Today Coffs Harbour celebrates it's 150th Anniversary. Apparently the city is named after a John Korff who ran ships up and down the NSW coast.
"In 1847 John Korff had sought refuge in a gale in a port which he called Korff's Harbour. In 1861 surveyors changed the name to Coff's but according to newspaper and family reports Korff's name continued to be used for many years."
The is still a small islet on the Southern side of the entrance to the harbour called Korffs Islet in his memory.
There are celebrations everywhere. The whole Jetty Park area became a large outdoor market, with a lots of stalls and huge crowds.
Market
At noon there was a sail by off the Jetty, as a lead up to a yacht race held as part of the celebrations. It is still blowing around 25 knots from NNE so it is interesting conditions, but 10 boats decided to brave it. we went out onto the jetty to see the sail by, with great views looking down on the boats as they passed.
Sail past before the start of the Sesquicentenary yacht race
The market food stalls all had very long queues, so we went to the fish co-op, got some fish and chips and had lunch on the boat.
A Hanse 470, "Seal" arrived in the morning from Southport, saying they had a very bumpy ride down the coast overnight. At least there were 3 men on board to crew. She is based at RPAYC in Pittwater and hopes to head home tomorrow ( forecast doesn't look great, so it will be interesting to see if they go)
Seal ( Hanse 470) on the berth across from us
The strong winds (gusting up to 30 knots) continued all afternoon with the seaspray flying over Northern Seawall of the marina, so we huddled up inside the boat and watched the final round of the Presidents Cup.
We decided to eat in tonight and Carole cooked up a sensational meal of slow cooked Lamb Shanks on the Cobb.
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