Double Bubble

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

Posted: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 - 19:17

We have left our lovely little anchorage at Turtle Island (excellent holding, lots of water & protected from most directions), the whole place to ourselves, so after swanning around in the sun doing

Posted: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 - 17:37

Departed Bustard Bay at 7.30am & had a cruisee 7-9 knot sail to Gladstone with a few turtles spotted along the way. There are a multitude of anchorages to choose from depending on wind direction so

Posted: Sun, 12 Jul 2020 - 02:30

Thanks to a friend in Adelaide, we made some new friends in Bundy who were kind enough to loan a car to us for supplies & invited us for a bbq & watch the footy, lovely people & great night. Due to

Posted: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 - 13:49

We have just tied up in the Bundaberg Marina for 2 nights (fingers crossed) as it's pretty hard to get fuel & fill gas bottles etc in Bundy, they have a pick up/drop off into town here or to Burnett

Posted: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 - 13:03

Have ended up changing my mobile service over so after a few lovely days anchored in the Burnett river, groaning at football, and catching fish (even keeping some whiting, we don't know what the

Posted: Wed, 1 Jul 2020 - 19:23

We have finally gone above 25 degrees South, our stop point until the end of cyclone season (30th April), then along came Co-vid 19 & no travelling, so 2 months later we are anchored up the Burnett

Posted: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 - 18:17

We departed Sth White Cliffs & decided that we should have anchored slightly further north where the wrecked ship & ruined pier is, would have been a more favourable anchorage in the Southerly away

Posted: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 - 21:25

We have decided to stay here at SW Cliffs another night & bypass Kingfisher resort tomorrow as it's apparently a bit dodgy for holding, also wind on tide is not particularly pleasant at the best of

Posted: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 - 16:18

Lovey trip travelling through the Great Sandy Straits up to anchor for the night at South West Cliffs, just below Ungowa, Fraser Island on a parallel with Maryborough, Qld (recommended by Gypsy

Posted: Thu, 25 Jun 2020 - 16:41

After an incredible, star filled sky under the Milky Way last night, we left Rainbow Beach at 8am & have successfully crossed Wide Bay Bar with under 0.5mtr swell, 15kn winds, the bar itself at

Posted: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 - 19:47

We departed Mooloolaba at 8am & have arrived at Double Island Point at 4.30 in very clear water. With a very non eventful cruise with winds swinging between 6-10kn NE to "on the nose", got excited

Posted: Mon, 22 Jun 2020 - 18:16

Hip hip hooray, we have left Moreton Bay, back in the Coral Sea & arrived in the Sunshine Coasts' Mooloolaba Marina at 14.30 for the next 2 nights prior to heading up to Hervey Bay. Not a bad trip up

Posted: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 - 16:05

Well like every other cruiser heading north we are all biding our time w/ jobs onboard waiting for the weather window to progress (currently 38kn at Double Island Point, does not make for a good bar

Posted: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 - 17:10

We have up anchored from Deception Bay, Scarborough (above Brisbane) & motored on up the channel into Newport marina to hide out for a few days & wait for a weather opportunity to progress further

Posted: Sun, 7 Jun 2020 - 18:08

We have left Tangalooma, Moreton Island (thank heavens) & gone over to anchor overnight at Deception Bay, Scarborough. Tangalooma is nothing like the pictures you see or on the wall at Boatworks

Posted: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 - 17:27

Well we have finally made it to the wrecks at Tangalooma, our 2nd time at Moreton Island (last time Feb 21)! Have cracked champagne & we will explore the rusted ships put in place as a buffer from a

Posted: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 - 12:29

Returned back to Raby Bay to do what we hoped was final stores & fuel up prior to departing either to Mooloolaba or straight through to Hervey Bay (inside of Fraser Island) but the weather has other

Posted: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 - 13:56

After having had Michelle stay a few days, skipper fitting hydrofoils to "Bigger Bit" (or BB for short) the adjustment of davit system to 2:1 pulley's, & version 18 of bow roller complete we now

Posted: Tue, 26 May 2020 - 19:22

After a fun night aboard Tramp II for dinner we left Macleay Island today to return to Raby Bay with "the Tramps" to collect new smaller fuel tank for our tender, a couple of AUS Charts we neglected

Posted: Fri, 22 May 2020 - 19:55

We left Raby Bay for Macleay Island yesterday to rendezvous finally w/ "the Tramps" after their jaunt on the slip. So with a catch up for morning tea the day spiralled into the wee small hours of

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