Having had a good rest after our early morning arrival at the Southport Yacht Club, we went for a walk to familiarise ourselves with the surrounds and that evening it was off to dinner with Mike & Joy Wesslink.
Mike picked us up at the marina and took us back to their unit in Broadbeach, for pre-dinner drinks before wandering across the road to one of their favourite restaurants, Champagne Brasserie. The food was excellent and an enjoyable evening was had by all.
On Saturday we wandered up to Southport town cenre, and did some shopping at Australia Fair and in the main shopping strip. We returned to the boat early afternoon and took it easy for the rest of the day. One of the things I wanted to address on the boat was to reduce the power consumption when we are night sailing. On our trip to Southport we were using around 18 amp hours, between the navigation lights, instruments, radar and the odd bit of refrigeration. It was therefore necessary to run the engine for a while to keep the batteries topped up, we certainly didn't need any assistance with speed. I changed the Navigation lights over to LED's (got them from the chandlery at SYC), which should reduce the load by around 5 amp hours.
On checking my email I discovered that Justine was much better and the major kidney stone risk had passed. David was still coming to run in the marathon on Sunday and Justine was well enough to come along for the ride.
So on Sunday morning we walked down to where the marathon would finish to catch up with David and Justine, and maybe see him run across the finish line. It was like trying to find a needle in a haystack, but eventually we found Justine, and not long after we found David, looking a bit worse for wear, but victorious having completed his first marathon. Here is a photo he and a mate below sporting their medals.
By the time the race was over and they cleaned up, it was time for them to think about driving home , so we parted company and went back to the SYC for lunch.
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