At the end of the peninsular its about as remote from Sydney metro you can get, and still be within easy reach of it. The people are friendly and helpful – I’ve already been offered a job, and the use of a pushy. Both of which I turned down.
The free tender service offered by the marina here is really cool – a quick call and one of the lads scoots out in a dinghy to pick me up. The dinghy lads are schoolies – what a great job for the holidays. And these boys sure can manouvre the dinghy with precision.
Its taken the last few days to repay my the sleep debt from sailing down here. Even though I spent enough time laying down with my eyes closed, I find it difficult to sleep, especially when she’s sailing over about 9 knots. In the bow where my bunk is, it gets quite noisy. But now I feel rejuvenated.
I have quite a long list of small projects to do – three pages long. Including fixing some things that broke on the way down such as a couple cleats that pulled out of the deck when going out through the Gold Coast seaway.
After two days of overcast, today’s sunshine will go to making water and charging the engine batteries. But I still want to do another full drawdown test to check if the batteries are balanced yet – I think there’s more to go. So I’m running the batteries down to empty again today. With any luck there’ll still be sunshine after I do that and they can stat charging again.