Today was pretty much like yesterday, beautiful weather,but once again the wind died off about 11. I tried out my blooper (a type of spinnaker). after struggling for about an hour up on the fore deck to get it sorted and getting it deployed, the wind died down to about 2 knots and it was pretty useless. I did get about 15 minutes of sailing with it though. Saw one whale about 20 meters finre off the port bow, I altered course to avoid it and started the engine, as soon as he heard the engine dived and I never saw him again.
I'm currently at anchor in Coffs Harbour, with a teperature of 25 degrees, lovely!
There is a northerly forecast in the next couple of days, I'm just waiting for the weather forecast to see what it will be like for tomorrow. I want to get to Clarence River before dusk tomorrow evening, it's about a 15 hour trip so i'll be getting underway by about 2:30 in the morning, so its an early night for me tonight. Probably won't write a blog tomorrow, wait 'til Thursday when I'm having a couple of days off in Iluka
Thanks to all those people who have sent emails wishing me well.













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