Retuned my rigging . The boat was pointing 5deg better on one tack. Mast was leaning to one side leveled and then straightened it up .went for a sail and much better.
First sail after breaking my leg. Was a great sail on our little windrush until bang! 50 cm crack along one hull and we started to sink. thankfully manage to sail it back to shore....
Good excuse to buy a trailer sailor?
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If some kind person could tell me how to rotate the picture I would be grateful, it won't load unless its this way round.
I think its one of your internet cables must have a twist in it 
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We took Chiquita out into the estuary for fire works last night at Mandurah. Here she is all ready for the night, anchor light in the forestay and nav lights in their boxes. The kind Marine Safetly asked me 'turn off' the nav lights....fair cop guv. Except they don't turn off. I could blow them out....oh well, I unscrewed them and put the in the cockpit until time to go. Re lighting them is a pain. I guess it IS poor seamanship. Every second boat had them on though. I was happy enough to have them as it was a bit crowded and see and be seen helps.
We just had a few days around Batemans Bay. It was so crowded that we had to share an anchorage one night, and there was a third boat anchored only two miles away. By our standards that's packing it in.
The downside was that the weather was disappointing as far as sailing goes, apart from a splendid 10 mile or so reach down the coast to Burrewarra Pt, further south. We'd just started to go upwind into the westerly to get to Broulee when we came across someone drifting out to sea in a jet powered powerboat tender that had broken down. We pulled him aboard and towed the tender back to his big powerboat, moving about 2 knots slower than normal - those things create enormous drag.
The next day the forecast was for a ten knot southerly going SE; perfect for running under assymmetric back to the bay. Just like every other forecast down here this Christmas the call was wrong and we ended up motoring almost all the way home. It was forecast to rain for days so we came home and instead it seems to have been fairly nice weather. The weather gurus are normally pretty accurate but it all went pear-shaped the whole holiday season down here.
A little belated but, managed to get a number of sails in over Christmas to New Year. Sailed out of Brisbane Water out to Terrigal and across Broken Bay. Slowly getting the boat dialed in for sail trim and control settings really enjoying learning the boat.
Also spent our first night at Anchor and held fast all night which I was slightly proud of......... looking forward to more Adventures this year. Hope Everyone has had a chance to
get wet over the Summer so far.
I think I'm in the Whitsundays but I'm not! Only one boat in sight and King George whitting on the bite!
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how do I post short film clips to the forum, thanks.jm.
you need to upload them to Youtube or Vimeo first...
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how do I post short film clips to the forum, thanks.jm.
you need to upload them to Youtube or Vimeo first...
thanks fishy.
Day out in Rockingham with the new recruits.
Litte mishap to start. I forgot to put in one of the hull bungs. Lucky we were still close to the beach.
Beautiful place to go sailing.
Was great to get the new boat out for the first decent solo sail on the weekend with a lap around Phillip Island. Good sailing, and always nice to get a visit from some locals too!
After spending a couple of months around Hervey Bay and Fraser Island, we are now heading south for a month or two. Today we pulled in at Bongaree, Bribie Island for a look around - what a great spot!
Got to Bums Bay today after an awesome sail from Bongaree this morning.
Totally different kind of place hey - helicopters, houseboats, people anchored too close, jet boats, Rivieras, busy, busy busy.
Mind you, I find it slightly exciting!
Quite a few yachts racing as we approached the Seaway too, kinda got caught up in it a bit 
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Got to Bums Bay today after an awesome sail from Bongaree this morning.
Totally different kind of place hey - helicopters, houseboats, people anchored too close, jet boats, Rivieras, busy, busy busy.
Mind you, I find it slightly exciting!
Quite a few yachts racing as we approached the Seaway too, kinda got caught up in it a bit .
Where are you Now and Zen? I don't know Bums bay?
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Got to Bums Bay today after an awesome sail from Bongaree this morning.
Totally different kind of place hey - helicopters, houseboats, people anchored too close, jet boats, Rivieras, busy, busy busy.
Mind you, I find it slightly exciting!
Quite a few yachts racing as we approached the Seaway too, kinda got caught up in it a bit .
Where are you Now and Zen? I don't know Bums bay?
Bums bay is at the Southport spit , just south of the seaway
Ah! Thanks Jode, I should 've twigged with the Riveria's reference. The houseboats threw me, I was thinking of the Jacobs Well stretch with all the colourful native wildlife.
We sailed from The Broadwater to Ballina today. Only saw 1 other boat - a cat headed north.
I saw 6 sharks on the way, all within a 5 mile stretch about 5 - 10nm north of Byron Bay.
All were headed north, about 5ft long, light brown, snub nosed with what appeared to be a fairly long tail fin. It's more sharks than I have seen in 12 months of living aboard, all in one day.
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We sailed from The Broadwater to Ballina today. Only saw 1 other boat - a cat headed north.
I saw 6 sharks on the way, all within a 5 mile stretch about 5 - 10nm north of Byron Bay.
All were headed north, about 5ft long, light brown, snub nosed with what appeared to be a fairly long tail fin. It's more sharks than I have seen in 12 months of living aboard, all in one day.
Could be thrasher sharks with snub nose and long tails. Not the white pointer nose!
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We sailed from The Broadwater to Ballina today. Only saw 1 other boat - a cat headed north.
I saw 6 sharks on the way, all within a 5 mile stretch about 5 - 10nm north of Byron Bay.
All were headed north, about 5ft long, light brown, snub nosed with what appeared to be a fairly long tail fin. It's more sharks than I have seen in 12 months of living aboard, all in one day.
Young Tiger sharks.
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We sailed from The Broadwater to Ballina today. Only saw 1 other boat - a cat headed north.
I saw 6 sharks on the way, all within a 5 mile stretch about 5 - 10nm north of Byron Bay.
All were headed north, about 5ft long, light brown, snub nosed with what appeared to be a fairly long tail fin. It's more sharks than I have seen in 12 months of living aboard, all in one day.
Young Tiger sharks.
Do tigers migrate south to breed?
No idea where tiger sharks breed. Like whalers, hammerheads and mako's they generally follow the feed. Salmon up the beaches and tuna out wider. There is one particular spot wide off here that I regularly caught tiger sharks at and I tried to avoid the area if I could. Nasty critters. thick tough skin and always sold for poor money. Often strange contents in their stomachs as well!
Yamba Shores Tavern for a quiet beveridge. This photo was taken last year.... but the beers still tasted good today!
riiiiiiiiiggght now I have my movie on vimeo, how do I get it to the seabreeze forum. thanks in advance jm.
Go to where your video is on Vimeo, copy ctrl +C the URL www.vimeo etc etc, come back to this SB thread and Paste the URL ctrl +V in a reply, that will automatically turn it into a link (or embed) the vid.
might be different process if your on a apple product..?
ps, was great to meet you and H at the lake on Saturday .
cheers
thanks for the help blue moon, when did you leave lake mac ,we went over on tuesday but you had already left . it blew up a right old southerly buster at lunch time we had to reef all sails and after hearing the weather report from norah head decided to call it a day and head for the bar at the club. just as we settled in the wind dropped right off . but we had already packed up. bugger. catch you later.
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sailing on lake macquarie a couple of weeks ago,found a new use for the mooring hook. please be kind to me its my first video attempt
Nice one ace, all the best for your future videos, and, 'may the blue bird of happiness fly up your left trouser leg' as did the video shots on occasion.
