LaGecko Sailing

So the plan for this morning was to have a leisurely start, get up and dawdle through breakfast and then head down to Recherche. But…… Around 6am the winds picked up a bit, then a bit after 7am the anchor alarm on my phone went off 😕 turned on some switches and then headed up…

After last nights attempted selling the car and finding out it had a radiator leak. I rang up this morning and booked the car in to get its radiator repaired next week and we left the dock about 8am and headed south down the channel. We got a short chance to sail off Middleton in…

The big day finally came, we spent the morning packing away the last few items, catching up with Mick and Julie, returning a book to Paul, a goodbye visit from Michael from Zihir, and lastly Bruce came and saw us off and took these pictures Ended up motoring to Egg’s n Bacon bay and had…

Hello, guess what? We are finally moving off the dock on Saturday the 3rd of August we start our journey. For the first week we’ll stay in the channel winding our way down to Recherche after that maybe up to town, maybe Norfolk bay ……. So I wonder if anyone will read this? Say HI…

05/06/2024 So after a 2-month ordeal in getting our fuel injection pump serviced and back on the engine, we have left the dock. We spent several hours just running the motor through its paces, making sure that it’s behaving itself, running between 1500 and 3000 RPM motoring around Northwest bay. We ended up anchoring in…

Over the last few months we have been getting a bit of Diesel fuel under our engine, it started with a little and got to be a lot more than I was comfortable with. So I talked with Ian Hughes the local Volvo mechanic to get it removed and serviced but he couldn’t look at…

Yesterday afternoon we had our first serious injury, we have had countless stubbed toes and bumped heads, elbows and knees from us not moving carefully enough. But this is the first time the failure of a piece of equipment has caused us injury. The injury occurred as I was moving the mizzen boom to its…