This is the tale of two landlubber computer programmers, working on IT contracts in the far corners of the world and generally living a satisfactory life, who suddenly decided to give it all up and go to sea.
Knowing nothing at all about boats, we decided to document our progress here, for the amusement and (hopefully) edification of those who may be considering a similar break. We tell it as it happens, warts and all.
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- In the Beginning
- Hunting for a Yacht
- Going for Survey
- Fitting Out
- Our first Antifoul
- Problems with the Propeller
- The Tale of the Zodiac
- The Floating Gourmets
- First Maintenance
- Going Coastal
- Steeling Up
- Night Watch
- Where’s the money?
- Sea trials and the Sydney to Hobart
- Feel the Power!
- Two weeks to go
- Free! Free! Free!
- Almost…
- We’re off, you know
- Pittwater to Port Stephens
- Salamander Bay: The morning fish fry
- Thinking about the Future
- A Magical Interlude
- Fame Cove
- An evening with Evie
- Port Stephens to Camden Haven
- Arrival at Camden Haven
- Sojourn in Laurieton
- The Mountain
- Escape from Camden Haven
- Hat Head to Coffs Harbour
- The Solitary Islands
- Waiting at Iluka
- Gales, Water and Wine at Iluka
- Still here!
- Hello John, Got A New Motor?
- Escape from Iluka
- Arrival at Queensland’s Gold Coast
- Surfers Paradise
- Having a Swell Time
- Running Blind
- Sand surfing on Moreton Island
- Brisbane
- Urban Life
- Mud Island
- Escape from Moreton Bay
- Mooloolaba
- After the Deluge
- The Natives are Restless
- Escape from Mooloolaba
- Mad Mile at Wide Bay Bar
- Garrys Anchorage
- North White Cliffs, Fraser Island
- Across Hervey Bay to Bundaberg
- Bundaberg
- Bustard Head and Pancake Creek
- Pancake Creek
- Gladstone Marina
- Gladstone
- Gladstone to Great Keppel Island
- Keppel Islands to Percy Islands
- An island of our own
- Middle Percy Island
- Our first fish
- Mackay
- Goldsmith Island
- Lindeman Island
- A Tirade Against Mooring Buoys
- Cid Harbour
- Whitehaven Beach
- Mikayla sails us to Lindeman Island
- Completing the Whitsunday Circuit
- Hamilton Island
- Bowen
- Dragging Anchor: A Hard Day’s Night
- Some New Tactics
- Orange Bloom
- Gales at Cape Upstart
- Cape Bowling Green
- Breakwater Marina
- Magnetic Island
- We like Townsville
- The Palm Group millpond
- Hinchinbrook Island
- Slow Boat to Cairns
- Cairns
- The Low Islets
- Entering the Great Barrier Reef
- Lizard Island
- Big Fish
- Rounding Cape York
- Horn Island
- Thursday Island
- Into the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Weipa
- The Katadyn Makes Water
- Across the Gulf of Carpentaria
- Gove and Nhulunbuy
- The Hole in the Wall
- Across the Arafura Sea
- Epiphany at Black Point
- Victoria, an abandoned settlement
- Snake Bay
- Musings in Milikapiti
- Decisions at Gordon Bay
- The tides of Beagle Gulf
- Darwin
- The Darwin Build-Up
- Penniless in Perth
- Life on land
- Monsoon Goodbyes
- Pindimara costs