Sydney to The Gold Coast
Oceanis 331 “Cannonball”
Commencing Thursday October 10, 2024
Position Report and other info UTC (+11 Hrs Sydney Time)
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Thursday, 17 October 2024, 1500 Hrs
Arrived Bayview Harbour Marina. A huge thank you to Dinah for her assistance on this trip and lets not forget our shore contact Suzie for keeping an eye on our progress from start to finish. Much appreciated.
1100 Hrs
28 11 S, 153 36 E, We have just pased Danger Reefs about 2 Nm East of the Tweed River. Looks like it will be bang on low tide for the Southport Bar. Dead flat out here and a very shallow keel on “Cannonball” so no problems there. Expecting to be tying up at around 3pm Sydney time. Update again after arrival.
Wednesday, 16 October 2024‘ 1100 Hrs.
29 56 S, 153 29 E. That”s around 10 Nm SE of Yamba. Currently under engine which looks like it will be the case until arrival in the Gold Coast.Now in variable winds but had a good afternoon until early morning of a southerly. There is a bit of current against us but hope to be in Southport in the early afternoon of tomorrow all going well. Unfortunately with big tides currently that will be on a very low tide but will deal with that on arrival. The seas are going to be below one meter so the Seaway should be no problems on crossing. Update again tomorrow.
Tuesday, 15 October 2024, 1100 Hrs
31 15 S, 153 02 E, Currently 10 Nm South of Korogoro Pt (near Crowdy Head, Trial Bay) The Southerly started to build from around 2am this morning and is now around 15 Kts making pleasant sailing. The sea state is building so its back to hand steering as the autopilot starts to struggle as with the first night. This wind is expected to start dying off around sunset so the plan is to top up fuel in Coffs Harbour briefly as the remainder of the trip could be quite light.Sorry for the lack of an update yesterday but motored around Sugarloaf Pt (Seal Rocks) and most of the way until the early hour of today. Update again around lunchtime tomorrow. All is well.
Monday, 14 October 2024, 0730 Hrs
Leaving the mooring, Shoal Bay.
Sunday, 13 October 2024, 1300 Hrs
A good meal and caught up on sleep. A NE wind is building for today but should be moving more to the North overnight and dropping off close to the coast early Monday morning. Anyway the plan is for another early start in the morning, motoring close to the coast until the next southerly starts to come in be Tuesday. Hoping this Southerly does hold all the way up the coast like the last one was initially forecast to but didn’t. Will update on leaving.
Much nicer weather today
Saturday, 12 October 2024,1600 Hrs
Moored in Shoal Bay Port Stephens, will update tomorrow, food and sleep time!
1230 Hrs
32 51 S, 152 06 E, 9 Nm South of Port Stephens. Everything going to plan until a few minutes ago whilst I was checking weather updates Dinah was hit by one of those Very Significant waves which came in beam on. All is fine on-board however with the updated forecast showing this current southerly will not be abating until Sunday we figure its not worth meeting another rouge like that overnight. So port Stephens for a night, possibly longer whilst this wind and sea blows through. Update when moored this afternoon.
Friday, 11 October 2024, 1300 Hrs
Moored in Coasters Retreat, Pittwater for a couple of hours only. A twenty knot NE is currently blowing offshore but that is expected to blow through by 2200 Hrs tonight with a southerly following coming through early morning. We are expecting to drop the mooring tonight and hopefully shoot up the coast before anything strong builds from the North again.
0800 Hrs
Left the Fuel dock in Rushcutters Bay.
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 1700 Hrs
All Provisioned and prepared, planning an early start to Pittwater tomorrow morning before the NE winds come in in the early afternoon. Forecast looks good for a southerly early Saturday Morning to resume again.
Emergency Contact for this delivery
Suzy Brown +61 (0) 421 658 413
