Today is the day! We have moved out of our land based home and onto our floating home, and have cast off.
We got on board yesterday (Friday 13th) and had a quick dinner with mum and dad who helped with the logistics of getting up to Scarborough one last time.
I did 3 trips to Scarborough during the prior week and did 3 or 4 trips to the boat on each one.
On Friday we still had 7 more carts of stuff to pack. I think we are full.
Once we had most things stowed (we have 3 bags of extras we’ll send home tomorrow!) it was time to decorate Lazuli ready for Christmas.
The girls have nested and ready for the trip.
It was a long wet day, so motoring all the way down to Cabbage Tree Point (46NM).
We had to stop for dinner while waiting for the tide to come up a bit.
Today is the culmination of much planning and hard work to get us to on the water.
Many many thanks to Kristie for her amazing organisational skills and list making: it’s 100% the only reason we managed to get here!
Rough Plan:
- Spend today and tomorrow (Sunday) getting down to Southport
- Dinner with both sets of parents on Sunday night
- J jumps aboard to help sail down to Sydney
- Monday morning we depart the Seaway and head South (well, maybe a bit East - we’ll see what the wind is doing)
- Not sure where we’ll end up - could be Coffs, could be Port Stephens or anywhere in between that we can get to - we may have two good days of wind before having to find somewhere to hide out the strong southerly winds that are predicted.
As with all things (for the next year at least) we’re at the mercy of the weather gods.
If you’d like to follow our journey, our Garmin inReach will be sending regular position updates.
You can check the link here:
https://share.garmin.com/7WW9W
Note: the password is just our boat name (all lowercase)
For those of you that like looking at AIS/Marine Traffic - our MMSI is 503172130
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:9143352/mmsi:503172130/imo:0/vessel:LAZULI