Double Bubble

15 metre Kelsal Tonga Catamaran. 15.2m x 7.1m 1x1m Fibreglass.

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Posted: Fri, 13 May 2022 - 13:40

It's 1 year today, since my little medi vac chopper ride off Fitzroy Island & being Friday 13th we are holding off until tomorrow to depart the marina & hang off Maggie Island for a few days, check

Posted: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 - 16:07

Well finally we are back in the water, back at the marina for the proverbial clean up. Rod pretty much did everything himself & in record time as I did the hospital thing again & as is typical it

Posted: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 - 21:52

I'm excited on so many levels, we are out of the marina (yay), we are finally on the slip (poo, but yay) & not long before we get back out on the water, hooray! So we were going up last week, night

Posted: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 - 14:04

We should be in the slings right now, as the plan was to slip the boat today however there is a rather narly little whirlygig spinning up offshore so we have chosen to delay being on the hard, just

Posted: Wed, 16 Mar 2022 - 20:25

We arrived back in Townsville this Friday gone, the temperature is now quite lovely as opposed to stinking hot here & a tad chilly (socks, jumpers, & beanie) in Adelaide when we left. We've both been

Posted: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 - 11:28

I'm writing this whilst sitting at Palermo's Restaurant in North Haven, South Australia waiting to surprise my old boss for brekky today. Prior to our departure to Adelaide we spent an arvo with

Posted: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 - 02:30

So we had a lovely catch up with Georgia & Aayden & then with Michelle staying for a night, then she was off to Tully for a week whilst Kerry got into full party planning for my 60th, then

Posted: Fri, 11 Feb 2022 - 12:28

So after the initial lightning & thunder storm that Georgia & Aayden flew in on last week (which thankfully cooled the town down) the weather came good so we managed to get away yesterday to come

Posted: Wed, 9 Feb 2022 - 23:30

With the arrival of Georgia & Aayden we have secured a rental car & driven up to Cairns & wandered through the Kuranda Markets then drove down to Palm Cove for tea & then off for the night at Micky's

Posted: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 - 16:25

Ater having had visitors for a huge roast last night that the skipper whipped up, I'm enjoying a lazy Sunday arvo, whilst Rod is back to the A/C, checking, clearing hoses etc. Not a great deal

Posted: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 - 16:46

Finally, we have a cool sea breeze as disgustingly hot @ 39 deg 67 humidity a couple of hours ago with skipper head first in cupboards fixing/clearing saltwater intake on air-conditioner, of all the

Posted: Wed, 29 Dec 2021 - 13:57

Well Christmas has come & gone for another year. We had a fun night at the marina Christmas party, even taking out the "fairy light" competition (there's a story there) & a fun day at the orphans

Posted: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 - 13:27

Current update, we have a strong wind warning here in Townsville as the rest of the east coast continues getting smashed, bit of a curly brew going on in the Coral Sea but I think that will bypass

Posted: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 - 12:35

Nearly 3 weeks later I have returned to Townsville, flying through the massive easterly rain front, the clouds were crazy amazing, thick as, just a tad bumpy! Skipper finished helping out friends who

Posted: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 - 10:17

Well little update, as Rod helps several people onslip, sanding, polishing & propspeeding, we had a catch up with "The Starship" & "Das Almos", & had a great night with Duet & Michelle & Alan from

Posted: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 - 14:02

Well that's it folks, due to my health issues we didn't get to do what we wanted & sail up as far as we'd planned but it is what it is & we have still managed to have some really great times with

Posted: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 - 17:45

Boats have come & gone whilst we on Double Bubble have chosen to stay a little longer prolonging the inevitable marina return for cyclone season next week, so we were lucky enough to catch up with

Posted: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 - 14:02

We had an early departure at 6am from Macushla Bay & just picked up a mooring at Orpheus Island to sit out the expected 25 knot northerly this afternoon & tomorrow. All alone at present although

Posted: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 - 16:50

We departed Mourilyan Harbour 6.45am & dropped anchor just atop of "Bugsville - aka Hinchinbrook Island" in Missionary Bay - Mucushla Bay 2pm. We will spend the night here & wait to see what the

Posted: Sun, 17 Oct 2021 - 17:00

Don't faint but we actually got to have a lovely quiet sail today on our way down to Mourilyan Harbour, it certainly has been awhile! There's the usual strong wind warnings for much of the east

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