Boys headed off around 3pm
And so the next adventure begins! Pete, Pete, Dom, Ferg and Ned pulled away from Jetty D, Raymond Island just before 3pm Monday 12th...
Our BLOG about sailing around on Gradiva, our Amel 53 Mango
Provisioning the boat! We're off again :)
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...
We made it! So good to be home
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...
Take 2...Deja Vu?
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...
Ahaaaa - we found the culprit!
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...
Waiting...waiting...waiting...
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...
A testing time at sea!!
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...
From Jervis Bay to Eden
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...
Just the 3 of us to Jervis Bay
Another early start with a sensational sunrise as we left Cronulla on Saturday morning - just the 3 of us... There was a surprisingly big...
Rushcutters Bay to Cronulla
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...