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: Fri, 9 Dec 2016 - 09:29

Arrived safely at Camden Haven at 07.00 after a 145nm passage that had a bit of everything - 4 hours of great sailing with the Parasailor, an increasingly brisk night with poled out yankee and main

Posted: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 - 12:37

An overnight stop at the very nice and wonderfully-sheltered Yamba Marina and we're about to head south down the coast for Camden Haven, 150nm away. Timings for favourable conditions at both river

Posted: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 - 18:07

On the new pontoon at the village of Ulmarra, a couple of hours further up the Clarence River. The village is full of old wooden houses and the hotel did a very nice lunch. It's hot though - high

Posted: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 - 09:10

The temptation to stop all the traffic on the main east coast Pacific Highway was just too much for us so yesterday we came through the lifting bridge at Harwood and up the mighty Clarence River. The

Posted: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 - 09:47

Anchored at Iluka at the mouth of the Clarence River. An 'interesting' 110nm overnight passage from the Gold Coast as we had several electrical storms coming out from the coast and bringing 180

Posted: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 - 11:44

Anchored in the Marine Stadium anchorage, just south of the Seaway at Southport. This is better known as Bums' Bay as boats tend to live here (though there's technically a 7-day maximum stay, which

Posted: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 - 16:45

After our relaunch at The Boat Works on Monday following a fantastic but sweltering lift out, we'd anchored off for the final repair on our Generator. Thankfully that was successfully completed

Posted: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 - 20:34

Arrived at The Boat Works this afternoon ready for a lift out of Maunie tomorrow through until Monday (bottom scrub, anti foul touch up, generator repair and lots of other jobs on the list) . So far

Posted: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 - 20:25

After a fantastic, action-packed long weekend based in RQYS, Manly, we set sail again this morning south across Moreton Bay. Our average speed was 7 kts with just the main and yankee across the bay

Posted: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 - 21:03

A great sail from Scarborough to Manly, crossing the busy and narrow shipping channel into the Port of Brisbane. We called up VTS control and dodged various ships including the incoming Warship

Posted: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 - 19:49

In Scarborough Marina for a night after a gentle motorsail down the coast from Mooloolaba. Very pleasant and the navigation between the sand bars of Moreton Bay keeps you busy!

Posted: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 - 23:56

=20 Safely in to the Wharf Marina at Mooloolaba after an uneventful crossing of Wide Bay Bar on time at 0800. After that we were quickly under full sail followed by the flying of the Irish Flag just

Posted: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 - 17:33

Anchored in Pelican Bay, inside Inskip Point. Apparently the conditions to cross the Wide Bay Bar were as good as they get today so we hope they will be just as good in the morning - we are heading

Posted: Fri, 28 Oct 2016 - 13:43

A brunch stop at Garry's Anchorage, Fraser Island, heading south. The anchorage is behind Stewart Island but we learned that the northern entrance to the channel is shallower than it shows on the

Posted: Thu, 27 Oct 2016 - 21:15

After a week of R and R, boat work and re-provisioning in Bundaberg, we left this morning to travel south, inside Fraser Island. There are lots of sandbanks to catch the unwary and we had 2 knots of

Posted: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 - 15:27

=20 Arrived safely at Port Bundaberg Marina, Queensland. The breeze picked up again this morning so we re-hoisted the Parasailor at 07.00 and had an increasingly sporty ride towards Bundaberg - it

Posted: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 - 07:31

=20 After the previous night's squalls, we had a very pleasant sail yesterday. The wind gradually backed to ENE and reduced to 15 knots so the Parasailor was hoisted at 17.00 and carried through the

Posted: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 - 07:58

=20 Last night's increasing wind and seas saw Maunie well reefed down, allowing her to take the rain squalls with gusts of 40+ knot winds in her stride. Conditions have eased this morning so hoping

Posted: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 - 07:55

=20 Departed Chesterfield Reef at 10.30am yesterday. After a very gentle motor across a calm sea, the breeze arrived at 22.00 and we have had good sailing since, the wind backing almost easterly so

Posted: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 - 07:48

=20 Moved anchorages yesterday to the eastern side of the lagoon. This one is a little rolly but is close to islands with yet more species of birds, plus turtles and reef sharks (another boat

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