Gary's Deliveries

Thursday 11th Dec '25 After a lovely trip up the north eastern coast of Queensland inside the Barrier Reef which I always enjoy we stopped sailing north and turned west at the tip of Australia, Cape York passing Thursday Island in the early hours of this morning. The weather so far has been amazing.  No wind and calm seas and if there was wind it has been from behind along with any waves.  Now as we cross the Arafura Sea the forecast is for much of the same. The plan is to head south of the Indonesian Islands towards Jakarta as there will be less traffic and fewer fishing boats and floating objects which would be found on the northern route. ETA into Singapore is currently around 28th Dec but i ma sure that will change.   There are 2 low systems south of Indo that I am keeping an eye on.  One of the has the potential to turn nasty but we have plenty of time to change course or slow down to avoid it if we have to.   We have been running the A/C most of the t...

 Tuesday 9th Dec  So, the plan of spending a bit of time in the Caribbean failed! We arrived in Martinique on the 28th Nov and that day I got a WhatsApp message from the owner of a boat I delivered earlier in the year from Bora Bora to Fiji, my buck list boat a Nordhavn 76 trawler motor yacht.  He asked me what my availability was like in a weeks time as he needed his boat delivered from Cairns to Singapore and he wanted it to depart on the 8th or 9th Dec.                                                          She's a beast of a boat at 76ft long and 110 tons                                                        Well, as you can see from th...