And so the next adventure begins! Pete, Pete, Dom, Ferg and Ned pulled away from Jetty D, Raymond Island just before 3pm Monday 12th December, 2016. Gorgeously sunny and warm day but no wind. They motored all the way to Lakes and headed out through The Entrance without...

Yesterday, it was 12 months ago exactly that Pete headed north last Christmas holidays and Ayla and I joined him in Sydney for our first big adventure on Gradiva. Today, we provisioned the boat, ready for him to set sail again tomorrow. He will be joined this time by h...

The day just kept getting better! We continued to enjoy some calmer seas and the wind even turned around towards the end and we got to put some sails up! We saw seals and HEAPS of dolphins! This video was taken just off Lake Tyers Beach, only an hour out of Lakes Entra...

Sitting on the boat at Fisheries, Pete and I kept pondering the weather maps, wind direction and strength and the tides. We had to keep comparing what would be happening when we left Eden, when we got down to Gabo Island as we started to change direction around the poi...

We have a working engine again! Yippeeeee!

Here is the culprit to our engine troubles - a fuel filter chock-a-block full of algae!

John Parsons, the mechanic that helped Pete when we first arrived in Eden a week ago, pulled the fuel filter apart:

Nasty! Apparently a...

And here we are...still in Eden...waiting...waiting...waiting...for our engine to be fixed. There is still no hard evidence as to why the engine just suddenly stopped. The batteries have now been replaced. They were a little tired. The starter motor is still being look...

After a lovely catch up with friends on the boat in Eden Harbour and then dinner at the pub, Tom Peters joined the Gradiva crew and we set off from Eden Harbour at 10pm on Wednesday 6th January, bound for Lakes Entrance - due to pass through the entrance bar into the G...

We left Jervis Bay at 5am on Tuesday, January 5th. It was a lonely day at sea. We only saw one other boat the whole day! We presume these guys were on their way home from the Sydney to Hobart...

We spent 15 hours at sea that day. There was a lot of swell and it was pret...

Another early start with a sensational sunrise as we left Cronulla on Saturday morning - just the 3 of us...

There was a surprisingly big swell going out through the heads and it was still quite dark, no other boats around and just me, Pete and Ayla on board. I'm not go...

It was a fairly slow start to the day on January 1st, 2016. But we managed to farewell Moccie and Brett at d'Albora Marina, Rushcutters Bay, as well as Ferg and Lucy who went their seperate ways too, and around 10am Gradiva headed off (again into a head wind) with Pete...