16/1/2013
27o
56.772 S 153o 25.416 E “Bum’s Bay” Gold Coast
Motored down
this morning to the Gold Coast Seaway and the weather was just right to head
out to the Coral sea to at last do some real sailing. He will do 5kn on a beam
reach in 10kn of wind. The genoa is huge
and seems set up for light air sailing for such a heavy boat. Didn’t have any more wind to push the boat
anymore but he is quite sea kindly.
…and here’s
the money shot….
Scott trolling
a lure along Surfers Paradise.
Back in
through the seaway and the tide was ebbing so it was pretty confused. The jet skis we zipping around as we
rollicked our way through and then
headed to Bum’s bay for the night.
Bum's Bay
This
anchorage is pretty notorious with cruising yachts and is just a short dinghy
ride to Sea World, The Versacci and The Mirage.
To show just what “bums” we’ve become Scott had a wash in the fountain
out the front.
This is the
end of the shakedown and the list of things to be done has grown to include fixing
a leak in the chain locker. We’ve worked
the boat as hard as we could given the conditions and it has held up pretty
well. More importantly, it shows what a couple of duffers can do when on a steep learning curve.
Just the clean up tomorrow then
back home for six weeks.
I’m sure
Scott will supply a review.
