – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Reef Magic</b> (this is
the boat our daughter works on out of Cairns).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">S – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sapphire</b> -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Met Richard, Isabelle, Robbie and Rebecca in
Robe)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">T – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">One White Tree</b> – (Met
Ray in Sydney. Ok, PART of this unusual name begins with T)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">U – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Urchin</b> ( Brian (b1)
and Maree are a third of our bight crossing trio.)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">V – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">la Vida</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- (Parked next to a very big boat named this,
right now).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">W –<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Water Music</b> (Met Nick
and Sue at Garry’s Anchorage)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Z – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Zofia</b> – (Brian b2 and
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<span lang="EN-US">There you go. That filled in a few hours. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With a hundred or so other water craft...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Including the odd Aeroplane???</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A bit of fun watching this guy trying to land amongst the hundred or so big boats, the jet skis and dinghies all racing around.</td></tr>
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Easytigerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02487884833896417463noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502036226038898432.post-27704104606898605602015-11-23T15:45:00.000-08:002015-11-23T15:45:26.348-08:00Sailing Around Australia; The Common Thread<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Mooloolaba, QLD</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Having a boat brought us into a whole new world of experiences and
friendships starting with a trip to Quindalup with Wayne and April. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Somewhere we came across a saying that says people will come into
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stories and experiences, some have lasted as long as we were in port, some have
lasted as long as the passage to the next destination and a few have and will
last many years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">If you said to me just 4 years ago that I would set off across the
Great Australian bight on my own catamaran with just me and Leanne on board, I
would have laughed it off. If you then said that I would be in company of a
Crime Analyst and a Nurse on their boat and another couple who did phone app
design on another boat and all had about the same sailing experience, I would
of said that was a crazy proposition. But, we did it. Sharing that crazy
adventure formed a real bond that will endure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">From the day we departed Mandurah WA in 2013, we met marine business
operators in Esperance, farmers and council CEO’s in Bremer bay, an engineer
and a lawyer taking a gap year at Robe. It seems each and every stop on our
journey has brought us not only a variation in environment and scenery, but
also someone with a different background and story to tell.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Our sailing “family” have had different experiences, challenges,
excitement and entertainment since. One has had a major health scare and fortunately
is now in recovery and the others had a 20month lay over, getting their
adventure underway again last week.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Most people say that they can count true long term friendships in
their life on one hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leanne and I
were the same. Luckily, we have our close friendships with our “lifers”, Stacey
and Ian, April and Wayne back home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">During our sailing adventure we found that our new bonds have been
found in the simplest of ways. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Something as simple as putting our phone number on the side of our
boat brought us a fireman and a dental hygienist in Adelaide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our instant rapport has developed a
friendship that we consider will be a lasting treasure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At the Gipplsand Lakes we were introduced by others to a Police
Sergeant and his partner, who are preparing to embark on their own sailing
adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Most recently, the simple common thread of having the same make and
model of boat has revealed another valued friendship. We have spent nearly six
months in company with the Bossa Nova crew, quite un-expectantly yet very
enjoyably. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">For the money we spent on our catamaran, we could have bought 1 or 2
investment properties, or tucked a very tidy sum away into superannuation.
Financially we would have been far better off.
Little did we know that the common thread of boating and sailing
adventures would produce such an invaluable benefit in these new friendships.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> Stacey and Ian, "Lifers"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wayne and April, same.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our sailing family</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sulls and Sues connected by having our phone number on the side of the boat.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Phil Chappell and Leanne Clingan were introduced to us by Brian and Eva</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A fusion of fusions, and a fusion of friends Neville and Amanda, the Bossa Nova crew.</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">16/11/2105 Crab Adventures<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two craving novices set off in dinghy with 3 new crab nets</td></tr>
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<span lang="EN-US">While returning through the Great Sandy Straits, We have anchored Easy
Tiger at Garry’s Anchorage once more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This is where I was attacked by sand flies during our trip north.
Back then I vowed never to stay at Garry’s anchorage again. Garry could have it
all to himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Well, you know what happens when you vow never to do something
again? You do it again. After leaving Bundaberg there really isn’t another
anchorage that will protect us from South East winds. So the weather gods must
be rolling around the floor laughing at us, because just as we were about to go
past the dreaded Garry’s Anchorage they turned the winds to the south
east.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Fortunately I am prepared. Before I go outdoors I apply with a layer
of moisturiser, a layer of baby oil laced with tea tree oil and some
antihistamine mild anaesthetic cream, plus a light spray of Aerogard. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This preparation has meant I get strange looks
from other humans who question my bathing practices, but has limited sand
fly attacks and mosquito bites to about a dozen so far.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">During our stay in Bundaberg, we noticed the local boat supplies
store had crab nets on sale. We could get 3 Crab nets for $50. It was tempting.
We had crab nets on the boat from Mandurah right around to Kangaroo Island,
South Australia. We had caught good numbers in Streaky Bay of blue manna (blue
swimmers) and a few sand crabs at Kangaroo Island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But alas, the nets don’t last long, and they were becoming more rust
than crab pot and leaving annoying, hard to remove stains wherever they rested
on Easy Tiger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I had enjoyed catching blue swimmer crabs since I met Leanne. Not being much of a fisherman, mainly through lack of
experience and also through a lack of patience and coordination, I found
crabbing a lot more enjoyable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In the early days of our
courtship, I learnt the enjoyment of crabbing by going out with Leanne’s dad, Geoff in his tinnie. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Usually this involved an early morning start. Geoff would back the
trailer into the water and then I would wade in till I was waist deep, to
release the boat off the trailer. I would then drag the dinghy over to the
jetty for Geoff to step in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Geoff would then drive the dinghy to the secret spot, issuing
instructions along about how to handle as the slimy slippery bait, and how to tie it into
the ten or so nets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Once at the secret spot, along with the ten or so other boats, next task was to drop the nets into the water. There is a proper way to throw them in. Judging
from the exasperated expressions from Geoff, I threw the nets in the wrong way. You are supposed to make sure they land away from the dinghy (so
that you don’t get the net or the attached rope and float wrapped around the
propeller. It’s really hard to get off and usually wrecks the crab net, ask me how I know!). Also
you need them to land on the ocean floor flat or you don’t catch too many crabs.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After getting the nets into the water (and repairing 2) we waited a
half an hour or so and then Geoff drove the boat over to the first net, issuing
instructions on how to pull the nets up. By the time we had pulled all the nets
up, I just about had the knack for it. Luckily for the crabs, quite a few good
ones got away while I was mastering the art of pulling the nets up and into the
boat quickly and in a smooth motion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Second, third and fourth time around to each net and I was just about
good at pulling the nets up and Geoff was getting much better at the
instructions which were coming through a lot louder and more descriptive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Somehow though we managed to catch a dozen or so sized and legal
crabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Sitting up the front of the boat crashing through the waves all the way back to the jetty, saw me drenched to the bone.</span> Again I plunged in again up to my nether regions to get the boat on to the
trailer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">On arrival back at the Giles residence I washed down the boat while
Geoff boiled the crabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the feeding
frenzy began. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Giles family can mow down a dozen crabs in a matter of minutes.
While I fiddle farted around trying to extract teaspoon size portions of meat
from the tough shell, the sound like a tree loppers mulching machine echoed
around the table, as crab parts were drained of their offerings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Now, looking at the crab pot sale in Bundaberg, those memories came
back to me. However, the hunter in me rose to the surface.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lets go crabbing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After arriving in Garry’s anchorage, I got out the nets and we
studied them carefully. The Queensland government restrictions and laws
regarding crab nets are vastly different form Western Australia. The nets are
quite different, but seem quite a lot more robust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it took a bit of getting our head around
how to put the bait in and then how to get the crabs out should we catch some.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Neville and Amanda had stored the bait on Bossa Nova. It was a
Mackerel Tuna that Leanne had caught a few days before. Perfect crab bait. The
girls decided that crabbing was mans work, so Neville and I headed out in Easy
tiger’s dinghy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I sort of thought that if I was a crab, I would hang around the mangroves,
rather than open water, so that’s where we headed. There are small mangrove
“islands” at Garry’s anchorage, so we dropped our pots on the outer side of the
first Island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I am not sure if it just didn’t feel like the right spot, or the fact
that the crab pot was only half covered with water, that made us decide to try
another spot. Second place seemed the right one and we left the pots there to
settle in for the night. Plus, at low tide we could not get back there anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Next morning we set off at high tide full of anticipation. The first
pot we pulled up had four crabs in it, two looking like a good size. We then
had to tip the pot upside down and shake vigorously to get the crabs into our
bucket. Unfortunately for Neville they fell out of the pot OK but landed in the
bottom of the dinghy very close to his feet. While the crabs dashed for cover,
Neville’s feet dashed for higher ground. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">After much scrambling around I got them into the bucket. Alas only 2
were keepers. One mud crab was just on size and the other was a blue swimmer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Unfortunately we couldn’t find the third pot, so the report back
to the girls was that we had caught an edible crab and lost one crab pot. Not
really a successful day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">At low tide we went off again in search of our third pot. We found
it tangled in the roots of a mangrove tree. After untying the rope we pulled up
the pot and voila…the mother load.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">5 good sized mudcrabs were gorging themselves on the little bit of
bait left in the bottom of the crab net. Again hysterics were had as we tried
to pick up angry mud crabs that were scrambling around in the bottom of the
dinghy. After tossing the females back were were left with three good sized
crabs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This mornings harvest yielded another one. So this afternoon the
four of us had a mud crab feast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Neville commented that $50 for 3 crab pots, the $55 for
the bag to keep them in and the bit of fuel and bait was well worth it for
entertainment value alone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">But, that was before he ate the fresh, just cooked, melt in your
mouth steamed mud crab.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ones with only one claw are far easier to handle.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sitting quietly in the bucket, until they see you.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The claws are a meal in them selves.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lesson learned. Tongs are not really great tools for wrangling mud crabs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Who's got who here?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The two crab novices with the results on the board...well the counter</td></tr>
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