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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…
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On our way ?maybe?
Yesterday morning, Wednesday (21st) we left Hobart on our way to see the world by sailboat. Dropped in at DSS (the starting place of our sailing journey, where we bought Katmai) to top off the fuel and water and then headed off down the river. Carol and Steve were flying a blanket off their balcony…
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Can’t make concrete plans
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…
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Back at Rabbit Island
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…
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We have left our berth
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…
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Cruising journey 2024
26 November 2024 Bobbin head to America bay via Cottage rock mooring, 1.6Nm. Mooring at S33° 35.712 E151° 15.444, poor Telstra coverage 25 November 2024 Cotton tree bay to Bobbin head, Cowan creek, 2Nm. Mooring at S33° 39.457 E151° 09.817, good Telstra coverage 24 November 2024 Cottage rock to Cotten tree bay, 26Nm. Mooring at…
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6 days to go
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…
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Finally back out on the water
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…
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Fuel Injection Pump
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…
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First hardware failure injury
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…
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