LaGecko Sailing

Category: fresh water

  • Christmas & first year on LaGecko

    On the 5th of December last year we moved permanently on LaGecko, since then we have had a year of, for us, many new adventures. Now we are at Christmas 2024 in the Pittwater – Cowan creek area roughly 30km north of Sydney finally living the Cruising lifestyle as started by a simple idea five…

  • Superb day with great friends sailing to Pittwater.

    Yesterday we motor sailed from Manly, approx 4 hours north, into Pittwater, to where our friends Lucie and Paul live at Coasters retreat. It was a little bumpy with disturbed lumpy seas. Under Paul’s guidance and vast sailing experience we managed to try out different sail configurations making the best of the conditions. Lucie and…

  • Sydney almost over it

    The last two and a half weeks in Sydney have been interesting and amazing. After the five nights in Blackwattle bay we set a course back through the harbour to Spit bridge into Middle Harbour. Spit bridge only opens a few times a day. Passing through the bridge was a bit intimidating trying to time…

  • Shell Harbour Marina

    We left Shell harbour Marina this morning and are currently motoring up to Quarantine bay near Manly in Sydney Harbour. SHM is an amazing place. It used to be marsh land then the Shell Cove council decided to make a marina complex. They dug out the marina through to the bedrock to a minimum depth of…

  • Topping up with everything we need and leaving Bermagui

    Yesterday we did our last shop and paid our marina bill for the 12 days ($660), and last night we topped up our  water (800 litres) and power (not much as solar is covering our usage in the marina easily) and packed up the boat back into sailing mode. This morning after disconnecting the power…

  • Making fresh water

    So a week or so ago when we were at Prince of Wales bay marina, I stripped down the water maker and replaced the membranes. After reassembling it we had to leave it for a few days until we were in unpolluted seawater in Storm bay to test it, I found that there was a…