Cape Grenville to Escape River
The next days sail saw us up anchor and head to Escape River 71 nautical miles North. Escape River is a nice quite river with pearl farm based on Turtle Head Island.
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Night Island to Cape Grenville
A nice 83 nautical mile sail. We stick to the shipping routes to avoid the numerous reefs, this means keeping a lookout for ships, the easiest way is using AIS. The shipping routes are quite busy and we pass several ships daily. The Trinity Bay services Thursday Island and Seisia on Cape York twice a […]
Lizard Island to Pipon Island, then Princess Charlotte Bay
The next stop was a small island east of Cape Bathurst. We anchored in rising winds, with the gauge registering 30 knots. The night was a very windy night. The forecast was for increasing winds so we decided to take a day off and play it safe. As we raised the anchor to head for […]
Cape Flattery to Lizard Island
We had a nice sail from Cape Flattery to Lizard Island and anchored up with a few other yachts in Watson’s Bay. As we dropped the anchor a small Lemon Shark swam around us and checked us out. We jumped into the water to check the anchor and there were lots of huge fish enjoying […]
Hope Island to Cape Flattery
Hope Island was a windy but comfortable anchorage to spend the night. A nice pancake breakfast was cooked before pulling anchor and heading North towards Cape Flattery. It was again nice sailing weather with the Job and reefed mizzen sails flying, we averaged over 7 knots in the morning and 6.3 knots for the afternoon […]
Longer Stay in Cairns than Planned
The starter saga drags on in Cairns, what was intended to be a two day stop has now gone on for two weeks and two days so far… With finding crew and then a starter failure, as we went to leave, the saga began. It all started with a slight whine in the engine that […]
All ready to go…….. no another day here.
All ready to go, everything stowed, tide is now high for navigating Moon Creak, turn the key…….. nothing. The previous night I had drained a little water from one of the Racor water separators. I then tested the motor, there was a slight wine that I had never heard before. When I killed the […]
Preparation for the crossing of the Gulf of Carpentaria
The crossing from Seisia at the top of the Cape York Peninsular, Queensland to Gove in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory is approximately 358 nautical miles. For preparation for this crossing I have fitted the storm sail to the 3rd furler on Caree. Although I hope we don’t need to use it, everything is set […]
Day 11 to Day 14 Cairns to Bluewaters Marina Trinity Park
We arrived at Cairns Cruising Yacht Squadron and moored at the end of Jetty A in front of their substantial boat yard where many yachts and powerboats are undergoing repairs and restoration. I checked in and collected the usual key for access to showers, laundry and other facilities. Keith went to the club to contact […]