Gone Cruising

We are leaving Cape Arid on Friday 8th April at 5am
with the Yacht Azure also accompanying us, for
Streaky Bay in South Australia below is our proposed track. We have planned on a
average speed of 5kts for each day however we will be trying to achieve
greater than 6 kts as this will allow us a better tack when the winds change to
S/E on day 4.

Safety equipment carried : We
have a HF and VHF Radios , Hand held VHF and UHF radios, 3 GPSs (one hand
held) Flares and a 6 person life raft and a 406 EPIRB, hopefully the last
3 items will never be used.

We are carrying 600Ltrs of diesel and we
use 3 ltr per hr

Each red dot is a days trip and we have a target of 120
miles per day. The long range weather forecasts are good and not to blowy.

Day 1 the Start sees us with northerly winds changing
to N/NW 15/25 Kts

Day 2 sees us with SW winds 5/15 Kts (we plan
to motor sail to maintain 6kts)

Day 3 sees us with low 5kt winds (we plan to motor on this
day) and then a change to S/E
winds and these should take us to Streak Bay or Ceduna.

Day 4 and 5 sees S/E to Easterly winds 10/20
Kts


Map of where we are