The third night at sea gave us a few testing times with the wind coming around from dead astern at 5 knots to the SE for a while causing us to gybe then SW all of a sudden with a squall of 20 knots with heavy rain. We double reefed and got the poled head sail away. It fell light again soon after I came up for my watch, I shook the reefs out soon afterwards.
We spotted a few more Whales around Point Danger after a very welcoming dawn.
We made it into Southport yesterday around noon and tied up at the super yacht dock at the yacht club.
We covered 414 Nautical Miles and averaged 5.5 knots.
Today we sorted some things out on board and did a re-supply. We will move off the dock here tomorrow and drop the anchor or grab a mooring nearby to wait for the weather to continue north, perhaps on Sunday.
Brett flies out Sunday morning to head back to Tassie. He has just done the deal on a Bavaria 42 moored at Geelong which I will help him sail it home to the Tamar in August.
All is well on board and looking forward to another long uninterrupted nights sleep again tonight
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