Mersoleil

Mersoleil is a 2010 Hylas cutter rigged monohull, an H46, built in Taiwan by Queen Long Marine. A bluewater cruiser through and through, she has carried Robbie and Bev more than 50,000nm around the world from 2011 to 2020. Mersoleil will be interviewing new owners in Ft. Lauderdale by spring 2020.

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Posted: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 - 11:46

Pleasant night with very light wind and an enormous, nearly full moon. Calm seas. The charted shipping lanes inside the Grteat Barrier Reef are well used....Cargo ships and numerous fishing boat

Posted: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 - 18:28

Departed Townsville last hour bound for Cooktown to pay homage to The Great Mariner. Sunny day, calm seas, wind SE @ 10-12. There will be a nearly full moon tonight. All in all, very nice

Posted: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 - 21:35

We are mourning the death of yacht builder Nick Saull who was killed in an offshore storm yesterday north of New Zealand. What a wonderful man. What a tragic loss.

Posted: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 - 18:18

Motored overnight from Butterfly Bay to Magnetic Island, Horseshoe Bay. What a wonderful place! 2500 people live on Mag Island, just 3 miles off Townsville, Queensland. It's served by a ferry that

Posted: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 - 12:02

We've had a glorious time exploring the beautiful Whitsunday Islands and have been at anchor on Hook Island (Nara Inlet), Whitsunday Cid Harbour, now on the way to Hook Island's Butterfly Bay. We

Posted: Mon, 30 May 2016 - 13:09

Mersoleil and Amandla had a wonderful overnight sail from Curlew Island to Airlie Beach. It was painful to pass by so many beautiful islands - we would have loved to stop and spend a day or two at

Posted: Mon, 30 May 2016 - 12:48

Written on 28 May (Happy Birthday, Weezie!) this update is posted on the 30th..... We continue to be awed by the incredible cruising grounds of Australia. Lady Musgrave Island and her reef and

Posted: Fri, 20 May 2016 - 19:16

Going to bed early tonight, hoping we can fool ourselves into thinking that departing at o-dark-thirty is a grand idea. First stop will be Lady Musgrave Island at the southern end of the Great

Posted: Sun, 15 May 2016 - 14:52

Not to worry, Charlene, we're participating, too. My 18 May guess is out the window, though, because we've stayed in Mooloolaba to wait for arrival of a package tomorrow. No Houdini cage for me

Posted: Thu, 12 May 2016 - 22:18

OK, Gretchen, Lisa and Debbie and Don are registered to win the Houdini Steel Cage that protects one from crocodiles. Who will be the lucky winner? Had a lovely sail up from Gold Cost Seaway to

Posted: Wed, 11 May 2016 - 13:15

Rig repair was completed and we moved yesterday to a spot near the Gold Coast Seaway in preparation for a midafternoon departure today. We'll sail N to Mooloolaba (moo LOO luh buh, these Aussie

Posted: Wed, 4 May 2016 - 08:31

After delivering our friends to their nearby home, we've returned to Boatworks in Coomera, QLD, for a bit of rigging repair. Hope it will be completed on Friday. Boatworks advertises as

Posted: Mon, 2 May 2016 - 17:51

Picked up Joanie and David again and motored from Hope Island in still air back out to the Broadwater. Our original plan, to spend the weekend up at Moreton Island, succumbed to distance. 75nm is

Posted: Mon, 2 May 2016 - 00:00

Posted: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 - 13:38

After a wonderful holiday weekend at Tippler's Resort Anchorage we've moved back to Hope Island and are at anchor just off Boatworks. Mersoleil will be hauled tomorrow morning for antifoul so her

Posted: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 - 15:32

One might think 6 days is a long time to spend in your friends' backyard, but we had a great time with David and Joanie and plan to see them again next weekend! We've come out to South Stradbroke

Posted: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 - 12:11

Yesterday our friends David and Joanie came by to provide local knowledge for the move from Southport Yacht Club to their home on Hope Island. They left a car at the SYC (which we picked up much

Posted: Wed, 13 Apr 2016 - 12:15

Just arrived at the Gold Coast after a three day (exactly 72 hours) passage from Pittwater. It was a great trip including lots of rain to wash the boat yesterday and during the night. The East

Posted: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 - 21:19

It would be a shame to waste a travel window as good as this one, so we've abandoned the idea of day hops and are passaging directly from Pittwater to the Gold Coast, slightly south of Brisbane. At

Posted: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 - 17:48

OK! Progress! Only 2500nm to go. We've stopped at Pittwater, Broken Bay, for one last look at this gorgeous cruising ground. What a nice sendoff we received from Sydney. There were fireworks at

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