Archive for September, 2016

Lombok bound

Day 1 Well it’s 7pm in the star bar and Ressie is revelling in the most spectacular cruising breeze with a sunset worth sailing into! Actually, unusually for this crew, words fail us doing justice to how spectacular this feels! We have separated considerably from the fleet… We are the […]

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Race Day

… Turns out all we had to do was drop the ‘t’ and ‘trace day’ effortlessly manoeuvres into ‘race day’! The lock system ran like clockwork… Boats in and out with lock master banter and Ressie throws off her marina shackles as we head to the start line. The start […]

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Trace Day

It’s all about “Trace Day”….(forget that our Rally starts tomorrow and Ressie has to be ship shape!) ) …The midnight elves sprung out of nowhere and decorated the boat in true nautical polka dot, birthday style…. Balloons, streamers, lanterns, party hats and trivia transforming Ressie. Squeals of surprise on awakening! […]

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Farewell Darwin!

Ressie is ready… Her cushions are plumped, her decks sparkling… The safety audits are safely audited and she is provisioned to within a millimetre of her capacity…. Buy Woolworth shares… The ressie crew shopped up a share-rallying storm. Darwin is hot… But the beer is cold and the locals are […]

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