The wind was supposed to get to 25 knots meaning a quick sail across to Coromandel. It didn’t eventuate ranging from between 5 and 15 knots with a fairly rough swell. Sloppy as Gavin said. Meant a slightly queazy sail. Had a reef in the mainsail and sailed with the genoa and the cutter.
Anyway is a solid 13 tonnes and is sailing really well but today’s wind and swell combination wasn’t ideal. However no rain and it looked as if there was rain over Auckland. Certainly not warm though, a heater in the boat would be good but as there isn’t one lots of clothes are required.
I have a lot to learn to be able to do things quickly enough if it gets rough. Piked out today on stowing the cutter back in the bag when the sea was a bit rough. Will practice while at anchor. At least we tried out our new lifejackets, very smart and of course serviceable. Identical apart from the PLB hanging around mine.
Arrived at Coromandel at about 3.30, a 3.5 hour sail for c. 25 kms, we are now anchored of the north end of Coromandel Harbour in McGregor’s Bay near to the town but won’t go ashore until tomorrow when we will spend the day mouching around the town and being tourists.
We are adding some personal touches to the boat, one of Gavin's contributions is above him, hence the smile, its a chubby scantily clad lady who looks absolutely nothing like me!
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