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: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 - 23:24

We have just completed another Twofold Bay Shuffle after a busy day in Eden - shopping, lunch at Fisho's, the Fisherman's Club (excellent fish and chips, as you would expect), and a visit to the

Posted: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 - 22:23

The wind is from the NE today so we motored across to anchor in Snug Cove, the port of Eden, in bright sunshine. Anchored in 10m of water just outside the local yacht moorings and there's a good set

Posted: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 - 16:57

The wind strength and direction continued through this morning and we arrived into Twofold Bay, Eden at 14.00. We're anchored in East Boyd Bay, beautiful for its beaches and rocky peninsular and not

Posted: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 - 09:21

On passage to Eden. We left Jervis Bay at 19.30 yesterday and, as forecast, the wind increased through the night - up to 30 knots NNE at times. We are running, goose-winged and reefed and making

Posted: Thu, 12 Jan 2017 - 12:12

We moved over to anchor off the lovely white beach at Vincentia. There is one public mooring about 500m along the beach to the east of us. The bay would be pretty exposed to strong SE to N winds but

Posted: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 - 13:09

Just completed another Jervis Bay Shuffle back to the south side of the bay. Flat calm, bright sunshine and hot, hot, hot at the moment but a southerly wind is forecast for this afternoon. It looks

Posted: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 - 19:00

A gentle, sunlit sail across to a public visitors' mooring off the little seaside town of Huskisson. A very good butcher and bakery, plus a rather limited mini-supermarket, allowed us to replenish

Posted: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 - 20:39

After checking the 16.00 forecast, we did indeed head out on passage to Eden, looking forward to the forecasted wind blowing 10-15 kt from the N. We knew we'd need to do some motoring which wouldn't

Posted: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 - 14:15

We have just picked up one of five visitors' moorings near Hole in the Wall (an obvious rock formation on shore to our east) having completed what's known as a 'Jervis Bay Shuffle'. The bay is so big

Posted: Sun, 8 Jan 2017 - 11:22

A cracking sail south to Jervis Bay yesterday. The original plan to depart the day before was scrapped as we had heavy rain and no wind all morning - even the J24s taking part in the Australian

Posted: Fri, 6 Jan 2017 - 08:35

The first leg of the southward route to Tasmania was a short hop down the coast to Port Hacking, south of Botany Bay. A slightly rolly sail but the Irish Flag spinnaker gave us good speed, with a

Posted: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 - 11:26

Anchored back in the very sheltered Blackwattle Bay as the wind goes southerly.

Posted: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 - 11:26

This was our anchorage for the stupendous NYE fireworks! Hundreds of boats in very close proximity (and 14m depth t this position) but luckily the wind dropped to nothing in the evening. It was just

Posted: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 - 12:12

We caught the 08.30 Spit Bridge opening to sail only 4 nm across to Watsons Bay. We're very excited to be well positioned to watch the start of the Sydney- Hobart Race as it passes by. With the

Posted: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 - 09:53

Happy Christmas from Maunie! We're in Middle Harbour, near Cammeray, on a mooring belonging to friends we met Vanuatu. Yesterday saw us tick off that iconic sailing moment - going under the Sydney

Posted: Fri, 23 Dec 2016 - 23:02

This morning we dragged ourselves out of stunning Pittwater; we say this as Sue and Ian have been wonderful hosts during our stay, we've met some great people and experienced the fabulous Woody Point

Posted: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 - 18:29

We have fallen on our feet! Sue and Ian, whom we met in Vanuatu when they were guests aboard Sel Citron, have lent us their mooring off Newport at the southern end of Pittwater. Wonderfully generous

Posted: Wed, 14 Dec 2016 - 21:19

=20 Our first disappointing coastal sail in Australia today - the forecast was for strong winds to start then 15 to 20 knots from the NE but we got very light breezes and had to motor-sail for all

Posted: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 - 19:20

We left safely through the bar at Tuncurry-Forster at 0730 and enjoyed another epic sail mainly under Parasailor (aka The Big Blue Monster). Our destination was the spectacular Port Stephens which

Posted: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 - 08:21

An excellent sail yesterday to Forster, spinnaker flying most of the way until we swapped it for the foresail to slow down a bit (to get the tide right for the bar entrance). The entrance was a bit

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