Double Bubble

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

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Posted: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 - 16:00

Left bright an early this morning (5.45am is early) in case we went straight through to Maggie but as the day progressed the wind abated to 3-5kn so we decided to come on into Cape Bowling Green for

Posted: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 - 17:00

Fairly uneventful cruise up to Cape Upstart past Abbot Point with it's open roaded coal loader, stretching 2.5km out to the ships, handling 50,000,000 tonnes of coal per annum. A fair amount of algae

Posted: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 - 20:49

Wind is finally settling down & we plan to depart in the morning for Cape Upstart (think Ayr) if weather stays as it currently appears! We have enjoyed our time here with various jobs completed &

Posted: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 - 18:45

We have met lots of lovely people here in Bowen Marina, all going either north or south and all waiting for the wind to drop from the constant 20-30 knot blow. We ended up with 24 people on our table

Posted: Sat, 5 Sep 2020 - 14:36

We enjoyed a lovely lunch with The Tramps at the Eco Resort, topped off with a cocktail each. Back to ready the boat & plot our course to Cape Upstart, hoping to make Magnetic Island by Monday ahead

Posted: Thu, 3 Sep 2020 - 15:30

We departed Double Bay East & have moved on up & through Gloucester Passage, past Shag Islet (infamous Shaggers Club annual haunt albeit cancelled this year due to Co-vid) & anchored out the front of

Posted: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 - 13:17

<p>We've left Airlie Beach and moved 2hrs up & around the coast into Double Bay East & anchored for the night to escape the swell from the constant blow that is continuing.</p>

Posted: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 - 14:27

We are still anchored at Airlie Beach & have had a couple of trips into town, collecting mail, restocking our stores, & being blown about. Much fun & frivolity was had catching up with "the Tramps" &

Posted: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 - 19:25

Had a bit of a blowy night last night with a couple of boats dragging right across the inlet amazingly not hitting anyone & ended up on the rocks, re-floated with the tide in the morning, lucky! We

Posted: Mon, 17 Aug 2020 - 12:58

After the skippers big day for his 60th yesterday we have done a 2 hour jaunt up to Hook Island and into Nara Inlet this morning, it's really quiet here, surrounded by large lush green hills with the

Posted: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 - 16:43

Hip hip hooray, we have arrived at The Whitsundays! We have anchored between Cid Island & Whitsunday Islands in Dugong Inlet, stunning day, beautiful clear blue water. Had a great day travelling at

Posted: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 - 17:08

We have left Mackay & due to northerlies after a 25nm run, we have decided to anchor on the western side of Newry Island, (think on a parallel with Brampton Island), not too many alternatives with

Posted: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 - 19:25

After the saga that is attaching existing cables with a mouse, removing & measuring old ones (obviously we replaced port & stbd) we were able to get cables delivered in a rush and genius skipper has

Posted: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 - 17:00

After a great night watching the Crows lose, we had a cruisy trip up to Mackay as the clouds rolled in with a bit of weather thats heading our way. As Mackay is a major port, (we passed 16 ships

Posted: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 - 15:00

Just anchored at Curlew Island a part of the Guardfish Cluster after a very pleasant 5hr jaunt past various islands & greeted by lots of butterflies on approach. We can finally put the dinghy in the

Posted: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 - 20:55

We have anchored at Hunter Island, rather swelly in parts along the way, tides can be up to 9 metres in spots along this coastline, and are some of the biggest in the country, whilst running in

Posted: Tue, 4 Aug 2020 - 19:07

Enroute to Hunter Island, eta 1730. I have barely had signal whilst at base of creek (though we got to sort of watch the football albeit moving modem or phone about so I quickly put this update in

Posted: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 - 09:07

We had a light sail a few hours up to Island head Creek (think kind of co-eee of Sarina) & waited for a few whales to pass before entry & have travelled down to the end of the creek in a lovely

Posted: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 - 16:30

Does not get much better than this today, absolutely perfect, stunning anchorage right at the base of South Arm, Port Clinton, just shy of the boat ramp, just rembember to fire up mosquito coils at

Posted: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 - 15:55

After after a few days, a lot of wind & rain & interesting people "Kiknbak" with drinks at the Yacht Club, in a very large marina we departed Yeppoon this morning and we are now approaching Port

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