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| Hamilton Marina |
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| Somewhere in the Whitsundays |
But before the crew arrival we enjoyed a bit
more of Whitsundays sailing with Anne and John visiting from the US. We first
met them in the Caribbean when they were cruising in their boat Livin’ the
Dream. Together we survived the experience of spending a cyclone season in troubled
Venezuela back in 2008 and we’ve been in touch ever since. They had promised they
would fly to Australia for a month long holiday and it was great to have them
for a little while with us.
On the 26 of November Oscar and crew, our son Gonzalo and our
friend Phil, started the trip south with a little hope of good northerlies,
which seemed to be always 2 days away as the forecast kept changing. The trip
was mostly ok but there was a lot of frustration as there was no good weather
to stop neither at North West Island nor at Lady Musgrave as they were hoping
to do. After 10 days of mainly motor sailing they arrived in Hervey Bay. The
crew had run out of time and could not keep going, so Zenitude stayed in
Urangan Marina for the month of December.
We did the final leg, Hervey Bay to Coomera in the Gold
Coast during the week after Christmas. It was a good trip, with just one stop
at the anchorage in Kingfisher Bay Resort for the first night and then down the
Sandy Straight, across Wide Bay Bar (more scary than ever, even in very calm
weather), continuing all the way in an overnight to the Gold Coast Seaway where
we entered early afternoon to be ‘welcomed’ by hundreds of people in the water
making all kind of silly things like falling just ahead of our catamaran from
their water skis.
We made it safely to the Gold Coast City marina just a day
ahead of the New Year with little time to organize anything fancy for New Year’s
Eve. We welcomed 2015 in a quiet starry night with a special dinner and the
very cold bottle of champagne.
A week later the friendly staff of GCC Marina took care of
Zenitude and hauled her out of the water where she is now resting and getting ready
for next season once summer and cyclone season are over.
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| Targeting April to be back in the water |
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