Pantomime, Moody 35 ft Sydney to Airlie Beach QLD

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Thursday, 17 June 2021 0645 Hrs

Leave Shoal Bay with a 20 Kt Westerly to assist us up the Coast to some warmer weather, all good on board after a pleasant night with a warming Japanese Chicken curry prepared for us by Amy. Well done yum.

Wednesday 16^th June, 2021, 1300 Hrs

32 43 S, 152 10 E, Public mooring, Shoal Bay, Port Stephens, A pleasant but chilli motor up from Sydney to wait out an afternoon / morning Northerly to blow through.

Tuesday 15^th June, 2021, 1715 Hrs,

Leaving CYCA for Airlie Beach QLD

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Saturday, 12 February 2022, 1400 Hrs

34 07 S, 132 59 E, Just a sniff of internet so a quick update. The wind is dropping off so now we a giving the new “Screecher” a go (asymmetrical)

0800 Hrs

34 15 S, 133 36 E, 130 Nm due South of Ceduna SA. Starting to make good progress with a nice sunny morning giving us a pleasant 2 sail reach. The wind is expected to ease through the day so planning to increase sail area as the day progresses.

Friday, 28 January 2022

The WA border continues to cause problems for our plans. Unfortunately its looking unlikely that we can stop in WA on our way overseas which means we could be offshore and isolating for up to 45 or more days. Thank you very much Ashleigh for your assistance in getting us at least this far and I fully understand that your first big ocean trip should not be of such an unknown and long duration. Hopefully these restrictions will improve some time and you will be able to join us again in the future.

Sunday, 23 January 2022, 0900 Hrs

Arrived CYCSA Part one done!  Beer O’clock after a bit of a clean up. Thank you Russel for your help to SA. All well on board.

Saturday, 22 January 2022, 1130 Hrs

36 03 S, 138 41 E, South of Backstairs Passage by around 40 Nm, expecting to be in Adelaide around lunchtime Sunday. Fantastic to be out of Bass Strait, its amazing the difference with the seas and therefore comfort once into SA waters. Busy now trying to work out logistics since that clown of a premier in WA decided to shut out fully vaccinated travelers indefinitely. Will update planned timings etc as plans evolve. All well on board.

Thursday, 20 January 2022, 1600 Hrs

38 27 S, 141 44 E, Just 10 Nm South of Portland but we aint stopping. Wind is around 25 kts from the east and forecast to stay pretty much the same for the next few days so should be good to continue on straight to Adelaide. Looking forward to start heading north again in a couple of hours as its been fairly cold despite the sunny last few days. All is well on board.

Wednesday, 19 January 2022, 1400 Hrs

39 03 S, 144 41 E, Half way between Wilson’s Promontory and Cape Otway and making good progress after the last 2 days. An easterly of 25-30 Kts certainly helps on a westerly course. All is well but with the seas building its time to bring out the pre-prepared shepherds Pie for dinner tonight and save the crew some preparation. Thanks Dinah, looking forward to enjoying it later.

Tuesday, 18 January 2022, 1500 Hrs

38 59 S, 146 30 E, Around 4 Nm NE of Sealers Cove where we will be waiting a couple of hours for a predicted easterly change this evening. The plan is make the most of it and hopefully go all the way through to SA over the next 4 or so days. Glad to have the last 24 hrs behind us as its been a slow bumpy passage across the first half of Bass Strait. Reception may be intermittent until we close land again on the western side of Victoria.

Monday, 17 January 2022, 1600 Hours

38 10 S, 147 48 E, closing in on the coast and the wind is easing. Hopefully the seas will follow suit so we can make some southing whilst the SW wind blows through.

1200 Hrs

38 30 S, 148 14 E, Just entered the Bass Strait oil Fields as the SW came in. Now Heading due west on the best windward angle we can make. The coast should give a bit of shelter from the wind and waves but I expect it will be a bumpy ride for several hours yet. All is fine.

Sunday, 16 January 2022, 1800 Hrs

37 35 S, 149 56 E, Gabo Island, Entering Bass Strait with variable winds and calm conditions. Unfortunately there is only around 18 hours before a West to SW change is forecast. Hopefully it wont be more than 20 Kts but that will be enough to slow our progress. It should turn around after 18 plus hours but if we didn’t get off the east coast we could have been waiting another 3 days. Burning fuel but this is no place to be hanging around.

1130 Hrs

Leaving anchorage at Boydtown, Eden. Tsunami warning overnight had us on anchor / weather watch in case NZ or somewhere else reported significant waves. All we had was a short burst of a 1 meter swell come through at around 0530 Hrs which could be seen crashing on the normally sheltered beach. Thank you very much Dinah for keeping a weather watch from shore every 1.5 Hrs to advise of anything significant occurring.

Saturday, 15 January 2022, 1200 Hrs

36 35 S, 150 12 E, 30 Nm North of Eden. A SW wind coming through overnight so we will be anchoring for the evening and expect to be able to move on again Sunday and get a fair way through the Strailt before another forecast front will slow us down for a while. Hopefully the following Easterly winds will be as forecast as then it gives us a good run through the rest of the Strait. All well on board.

January,  2022, 1100 Hrs

At the Shell Harbour Marina fuel dock awaiting a top up before heading off as far south and west as we can over the next week. Will start updating this page more frequently now that we are underway.

Beneteau 47.7 “Imagination

Gold Coast City Marina to Sydney

Commencing Friday August 23 to 27th

Monday, 16 December 2019, 1030 Hrs

Bermagui Fishermans dock. Damn engines, dirty fuel I suspect, needed a tow from VMR into the entrance of the Harbour as unable to prime the fuel after changing the filters at sea. Despite all the fuel set and diesel additive the southerly must have rocked us around too much last night then everything went to sh*@

Sunday, 15 December 2019, 1000 Hrs

35 06 S, 151 00 E, 10 Nm East of Point Perpendicular, All well under motor as we adjust to new sleep patterns and minimal winds.

Saturday, 14 December 2019, 1815 Hrs

Leave CYCA Rushcutters Bay

Friday, 13 December 2019, CYCA Rushcutters Bay

1200 Hrs, Leaving RMYC after fueling up heading for Sydney

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Friday February 7, 2020 1830 hrs,
Westernport Marina, thank you so much Tully and Terry. Phew great work.

February 6th, 2020
38 37 S, 147 42 E, Approximately 35 Nm East of Port Albert and 70 Nm from Wilsons Promontory. Currently a light easterly assisting as we continue to motor sail. We have now changed the primary fuel filter for the third time (damn messy job) and it seems around every 15 or less hours it needs to be done, hopefully we wont need to change the secound filter as I dont think we will be able to do this ourselves as priming the injectors will be a problem. Will update on reception at Wilsons Promontory tomorrow morning.
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Wednesday, 5 February 2020, 1200 Hrs
37 43 S, 149 43 E, Passed Malacoota and now into Bass Strait. We had to do our first fuel filter change at around 4 am after only motoring for 12 hours hopefully the sea will calm a bit more today to let the fuel settle a bit.
Tuesday, 4 February 2020, 1730 Hrs
Leaving Bermagui, Provisioned up in a local country town that has been very affected by local bushfires and lack of holiday trade.Updates by around midday daily from now

27 November 2020, 1400 Hrs

34 46 S, 150 55 E, Starting to have the northerly fill in now so getting bumpy but not slowing us too much yet. Intending to stop briefly at the CYCA in the early hours of the morning to drop stuff off and collect the owners and their family. Hoping to be away again by 7 am to beat the northerlies filling back in again after an overnight lull. Around 70 Nm to Sydney will update in the morning.

0630 Hrs

35 21 S, 150 45 E, Around 15 Nm south of Point Perpendicular (Jervis Bay) Frustratingly slow progress as the southerly only lasted around 10 hours so it wasn’t enough to get us past the strong southerly current in this area. ETA has now extended out to Saturday morning in Sydney as with Northerlies forecast this afternoon and remaining strong over the weekend. Unsure of the ETA in Pittwater now. Oh well! Peter and Sania I will call you later in the day to discuss options for meeting this weekend

26 November 2020, 1230 Hrs

36 38 S, 150 03 E 5 Nm North of Tathra, with a southerly just arriving. Hopefully this will take us past Jervis Bay overnight and we wont need to worry about the strong currents in that area. All well after changing the primary fuel filter a few hours ago. Update will probably be tomorrow morning as hand steering will keep us busy overnight.

0500 Hrs

Underway from Eden, still a bit of northerly about with a southerly predicted around midday. All well despite the early start.

25 November 2020, 1000 Hrs

Eden Jetty

0800 Hrs

37 09 S, 150 04 E, with a 25 Kt Northerly forecast for the rest of the day we are heading into Eden to top up fuel and wait until the early morning before getting back underway ahead of a Southerly change predicted. Further updates upon arrival and leaving.

0300 Hrs

37 33 S, 150 00 E, Gabo Island is 4 Nm to our west! Yea Ha NSW again. Updates later in the day. All is well

23 November 2020 0230 Hrs

41 29 S, 148 24 E, 12 Nm South of St Helens Point. Reception will be fading shortly so updates will not be happening until we approach Gabo Island in 240 Nm approximately 48 Hrs. Forecast is looking good with a light Southerly currently expecting to build to 20-25 Kts over the next 2 days. All is well on board. Will be in touch from Gabo

22 November 2020,1900 Hrs

Happy hour off 🍷 Wine Glass Bay

1300 Hrs

42 23 S, 148 17 E, Around 3Nm South of Schouten Island. Updating now in case there is no further phone reception up the Tasmanian coast. Will try to update when passing St Helens in around 15 Hrs but if we haven’t any reception at the time it could be around 3 days before Gabo Island where regular communications are restored. All well with light headwinds however we are expecting some southerlies to arrive late this evening to send us across the Strait

0815 Hrs

Leaving Triabunna. Will update later in the day depending on phone reception. Big thanks to Dinah for helping to get us this far !

20 November 2020, 2000 Hrs

Arrived Triabunna. The plan was to head to either Port Arthur, back to Nubeena or head on through Denison Canal, Dunelly depending on the wind, sea conditions and timing. The wind and sea did get up to the 30 plus knots predicted and with good speed easily made the high tide at Denison Canal so on we went. Quite pleasant sailing conditions once through Marion Narrows

Photo by Dinah

0700 Hrs

Leaving Kettering for “destination TBA”

18 November2020, 1845 Hrs

Arrived at Oyster Cove Marina

1415 Hrs

Leaving Nubeena Jetty, heading for Oyster Cove Marina, Kettering to provision and prepare the boat for the trip to Sydney