Day 3 Opua-Bundaberg

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Well disaster stuck last night!!  My favourite big, wide based mug took flying lesson but didn't listen to the instruction about dropping the landing gear before landing so ended up splattered into a thousand pieces.  I have taken that mug on all my deliveries, I even take it on holiday's wherever we go.  Anybody who has crewed with me over the years will know about this mug and how much I enjoy having a really big cup of tea and how stable it was.  Alas not stable enough last night when it was sitting on the dinning table and we got rolled by a pretty big wave.  Luckily I had finished and it was empty.

RIP "Bearly Awake" mug ............Lucky when I bought it I also bought a 2nd!!  😎

  


Now on to the sailing stuff....

As I mentioned above it got a little lively last night, the wind was only 10-15kts but the waves were around 2-2.5m from aft quarter so we were picked up turned to port, autopilot doing a great job brining us back on course only for the boat to drop of the back of the wave which tried to turn us to starboard.  Again the Garmin autopilot doing a great job of bring us back on course.  The down side is that we are yoyoing back and forth.

The forecast, as of this morning which will probably change again tomorrow, is showing a low on the east coast around Sydney and spreading it's tentacles north up the coast as the days go by and that then start a seperate low just south of New Caledonia.  Now I have to watch carefully over the next day or 2 to see how they both develop and see which route will be the least entertaining.  Forecast is for 4m+ seas.  I may decide to continue to go direct, I may decide to head west to skirt under the low up north etc etc etc.  We shall see.

Right now at midday Saturday wind has picked up to 20+ kts and seas are picking up, both from the aft quarter and we have just surfed at 17.1kts which is a little too fast for my liking.  

Could be lively couple of days.....

  

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