“We’ve got a couple of choices,” said M, as we sat on the sand at Bayview yesterday afternoon. “The weather is pretty much going to be ballistic for the next week, which means we’ll have to stay in Pittwater, or…” “Or?” “Or we can leave early in the morning before the ballistic really kicks in …
Month: March 2018
Immediately after our boat no longer held nine people. NINE! Small DB and I got sick. She had a fever and felt like a sludgy slug. I felt the same, minus the fever. Glerg. I literally did nothing for at least four days. On the positive side – we caught up with our friends on …
On the second last day of February I recieved a text message from one half of some of our BEST FRIENDS EVER. He asked how long we planned to be in Sydney, and were we sailing any further south. I said ‘about four weeks or so’ and ‘no’. By the end of that day we …
Boom! Belatedly we realised that our steering is busted. It amazes me that it took this long to discover… It must have happened incrementally over time. I was under the foggy impression that when the autopilot belt broke, M had done something to alter the steering – this had resulted in the wheel being super-stiff; …
I write this a little belatedly, but I want to document our first bit of time spent in Pittwater (not counting our very brief visit last time. For anyone visiting on a boat, save yourself the trouble of looking for a public/courtesy mooring. There are none. It is well known that you can borrow moorings …