E36 – NAMTABUNG TO LATALOLA BESAR
Glass out conditions. We hauled up the anchor from 20m at Namtabung and headed west in a flat calm sea into the incredibly deep waters typical of eastern Indonesia where depths often reach the hundreds and even thousands of meters not far from shore. Out into open water, we...
E35 – SAUMLAKI TO NAMTABUNG
Checking In at Saumlaki… We found the process at Saumlaki confusing as our agent had failed to show and without internet, we were unable to reach him. Checking in shouldn’t normally be delayed by more than 24 hours, so we took it upon ourselves to check in and went...
E34 – DARWIN TO INDONESIA (PT 2/2)
Arriving in Saumlaki, Indonesia… The second part of the crossing from Darwin to Saumlaki, Indonesia saw our Raymarine main GPS chart plotter fail to lock our GPS position even with it’s own internal GPS. So, I ended up using our backup tablet with Navionics installed. This works OK, but...
E33 – DARWIN TO INDONESIA (PT 1/2)
Departing Australia… We cleared out of Cullen Bay Marina in Darwin with the Australian Border Force who we’re very friendly and had us on our way with no problems at all. Cullen Bay Marina utilizes a lock to enter and leave the marina due to the huge 9m tides...
E28 – REFUGE BAY TO CAPE STEWART
This passage would be about 80nm as we couldn’t make a direct course for Cape Stewart due to uncharted waters and needed to go north around the top of the Crocodile Islands just to be safe and sure. Cape Stewart anchorage though is also uncharted although the Cairns to...
E27 – TWO ISLANDS BAY TO REFUGE BAY
We departed Two Islands Bay, Manchinbar Island in the Wessel Group with our buddy boat ‘Lady D’ who had stepped off from Torres Strait with us. Two old mates, Gary and Will we’re delivering the new to them boat to Darwin for it’s ultimate journey to Perth via the...
E26 – THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA (2/2)
Morning of Day 2 see’s us having made about 140nm after the first 24 hour run, so even though the Gulf was living up to it’s reputation of having a sloppy sea state, the crossing was on track and the miles respectable. During the night before, we had a...
E25 – THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA (1/2)
Stepping off! We stepped off for the crossing of the Gulf of Carpentaria along with another sailing boat we had met in the previous couple of days called ‘Lady Dee’. They had departed once already but turned back due to heavy weather and this was their second attempt. Gotta...
E24 – HORN ISLAND TO FRIDAY ISLAND
Eating Tropical Lobster! Before heading out from Horn Island, after giving up waiting for our Indonesian agent to obtain our Indonesian Visa’s, it was time to cook up the awesome Painted Cray we got from one of the locals at Horn Island. Friday Island We motored the short distance...
E23 – HORN ISLAND
Waiting at Horn Island. Our agent in Indonesia had let us down big time and we were now back and forth between us and them to get our Indonesian Visa’s that should have been ready a week ago and still wasn’t ready. In fact, after paying them money, they...