Leaving Australia
My Way
Mike Kopman
Sat 29 Nov 2008 03:54
Hi Everyone,
Well we're back at sea again, heading for Bali. After five busy days in Thursday Island (servicing both engines, the generator, the autopilot motor and the watermaker, plus working on the windlass and cleaning up the boat, in between catching up with friends and seeing Thursday Island - all 2 miles of it!) we left minutes before a huge thunderstorm descended on the area. It's been so incredibly hot and humid around here, with water temperatures around 30 degrees and absolutely no wind. Perfect conditions it seems for thunderstorm activity, and potentially also for tropical storm formation. We had about 30 minutes of sailing - enough for friends on the island to get some pictures of My Way sailing out of the anchorage - we dropped the sails and now we're motoring on a very flat sea. If we're going to have no wind, let us at least have these flat seas to motor across!
Regards from Mike, Sarah, Andrew, Linda, Dave and Jackie