Underway

 As Bruce just said on an unrelated matter- it is coming together. We have set sail with Danny, Bruce, Mimi and I aboard from Gladstone. Mindful that a boat is at the mercy of winds and waters I hope to go westward eventually. But with Austrialia in the way we headed North, through the scenic Narrows which oddly reminded me of sailing through Friesland.

Mimi is in OCD heaven with supplies for a month or two all packed in new containers, and with everything logged on an app which - I have been ecstatically told a few times- tracks expiry dates, logs usage and can even suggest meals. But it doesn’t cook, so we’ve been taking turns at that.  And yesterday, at Great Keppel Island we woke up to a grey, windy, rainy day. We set sail nonetheless and under genoa alone still made 7 knots or more in the 20+ gusty wind to Pearl Bay.  It was an impressive anchorage in this blustery weather, a bay guarded by islands of dark and jagged rock.

Back to that coming together- after 5 hectic days in Gladstone of repairing this, and buying that, and stowing many, many different things I can now sometimes locate an item on the boat. It looks like everyone is getting the hang of things and we anchored twice without first having to call a committee meeting and haven’t required post- anchor debriefing sessions either. So far, so good. We’re aiming for the Percies for today and Danny is trying to catch a fish.

I would love to embellish this brief post with some images, but Blogspot’s new owner, Blogger, which is Google has thwarted all my efforts to achieve this simple task.