Carnarvon to Geraldton.

This is the last multiple night leg on our adventure from the USA. The Gods blessed us with good 10-15Knot North Westerlies that enabled us to sail down the coast without drama on a dream beam reach. Even in such light winds Fifi romped along at 6.7 SOGs with all 3 sails out, what a feeling!!! We saw quite a few whales frolicking in the water as well as sea snakes. As previously mentioned we had our friend Mark with us and I must say it was nice with 3 of us doing the watches allowing 6 Hrs sleep each of the nights. Our thanks Mark and Di for being so hospitable while in Carnarvon J

As I always seem to do, we made our approach to Geraldton at night. Personally I find it easier as the channel marker lights of the shipping channel stand out so well, crossing over Geraldton bay, we entered the marina and made our way to the yacht club pens. Opposite us are the 10 Clipper Round the World 65 foot yachts. Interestingly our first yacht “Sirocco” was launched for its first time at Fremantle while the clippers were visiting there in December 2007, so with this coincidence we went and bought a weekend Lotto ticket !!!

This was a quick leg of only 282 Miles and 2 overnighters. From here down to Perth is a little over 200 miles so we are more than likely to day hope and time it so we arrive just before Jan’s Birthday.

Mike