… 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 […]

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! […]

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 […]

As the sun set, we watched those magnificent straits vanish behind us. We glided into the Gulf and night simultaneously. The Arafura sea lives up to its reputation – the dull green waters beckoning a quieter and more relaxed passage. Bernardus runs around the boat optimizing everything, and soon discovers, […]

On Tuesday let’s visit Thursday (Island), and on Thursday, why not pop in on Friday (….island)? So what was the plan, ye old discoverers of limited imagination, once you’d run out of weekdays? How about Ile de 10am? Brunch Island perhaps? It turns out that Thursday is quite busy on […]