{"id":979,"date":"2010-12-30T02:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=979"},"modified":"2011-02-03T02:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T16:57:30","slug":"back-to-pittwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/?p=979","title":{"rendered":"Back to Pittwater"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Simon at the wheel close to Barrenjoey - some more wind now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not having a rudder was a real dampener on travelling anywhere, so no sooner than I got it back in I was itching to get moving again.<\/p>\n

Leaving Sydney harbour was a slow and gentle process with a very light westerly to waft us along.\u00a0 This is when I really appreciate the quiet of an electric motor\u2014running at only a few hundred watts it is barely audible.\u00a0 It doesn’t intrude on the serenity of sailing in the quiet of the morning but helps us along at a few knots.<\/p>\n

It feels just like sailing, but just a little quicker than the morning zephyr could manage.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Easing the sheets she opened up to 12 knots coming into Broken Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the day unfolded the wind picked up nicely until we had a 10 to 12 knot nor-easter when we arrived at Broken Bay. And after we came in the heads and cleared the shelter of Barrenjoey headland a gust came of the hill and pushed us along at 15 knots. And with Pittwater full of holiday boats it was comforting when the gust dropped away again and we resumed a more leisurely pace.<\/p>\n

It was good to be back in Careel Bay where I’d arranged a temporary mooring for a day.\u00a0 But the allocated mooring was unexpectedly occupied and while the boatyard sorted it out we took a line from Woronora moored nearby.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Peter at the wheel and his jolly boat tagging along behind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next morning I took her to her new home at Crystal Bay, just 150m from the office.\u00a0 Peter from Woronora came along for the very quiet sail to her new home. There was barely any wind at all, and again we used the motor at very low power so it didn’t intrude but helped impress onlookers with our light weather sailing skills.<\/p>\n

I now have a 5 minute commute to work\u2014rowing in the inflatable.\u00a0 Not having to drive the hour from Balmain each day is nice change.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
A forest of masts behind her at the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht club<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And already my sleep is better and my days go along much more easily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not having a rudder was a real dampener on travelling anywhere, so no sooner than I got it back in I was itching to get moving again. Leaving Sydney harbour was a slow and gentle process with a very light westerly to waft us along.\u00a0 This is when I really appreciate the quiet of an … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Back to Pittwater”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/currentsunshine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}