LaGecko Sailing

Category: moorings

  • 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…

  • Slowing Down for a while

    We are in Pittwater/Cowan creek/Hawkesbury river area about 17 nm (30 km) north of Sydney. Coasters Retreat has been our base off and on, the home of our friends Lucie and Paul and the home port of their Amel Sharki. Many cruisers we have met rave about this area and now we understand why. It’s…

  • 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…

  • Sydney- Loving it 😊

    It was approx a 9 hour motor sail from Shell Harbour to just inside North Head at Quarantine near Manly where we picked up a mooring. A night of wake from the Manly ferries doing 20 knots had us moving on early the next morning to one of the very few good anchorages in the…