Bruce's Blog

What a last 24 hours, plenty of wind for fast sailing to get home in a hurry, which was great because I was trying to beat a wind change to the north west which would have meant lots of tacking up the coast of Moreton Island. As I approached the coast lots of ships started showing up on the AIS with up to six at a time! But with the AIS it took a lot of the guessing out of it, as you could see which way they were going and how close they were going to pass you by.

Well it’s been some great sailing up the NSW Coast, not too much to report, the breeze has been fairly steady from the south east most of the time making some nice reaching conditions. One thing that did happen with the wind was that we where sailing along in about 15 knots of wind when I saw a gust of 20 knots, then within 2 seconds it dropped to zero, as I  watched it was amazing, the boat was still doing 10 knots with the sails flapping , a bit hard to trim!

Finally made it, Yeah Ha!!

Finally I have had full sail up for the first time in over a week even through it is a head wind.  The seas have calmed down over the last couple of days enough to make some decent progress but mostly to the E not SE towards Tasmania. So in about 250 nautical miles in front of me we hope that there will be the predicted wind change to allow me to head towards SE Cape at the bottom of Tasmania. To tell the truth the weather forecasts can drive you mad. When you get a good one you feel great and all is good but when you get a bad one it can be a real downer.