08 May 2012 Day 3 on the slow boat to Lord Howe. Master Chef Animal is excelling himself – papaya with lime, tomato juice, muesli and posh coffee for brekkie after the roast chicken-with-everything dinner last night, with candles and tablecloth and white napkins and last but not least the […]

06 May 2012 Gurus head East – hopefully to warmer conditions ! Check the added photo album ‘Au Revoir’ in MORE PHOTOS. Don’t know why it doesn’t appear as an album. Miss you motley crew already. PS Mike your photo was posted upside down so I replaced it .. x […]

04 May 2012, Greenwich Flying Squadron Question: exactly what would it take to make Resolute settle comfortably down onto her waterline? Answer: A lot. Then a pile more. About 800 litres of diesel; provisions sufficient to sail ‘to Hawaii and back’ (so quibbed ‘provisioning mate’ Bill when he saw Mike’s […]

14 April 2012, Sydney Harbour Gleaming. Glowing. Glistening…. Has she been botoxed? Resolute never looked better, that’s for sure. That infinitely long to-do list has been decimated after a week at Newport Marine Services (thanks guys!). Now for the really big issues. Sashimi knife? Check. Musical instruments? Check. Coffee machine?

10 April 2012, Pittwater All systems go… a quick blast north in a 25kt southerly last Saturday convinced the Gurus that Resolute is indeed ‘a goer’. Today she went up on the slip – after some tense manouvering of a 26 foot wide boat into a 27 foot wide pen, […]