As planned, we were up at 6.30am, preparing for a 7.30am departure for Coffs Harbour. “Rhiannon” decided to leave a 7 am and go on to Trial Bay, to make the next days trip to Camden Haven shorter, allowing them to arrive earlier without the sun in their eyes. Fine if you have a catamaran, but we need to wait for the high tide. No doubt we will see them in Camden Haven.
We set out at 7.30am and were across the bar a little after 8am, with a mainsail up and a weak SW breeze. It was a nice sunny day so the lack of breeze was more than compensated for by the scenry down the coast and the normal whale sightings, a couple a bit too close. We motor sailed all the way with the assistance of an Afternoon seabreeze and arrived at Coffs at 4.30pm.
As usual the marina was tight and by now the NE breeze was above 15 knots making getting into your berth that little more challenging. Nevertheless we were all tied up about 15 minutes later.
On the opposite side of our marina leg was a Hanse 470e called Sunboy. It had jerry cans lashed to the safety rails, so looked like he had been doing some serious cruising. It turned out that they had purchased the boat in the UK and had sailed it back to Australia. They had been on the water for over a year and said they had a great trip, the worst weather being the last few days coming into Australia.
Sunboy
We are only overnighting here so cooked a couple of steaks on the BBQ and had an early night.
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