Double Bubble

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

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Posted: Tue, 2 May 2023 - 14:40

Well happy days & hip hip hooray, we are in the water & back at the marina with skipper currently hosing off the black antifoul, dirt & dust, inground into our beautiful deck! We have decided to

Posted: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 - 21:30

Well happy days on the slip, bonus is, the first few days had a lot of heat build up, then down came the rain, so we got held up a bit with that & now have had a lovely cool breeze blowing straight

Posted: Tue, 4 Apr 2023 - 18:01

Fortnight update, we seem to be constantly on the go of late. We had Rods cousin Kelly & her lovely friend Barb come for a visit for a few days after driving up from down south. We also had a couple

Posted: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 - 13:59

Well woo hoo, I'm back on, yay! I think maybe that last whirly gig that we dodged & ended up in Auckland did a lot more damage than we heard about here! So as a catch up, I went to Perth for my

Posted: Wed, 8 Feb 2023 - 20:27

Well we have certainly had our fair share of rain recently & barometer is going down again with curly little system off in the Coral Sea, think it will miss us, looks like heading over to Auckland on

Posted: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 - 15:09

An update on all things Double Bubble in Townsville with success at last being achieved on the drama of the anchor winch, the one thing we did not have was a reversing solenoid so this was ordered

Posted: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 - 22:14

Happy New Year folks, so glad that YIT appears to be working in 2023, thank you Mike. So lots have been going on, starting with great New Years gathering being enjoyed on the Bubble with another

Posted: Tue, 27 Dec 2022 - 19:43

Well Merry Christmas to all & hope you had as much fun as we did. We were fortunate enough to be invited up to Frenchs Beach (near Ingham - 1&1/2hrs north & spend the day & night there so no driving

Posted: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 - 12:42

Apologies for delay, I do try to keep it to f/nightly updates whilst in marinas. So today is the big day, finally the motor & reversing solenoid for the anchor winch has arrived & Rod has been flat

Posted: Thu, 24 Nov 2022 - 22:20

So I can't see the wind speed/direction or the barometer reading as I've been in Brisbane since the 14th Nov, doing my annual slave fest for my friend Michelle, woo hoo, digging in the dirt, where

Posted: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 - 14:09

We certainly have been busy, me slaving away on the sewing machine & making a constant mess, I should point out, all this sewing is on a $139 Elna, not a Sailrite Sewing machine. Skipper has made

Posted: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 - 14:09

We certainly have been busy, me slaving away on the sewing machine & making a constant mess, whilst skipper has made even more changes (read more expense) changing the saltwater feeding impellor pump

Posted: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 - 13:20

So a current update has had us catch up with some friends & get on to our job list. So skipper has upgraded our solar panel to a 400 watt, which put in 29 amps on start up (more than the existing 3

Posted: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 - 13:00

Well thats it, we've both cracked it (along with everyone else) how BOM can get it so wrong, weather not going to improve so we've bashed our way across the sea & come into our berth a couple of

Posted: Sun, 9 Oct 2022 - 15:35

Worst trip this year BOM says 10 knot E, try 20+ knots SE on the nose, washing machine seas, awful! We have anchored back at Bolger Bay, Maggie Island besides our marina neighbours Sailaway. We had

Posted: Sat, 8 Oct 2022 - 13:00

We have started our run back to Townsville by departing Haycock Island, Hinchinbrook Channel at 6am arriving at Orpheous Island 10.30am, we will stay here for the night on 1 of 2 mooring buoys and

Posted: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 - 18:30

So after a lovely sleep, skipper actually got a coffee in bed (rare event) & upon alighting got tripped up in the sheet, fell & smacked his head & shoulder on the bedsit so expecting great bruises

Posted: Sat, 1 Oct 2022 - 17:17

We have left Gayundah (still bugs/midges galore, but much better than on a full moon) & twaddled on up to the top of the channel ( past Cardwell) & gone right, around to Missionary Bay atop of

Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 - 18:53

We left from Haycock Is. & went on up the channel to check out other anchorages, went up passed Gayundah creek (eaten there in 2020- full moon) to suss out "Boat Passage" looks good & deep enough

Posted: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 - 16:18

Having departed Orpheus Island we've lined up the lead light & gone over the shallow bank along side the longest jetty in the southern hemisphere, traversed the channel & dropped anchor at Haycock

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