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Selling our boat
She sold and our sailing project has come to an end! Our goals evolved as we started to convert our dream into a reality. Grand plans of going across the pacific changed to Tasmania and ended up being just being Sydney. Selling a boat isn’t as easy as selling a car. We needed to have…
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2 days and 270 nautical miles south
In short, that was an adventure! We have been lucky with the weather so far. The wind does what it wants and on most occasions we have to wait until it is aligned with the direction we are trying to go. For this passage we wanted a northerly wind, and ideally a northerly swell. Northerly…
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Lady Musgrave
As I was saying the journey to Lady Musgrave was uneventful. We were really tired from our previous passage the day before and our short night didn’t help us recovering from it either. As usual for our night passages, once we were away from any danger we set our autopilot and took turns to keep…
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French Kiss Hauled Out
In January we spent some time out of the water in the Gold Coast working on areas of the boat below the water line. The new video is now available on our YouTube channel for anyone interested! The Adventures of Erica and Nico YouTube Channel
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Passage from Hervey Bay to Burnett River to Pancake Creek
The adventure continues north. Our goal: get to Lady Musgrave! We decided to break the journey up in two so that we would arrive somewhat fresh at our first reef. This was also to reduce tiredness and anxiety (something which I’ve learned so far in this journey will be with me, especially as we do…
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Tin Can Bay, Great Sandy Straight, Kingfisher Bay Resort & Hervey Bay
Following our big initial trip we dialled down the pace. We are still planning to go to Lady Musgrave but it won’t be with Jessy and Shane unfortunately. Tin Can Bay Tin Can Bay is a coastal town and located in the Wide Bay–Burnett region in Queensland, Australia. The area is split between the Fraser…
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Our first long overnight passage and our first (sand) bar!
Our big plan is to go south to Sydney. However, so many friends and contacts at our marina have told us about how pretty the Fraser island area is, so we decided to add that to our list. Fraser Island (Butchulla: K’gari) is a World Heritage-listed island along the south-eastern coast in the Wide Bay–Burnett…
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