From Brisbane to points South

Broken Bay

SeaEagle63 — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:26:00 +0100

Our sojourn in Newcastle ended Thursday 11th, when Sea Eagle was again fit to go to sea.Insurance sorting took...

America's Bay

SeaEagle63 — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:23:00 +0100

America’s Bay

Entrance to Broken Bay

SeaEagle63 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:22:00 +0100

Entrance to Broken Bay

Lord Howe to the Mainland

SeaEagle63 — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:16:00 +0100

After conferring with most helpful met-man Reg (?) on monday afternoon, we decided to ‘enjoy’ the good calm weather...

Still on Lord Howe Island

SeaEagle63 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 02:06:00 +0100

Sunday 23 nov: Drama yesterday. A thunderstorm developed over the north mountains in the afternoon a...

On Lord Howe Island

SeaEagle63 — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:04:00 +0100

We’re still here! The weather has been quite un-summerly, with strong, cool winds and yesterday, heavy rain.<...

Iluka to Lord Howe Island

SeaEagle63 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:42:00 +0100

Wednesday afternoon, 12 November, the forecast in weather and wind looked more in our sailing-favour, with a four day window of more no...

Back down the River Clarence to Iluka

SeaEagle63 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:32:00 +0100

Thursday 6th November we walked in to Grafton town and bought fresh fruit and veg from the street market. Straight from the growers. Keep much long...

Up the Clarence River to Grafton

SeaEagle63 — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 01:22:00 +0100

We left Yamba at high tide carefully following the leads to avoid any more sandbanks, through the "Hole in the Wall" and up the C...

The sand bank at Yamba

SeaEagle63 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:10:00 +0100

A roller coaster ride at the entrance to the Clarence River brought us into calm waters and the prospect of a friendly marina at Yamba. But oh dear...

Off Cape Byron

SeaEagle63 — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0100

The most easterly point of Australia passed at 5am. On southward in a variable strength wind and increasing seas, uneventful unti...

N of Cape Moreton

SeaEagle63 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:40:00 +0100

Out into the Coral Sea. Here we had our third mishap – the forward hatch above the main cabin was not closed securely and as we beat into...

Second Start

SeaEagle63 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:27:00 +0100

From Brisbane shiplifts we motored down the rest of the Brisbane River and in calm and sunny weather across Moreton Bay in Main Channel, ...

Down the Brisbane River

SeaEagle63 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:58:00 +0100

John, my sailing companion, arrived from Norway on 9th October and after almost 3 weeks working on getting Sea Eagle shipshape we finally ...