I’ve always loved solo sailing, Sailing alone on a Catamaran is a lot different from a monohull though, this I learnt.
I’m yet to decide if I’ll solo sail my Cat on longer passage though as the danger seems to be much higher.
I solo sailed my mono m...
Eden, you were amazing, thanks! We spent an unplanned month altogether in this beautiful little town and loved it! So many friendly locals, so many beautiful places to visit. As we sailed out of there and headed north to Bermagui we show you just a few sni...
Today we show you our process for planning a sailing passage, in this case to cross the notorious Bass Strait. We are losing patience slowly, being stuck here in Eden for over 3 weeks now but are still cautious as Catamaran is still new and unproven to us....
Last week we broke some of the rigging while attempting to cross the notorious Bass Straight, this week we replace the entire running rigging with new gear.
A big job but it feels good to now have a solid base.
Enjoi.
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Off we go, across the Bass Straight to Tasmania. We didnt get very far though, first the Jib halyard broke then after fixing that and sailing on one of the job sheets snapped. That was enough, I lost all trust in the running rigging and for the first time ...
Our first overnight passage on our new Catamaran, Trade Runner. Pittwater south to Eden, NSW is about 240 nautical miles and we picked a pretty mellow wind for this one. There is a good south running current about 15 miles offshore so we sailed out there a...
Sailing time!
We leave Nelson Bay and sail south to Newcastle on our new (to us) Catamaran. Its only a short passage and we have chosen a pretty calm day but there are still some butterflies as this is new for both of us!
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Moving Time!
The process of packing up our old home (Schiehallion) and moving all that stuff to our new home (Trade Runner) is a big one. Accumulated stuff has to be sorted through, junk thrown away. Then everything needs to be transported over, all of by ...
We decided to buy Trade Runner so in order to do that we needed to sell Schiehallion ASAP. I put together a bunch of images and info and advertised her on a couple of websites. Two days later and she was sold to the first person who looked at her, AMAZING!...
Buying a Catamaran! Should we do it, is it going to the dark side?
This week we go check out a Crowther Windspeed 39 in Port Stephens, NSW. Its a pretty big decision, to sell our beloved Schiehallion. We give our thought process on this and take you with u...
Our current passage record of 176nm in 24hrs is under threat this week as we sail from Yamba 240nm south to Port Stephens. With a good wind forecast and the strong south flowing current it looked good for a possible 200nm 24hr run. Did we make it?
Also, we...
Leaving the extremely loud and busy Gold Coast we sail the 240nm south to Yamba. Marie gets pretty stressed when we haven't been doing long passages for a while and this time it happened again. She felt scared, seasick and just generally unwell. The trip w...
After sailing down the Queensland coast to Brisbane we checked in to Scarborough Marina for a 2 weeks stay through the Christmas break. We were looking forward to a little holiday but it turned out to be a mad busy time. We painted, repaired, upgraded and ...
On a recent passage from Fraser Island to Brisbane we had an amazing Spinnaker run. I might have pushed past my limits though!
First we show you a short glimpse of a few days spent in Maryborough then its all sailing from there.
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Jumped in the water at Lady Musgrave Island and straight way came across a friendly turtle to swim with. So rad!
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Sailing 40 miles offshore in sporty conditions to an amazing atoll called Lady Musgrave Island.
By pure chance we happened to be visiting while 3 different types of Turtles were nesting, what luck! Also the birds were at it, Black Bodies and Shearwater ne...
Sailing 40 miles offshore in sporty conditions to an amazing atoll called Lady Musgrave Island.
Enjoi!
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There are so many great spots down the East Cost of Australia and the Percy Island group is one of them! Beautiful beaches, some very interesting history and remote. We stay a few days in some different anchorages and then set of on a 100nm sail further so...
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Our first sailing passage in a while, the first for Marie in Australia. 105nm from Magnetic Island to Bowen. It was a dream passage from start to end, we lifted anchor at 1pm and dropped anchor at 3.30am, thats a 7kt average. We had optimum wind and sea st...
We put half the boat back together after removing lots of stuff for the deck painting. I climb the mast to fix the wind whirly-gig and masthead navigation light. After we get the boat ship-shape we're ready to get out of the HOT marina and back out at anch...
We're still apart, Marie in Magnetic Island and alone on the boat, Vernon in Switzerland carrying out a commercial Photo-Shoot.
For the past couple of years we've spent almost every minute together so its ben interesting now spending this time apart, espe...
I'm in Switzerland for a short time on a photoshoot. I spend the first few days in Grindelwald getting acclimatised before going up to 3500 for a week of glacier skiing.
Meanwhile, Marie is alone for the first time aboard Schiehallion. She finds it difficu...
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