Gone Cruising

We are in Tasmania! Wow!

Leaving Grassy at 5.30am with good 20knt winds started heading off towards Stanley. Just out of Grassy we lost our steering, due to a hydraulic coupling coming away, with no steering we found ourselves drifting into a reef and set the anchor, thank goodness it caught and held us until Paul fixed it. Good fun but it could have been worse. We started off again at 7.30am still with good winds and swells of about 1 metre, about halfway the winds died down to about 10 -15 knots and we went between the islands with the Three Hummocks on our port side. Arriving at Stanley at 7pm - 77.5nm taking us 13.5 hours in total.

Stanley is beautiful and historic town, with a huge granite outcrops called The Nut towering over the town. We have moored at the fishing harbor, a five minute walk to the town. The jetties are solid jetties (reminding us of Fremantle), tidal range of over 3 metres making us use very long dock lines. We feel very miniscule, the wharf and The Nut dwarfing our presence here.

Fancy that we are in Tasmania-just in time to greet the girls when they arrive.
Stanley Tasmania Photos