Strahan to Hobart The 25knt southerly winds, 3m swell and 1m waves died down after several hours and the rest of the 17hr trip to Port Davey was very quiet. We did loose Internet and phone but not until 50nm south of Strahan. Alan took the first watch that allowed him to watch the final […]
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As we pass Cape Sorrell on our port side, we have our fishing lines out and going up and over 3-5m swells from the SW and have 18knt light breeze also from the SW. I say light breeze compared to the winds we’ve had lately. We have a 12-14 hour trip ahead of us and
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The sun is finally shining on Strahan, may only be for a minute! But we will see! To read more on our trip visit the Official Website of RYCT! http://www.ryct.org.au/content/category/6/44/139/ We now have revised our departure for Port Davey to Sunday evening overnighting and arriving Monday morning. A lot of the crews from other vessels
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Having left from Mill Bay yesterday, but not until we had painstakingly bought the anchor up foot by foot, washing it down as it was heavily caked with thick sticky mud. All this happened in between the showers that were coming over in waves. Then it was a 3hr trip to the southern end of
All night and all day we have experienced high winds with some even stronger gusts. 49 knots was the highest that we saw on the instruments, as we felt the gust hit the boat, we would then run to the pilothouse to read the instruments, so I’m sure they were stronger! As we slept this morning
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All day we motored along through the large swell and waves. It was very comfortable, considering the sea conditions. We mostly stayed firmly in our seats, Alan sat behind me at the bench seat in the pilothouse as his legs were long enough to reach the edge of the dash. I sat in the helm seat
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As we sit here listening to songs from the seventies, enjoying the scenery, and going up and down in the 3 m swells with 20-25 knt Southerly wind, we are making way down the west coast of Tassie at 5knts. Our position is 40 54 849S 144 33 671E.
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The day finally came after several days in Stanley and we made our break to Three Hummock Island, Three Gullies Bay. As we came into the bay so did Bill on Maatsuyker and then 6 other yachts followed. They had been on the northern end of the island experiencing a fair bit of swell. Once anchored we
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We enjoyed a quiet night on the wharf at Devonport and awoke the next morning to the sound of the humming of the Spirit of Tasmania berthing at the wharf opposite. this morning was again all go, as the parcel we had been waiting for to arrive in Launceston had arrived the day we left,
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We had a very pleasant trip from Clarke Is to the Tamar River. Several Barrocouta were caught and thrown back, as they have worms in them, but there were plenty of other boats that kept and ate them. The following breeze allowed us to take photos of other vessels on the cruise, especially Maamalmi a
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