2012 Blog

Lembatta to Lombok

03 – 06 August 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We left Kupang mid morning and motored up the Timor coast to anchor over night. This would break the trip up into two manageable day trips rather than having to sail north across the Sulu Sea all night in the shipping lanes. We found a small …

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Kupang, Indonesia

August 1-3, 2012, Eastern Hemisphere Dear F&F, We arrived at Kupang in the middle of the night and after adjusting our watches to the new time zone, were able to get a good nights sleep. The next day was quite the experience as checking into Indonesia is quite complex. The main reason I chose to …

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Sail Indonesia Rally – Darwin to Kupang

28 – 31 July 2012, Eastern Hemisphere Dear F&F, We left our anchorage for the busy starting area about an hour before the event was to begin. Several boats had left hours earlier or the day before to insure their arrival with \”the fleet\”. There were about 110 boats in the starting area and it …

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Darwin

28 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We left the anchorage at Alcara (last we wrote), and made the trip in 11 hours, going 96 miles. This average speed was enhanced, retarded and again enhanced by the large tides in the Van Diemen Gulf and the Dundas Strait approaching Darwin. At one time while the …

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North Goulbourn Island to Coral Bay, Coubourg Peninsula on to Darwin…..

08 -10, July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, When we woke up in Mullet Bay at North Goulbourn Island, we saw that new friends \”Silver Girl\” had just arrived and went to sleep. They, and \”Mr. John VI\” did a day/night/day passage from Howard Island where we\’d left them three days earlier. We enjoyed our …

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Mlingimbi Inlet to North Goulbourn Island and assorted other stuff!

06 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last I wrote, we\’d anchored at Yabooma Island and I\’d gone over the whole big tide math to make sure that at \”O Dark Thirty\” we didn\’t visit the muddy bottom of the Yabooma Esturary. WELL…. I got nervous after my own lecture and figured it would be …

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Yabooma Island Estuary…..

04 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Well, the wind didn\’t look all that bad to us this morning despite the forecast for gusts up to 30 knots. As we would be very inshore next to the \”continent\” vs. small narrow islands, we thought the winds would be lighter and indeed they were! With two …

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Wessel Group……

3 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Last night, we anchored in 15 feet of water and did indeed check the tide at Refuge Bay. With the full moon, they are pretty big here. So we estimated that we\’d get down to 5 feet at around 1:30 a.m. Well, maybe my math  was off just …

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Hole in the Wall….

01 July 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, We felt in no rush to leave Gove today as we decided to just go to Elizabeth Bay and stay the night, planning to arrive at Hole in the Wall at the morning slack low tide. We got the expected wind however and decided to press on to …

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Gove tour and Aboriginal Art Center….

30 June 2012 (Eastern Hemisphere) Dear F&F, Today we were able to get a \”hire car\” as they are called here. A beat up Toyota Hilux. These types of vehicles are referred to in \”OZ\” as \”Utes\”. That\’s for Utility Vehicle. Ours wasn\’t a \”Mine Spec UTE\” according to Nikki (actually is was a beater!), …

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