Maunie of Ardwall

Maunie is a cutter-rigged Vancouver 38 Pilot sailed by Graham and Dianne Keating from Dartmouth, England. We left the UK in September 2012 and after spending our third summer in New Zealand we spent the 2016 season in Vanuatu and 2017 in Australia, heading south for Sydney and then Tasmania. In 2018 we took the tough decision to ship Maunie back to the UK to resume working careers but we'll continue to sail her from her mooring in Dartmouth. Length: 11.6m Beam: 3.7m Displacement: 10,150kg Sail number: 6 MMSI Number: 235072013 AIS: Yes (transmit and receive)

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Posted: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 - 22:35

Arrived at Port Macquarie at 13.00 today (pretty much at HW) after another calm-sea motor-sail in glorious sunshine. More dolphins (including a huge pod of perhaps 40 of them close by) but an

Posted: Fri, 24 Nov 2017 - 22:12

Anchored in 4m of clear water in Trial Bay after a pretty windless 35nm passage from Coffs. Trial Bay splits the passage to Port Macquarie neatly into two but we discovered that the bar to the

Posted: Thu, 23 Nov 2017 - 21:34

Arrived in Coffs Harbour Marina after a 64 mile passage from Iluka. This was all motor-sailing with a great deal of current with us (up to 2.1 knots). Plenty of shipping to spot moving from Newcastle

Posted: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 - 10:50

Arrived at Iluka, Clarence River, yesterday lunchtime after a very good 35nm sail from Ballina. Judging the timings to safely cross the bars at each river entrance was tricky - we left Ballina at

Posted: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 - 20:31

Anchored in Mobbs Bay, near Ballina on the Richmond River, after a lovely 65nm passage from the Gold Coast. A few hours of motoring across a glassy sea we then had quite a spirited beam reach under

Posted: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 - 21:52

Maunie is back on the move after re-launch. Heading south tomorrow. All well aboard.

Posted: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 - 09:53

On a marina pontoon at the Boat Works. We came up the Coomera River yesterday in torrential rain in order to get a Raymarine technician aboard to resolve a problem with our autopilot, only to be told

Posted: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 - 13:36

We completed our 100 nm passage up the coast from Yamba, arriving at the Gold Coast at 0930 (0830, Queensland time). The wind was light so we had to motor/ motor-sail all the way with favourable

Posted: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 - 09:58

We arrived safely at Yamba Marina, at the mouth of the Clarence River, at 07.30 this morning having decided to divert here for 36 hours to allow a brief front, bringing northerlies on Sunday morning

Posted: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 - 09:47

Made good progress yesterday, with the trick of hugging the shore paying off to gain some favourable current back-eddies at times. Wind dropped away during the night so motor-sailed in calm

Posted: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 - 07:42

The southelies have arrived at last! We are about to leave Manly on a passage to the Gold Coast - 450nm / 3 days' sailing, though we might stop at Iluka about two-thirds of the way up, depending on

Posted: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 - 20:57

Back in Blackwattle Bay, Sydney after an entertaining sail up the coast. The swell was running at nearly 3 metres and we were entertained at the entrance to the harbour by one of the big double-ender

Posted: Wed, 8 Mar 2017 - 22:40

We completed the 72 nm passage from Jervis Bay to Cronulla, arriving at 19.00. The wind was around 20 knots from the SE most of the way so apart from 3 hours of motor sailing to get us in before dark

Posted: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 - 20:38

We left Bermagui at 06.00 and have had good winds from the south with big seas making for some great sailing on passage to Jervis Bay. ETA in the Bay is 20.00. We plan to pick up one of the overnight

Posted: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 - 14:41

Arrived safely in Bermagui, moored up alongside a fishing boat at the Cooperative Wharf. The crew were super-friendly and helpful with mooring lines and shore power cable (we were a welcome break

Posted: Sun, 5 Mar 2017 - 10:56

=20 Only 15nm to go to Bermagui so we should be in time for Sunday lunch. Good sailing yesterday and overnight with the wind doing exactly as forecast, swinging more to the S and increasing during

Posted: Sat, 4 Mar 2017 - 11:33

=20 d: 04/03/17 09:17 GMT+1100 As expected, the wind dropped away to about 4 kts last night resulting in 12 hours of motor sailing. The wind has returned this morning with 14 kts from ESE so we are

Posted: Fri, 3 Mar 2017 - 11:30

=20 A bumpy, sleep-deprived first night but, so far, the wind is delivering the goods. We are making good speed, goosewinged for most of the night and now reaching. The slightly confused sea

Posted: Thu, 2 Mar 2017 - 20:25

We came through the Denison Canal this morning with no hitches (thankfully) and then had a lovely sail once we'd cleared Maria Island. The wind was from the SE giving some good close reaching. We're

Posted: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 - 23:45

We arrived at our anchorage of Eaglehawk Neck early this afternoon. At that point there was bright sunshine and from the top of the mast we could see out across the Tasman Sea. By late afternoon a

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