Saturday 12 May 2012

Tiare Taporo III at Abel Point Marina, Airlie Beach Lat.20 degrees 16' S Long. 148 degrees 43' E

Yesterday we sailed from Double Bay just north of Airlie Beach. The sail was great as the wind was the usual SE around 25 knots straight out of the point we wanted to head for so we sailed a series of tacks hard on the wind with reefed genoa, reefed main and staysail and had the scuppers under most of the time. The old girl absolutely loves this point of sailing and performed wonderfully. Again Dennis thought he was in seventh heaven and, apart from the temperature, could have imagined he was sailing her across Cook Strait all over again. We hove to off the marina and furled the sails and then called them up on VHF 09 for a berth allocation. C37 is where we are and enjoying a bit of civilisation once more.
Dennis flies back to NZ on Tuesday and Jim will remain here with the boat until the 26th. Jean is due to arrive on the 20th. That will be a red letter day!!! Tomorrow we're going out for a short sail so that Dennis can get some photos of the old girl under sail from the dinghy. It is normally almost impossible to acheive this because of course one is always on the boat so we'll put Dennis over the side in the rubber ducky and then Jim will do his best to run him down!! Hopefully some good pics will result.
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