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Today's the day we begin our sailing charter of the Whitsunday Islands. We arrived at the Proserpine Station a few minutes after 4am. The cab was not there waiting for us so we called to have him come get us. After talking with the cab driver we decided to wait at the shopping plaza for the BiLo grocery to open.
A nifty little coffee shop was our source of breakfast, including pancakes with ice cream. We learned about this breakfast treat on the train out of Brisbane. They served it at "Tea" time, 9:30am.
Mom shopped for provisions at BiLo while Dad got chicken and burgers at the butcher shop next door. The burgers were heavily seasoned and fashioned into 1/4 pound balls.
We got another cab, a small van. We needed the van since we had our 5 bags plus 3 grocery carts (trolleys) of food.
The people at Cumberland Charter Yachts were great. They immediately introduced us to Peter who helped us load all our gear and food into a large trolley and wheel it immediately to "Temptress", our Beneteau 361 (12 meter) home for the next ten days.
After we got everything stowed, Peter showed us around the yacht, including flushing only 2 squares of toilet paper at a time.
Peter took us out of the dock for a "test spin." We raised sails in about 8 knots of breeze and tacked once. Then he jumped into a spare dinghy he had tied alongside earlier and the Murphy's were SAILING!
We sailed across Whitsunday Passage
from Abel Point Marina and found our first excitement was a rusty old freighter that was on a collision course with us from the north. We changed course for five minutes to let the freighter pass, then continued on to Nara Inlet in Hook Island for our first anchorage.
My wife loves the electric windlass for raising and lowering the 35pound CQR anchor. We anchored 2.17nm into Nara Inlet per the GPS. It was glass smooth with absolutely no swells or waves.
Today's the day we begin our sailing charter of the Whitsunday Islands. We arrived at the Proserpine Station a few minutes after 4am. The cab was not there waiting for us so we called to have him come get us. After talking with the cab driver we decided to wait at the shopping plaza for the BiLo grocery to open.
A nifty little coffee shop was our source of breakfast, including pancakes with ice cream. We learned about this breakfast treat on the train out of Brisbane. They served it at "Tea" time, 9:30am.
Mom shopped for provisions at BiLo while Dad got chicken and burgers at the butcher shop next door. The burgers were heavily seasoned and fashioned into 1/4 pound balls.
We got another cab, a small van. We needed the van since we had our 5 bags plus 3 grocery carts (trolleys) of food.
The people at Cumberland Charter Yachts were great. They immediately introduced us to Peter who helped us load all our gear and food into a large trolley and wheel it immediately to "Temptress", our Beneteau 361 (12 meter) home for the next ten days.
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| "Temptress" was a brand new Beneteau, only used by one client before us |
Peter took us out of the dock for a "test spin." We raised sails in about 8 knots of breeze and tacked once. Then he jumped into a spare dinghy he had tied alongside earlier and the Murphy's were SAILING!
We sailed across Whitsunday Passage
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| Courtesy of: http://chachaetjojoenaustralie.blogspot.com/ 2013/11/la-mer-bleu-turquoise-des-whitsundays.html |
My wife loves the electric windlass for raising and lowering the 35pound CQR anchor. We anchored 2.17nm into Nara Inlet per the GPS. It was glass smooth with absolutely no swells or waves.
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