Casting Off and Leaving the Safe Harbor

2 Sail R's, Roz and Russ at the Beginning of 2012 Sailing Season to Whitsunday Islands

Day 1:
We cast off the bowlines at 7:35 this morning, May 12 2012 after our usual restless night of pre-journey jitters. We worked from dawn to dusk yesterday, taking down sunscreens, washing the decks, tying down gear, stowing away loose objects, stuffing cuboards with sponges and rolls of paper towels to keep things from rattling, fillong the water tank, and checking systems.

Out the Scarborough Channel

The morning dawned without a cloud in the sky or a breezy ripple on the water. We are currently motoring and finding that some of the systems working yesterday are a bit problematic this morning..both depth sounders started and stopped (one is now up and the other still down) AIS wasn't working but is now with a reconfiguaration, and the radar isn't working at the moment, our green running light seems loose, and this and that. Should have this all figured out by lunch, we hope.

Swimming Beaches - Protected by string of shark nets off the coast with yellow buoys

Day 1 Sunset

We went out to dinner with Burt and Ingi on SV Boree and Brian and Jodon on SV El Regalo at the Morton Bay boat club. Burt and Ingi are headed north a day behind us. Brian and Jodon have sold their boat and will be headed back home to Texas after a few momths of travel in Australia. So happy sails and happy trails to everyone as we go our different ways.

If you want to follow our progress, click on Find Me Spot in the left column of the blog under Where in the Worrall???. We are currently motoring and headed to Lady Musgrave Reef which is about 240 nautical miles away.

All is Well with the 2 Sail R's on SV Worrall Wind