Whtisunday Adventure

The last 2 weeks I (Sue ) did a "mile-catcher" with Sunsail to increase my experience.

The Whitsunday sailing adventure was supposed to be an arduous slog for which I had brought wet weather gear , beanie and polar fleece but if you bring all that stuff ..well ..you dont get to use it. It was hot and downwind 15-20kt which required the iron headsail to get it up to a respectable speed. The most onerous aspect of the whole trip was trying not to keep up with my fellow crew members sundowners. The second challenge was not to be stung by the lethal Irukanji jelly fish.

The boat was named "Girofle" (? a bunch of cloves or a town on the French island of Reunion) was a Jeanneau 45 and the skipper Joel, and second in command Mark and the supernumerary Sheepy taught us well so that we got to where we intended and anchored securely even after dark. We were intending to sail from Hervey Bay but the trip South was truncated by awful weather sothat we boarded her at Gladstone but still managed to get the 300 miles sailing experince necessary for the Coastal Skipper qualifications.