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Friday, May 26, 2017
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Thursday, May 11, 2017
“Stuff it Let’s just go sailing anyway ”
Where it all started
We finally set our minds to it. Everything must be sold, just like you read in the garage sale adds, “Going overseas everything must be SOLD”, but for us this also meant the kitchen sink in fact two of them. We worked our butts off renovating two houses to fund our dream of travelling the world under sail. We started renovating a house in November 2009. With the intention of earning a few dollars of capital growth from our hard work. We were enjoying the rebuilding of the 1st derelict property so much that we couldn’t resist the temptation to do another. In 12 months we have completed two total renovations transforming these homes. We hoped to sell both quickly and buy our dream.
We just got them on the market when the land was hit by some of the worst disasters in a lifetime. The South East Queensland Floods are now written in the history books claiming over 3000 homes and cyclone Yasi destroyed township after township in the north. Although our homes in Ipswich stayed dry above the flood levels it seems our timing is pretty bad for the real estate market. We only needed two buyers to fall in love with the houses we renovated but the whole real estate world seems to have stopped turning here.
Karen takes up the story
“Our dream is not unique, it’s what most people we know dream of, freedom, time to spend together and to discover the world through travel. Only our dream has a twist, Rob and I want to travel the sea on a yacht. Our dream is to purchase a yacht and sail away into the sunset, to discover the oceans and the people of this amazing world. All a bit romantic. We don’t know how long we will be away or how far our travels will take us. We are both dreamers and I think this is one of our strongest connections. I have been asking myself over and over this past few months if the dream will become reality and if we are both completely mad. To sell up and sail away. But the desire is so great and it burns so deeply that it could only be the truth in our hearts. After all we will be leaving a lot behind a great life full of family and friends and both with passionate interests that cannot be pursued on a boat. Though our children have flown the coop they are very close and have given us four beautiful grandchildren, one of which, our first granddaughter has only just been born. The mixed emotion I have been feeling lately I believe stem from the fact that we have decided to leave it all behind.
My parents did this back in the 70’s packing up us kids and heading north along the Queensland coast in a 36 foot boat to places we had never seen or heard of before. I am not sure if they either had a plan on how long they would be gone but we arrived in a small coastal town called Airlie Beach and after more than 30 years of running charter boats and a number of other business they moved back to the big smoke and family.
Though we have waited for our children to have grown, pursued careers and we are now headed for our golden years I am sure the uncertainty and the lure of the unknown is and was much the same for my parents. I feel this energy is driving us forward we have given our kids their start in life and now however selfish it sounds we want ours. Rob has been endlessly looking at boat brokers and sale guides we have clambered over so many boats I have forgotten the count in search of the boat of our dreams. At the moment we have settled on a Jeaneau or Beneateau 40-43 Foot sloop. Ideally we would like three cabins and two heads as we are hoping for family and friends to join us at times. Our thoughts were confirmed when we told our eldest son (Rod) and his wife (Kath) of our plans and explained one of the hardest thing for us to do will be to leave the grandchildren, but as they Caleb now 13 and Ethan now 8 would be old enough to fly unaccompanied to us for school holidays. Kath's immediate reaction was that the boys could stay with their other grandparents and they themselves would be coming for holiday. Cabin layout settled we will need 3 cabins 2 heads.
Rob has done most of his sailing BCM (before children and marriage), and though I was brought up on boats and know the basic running of a stink boat my sail experience was limited to the Airlie Beach Sail School for children some 30 odd years ago. So we needed to brush up on our skills that will be need to keep both us and the boat safe. Doing our theory on safety, navigation, helmsman ship, sails, motors etc.... and then following with our practicals in comp crew, day skipper, coastal skipper and taking every opportunity to sail has kept us busy and financially strapped as these courses are costly but worth every cent. Whilst not at sea our time seems to be consumed with ridding ourselves of a lifelong accumulation of stuff. The HSV was sold, the Mustang and my Yamaha are next and after countless garage sales and trips to welfare stores we still have enough stuff to fill two 6x6 sheds, how did all this stuff become part of our lives.
OH NO!! We have found the boat of our dreams and she is currently laid up in Barcelona Spain for the winter. A 40 foot Benateau fully kitted for our cruising needs. Currently the buying is so good in Europe compared to Australia we can purchase her for less than half the cost here leaving us a lot more capital to sail on. Now we need to do our research on the Mediterranean. Who could ask for a better place to start our travels, heaven on earth for sailors, language, culture, history, every 100 NM or so a new country, great food, great wine, excellent marinas and bays. An adventure we are after. Countless books on the med are purchased, read and reread to keep the dream alive. Each day Rob logs on to see if the yacht we so want is still for sale. Yes she is still sitting there and the Euro is a little weaker, great stuff. We finally contact the owners to say we are interested and tell them of the situation we are in. They understand totally as they are waiting for the sale of the boat to continue their dream (Catch twenty two). They have sailed the med for 9 years and now moving back to Sydney wishing to buy a boat here to sail the Pacific. The great thing is we are conversing with people that have lived our dream, they are full of information and inform us all of their pilot books and research of the Mediterranean stays on the boat, after nine years the boat should know its own way around. We seek any blog, book, DVD or the like to keep us focused we feel that the need to immerse ourselves so that everyday life does not suck us back into normality. I even go to the extent of cooking Mediterranean food from one of the fantastic books we have been reading. Anything to keep dreaming! Rob has now finished full time work and will be doing a little consultancy to earn a little needed cash. One month later we get word from Sydney that the boat in Barcelona has been sold. Nothing we can do other than to wish the new owners a safe journey a great adventure and we will be sure to look out for them when we finally get there. Darn! Darn! Darn!
Why are these houses not selling. We take immediate action look at the finances and come to the understanding that living here is costing us our dream. We take a radical step and phone the estate agent and lower the sale price on one property by $50K. We battle with this action as we know the extra money is equivalent to 2 years sailing, but we are serious about this and we don’t want to wait. Waiting is the hardest. OK back to eliminating clutter, next is the mustang and my bike. We will keep Robs Harley as we will need wheels when we come back to visit and one bike to store at my parents isn’t a problem. I take a part-time job and find this is at least filling in some of those hours if not boring."
OK. We find another perfect boat. A near new Beneteau 40 sitting in Split, Croatia at a price almost too good to be true. One small problem, we still own two too many houses.
Time for a board meeting to decide what the next move is for Oberg Inc. Minutes of the meeting read “Stuff it. Let’s just go sailing anyway.”
All we had to do was work out how. Enter the internet of course. Simply register on http://www.findacrew.net/ and http://www.crewseekers.net/ and find a boat to sail on and where. The Med still looked good but then an offer too good to refuse.
As a result the two houses are now on the rental market and we are heading to sea as crew members on a Beneteau 57 "Nae Hassle" with a British and Malaysian couple on June 16 for the next four months or so. We will head north from Cairns, around Cape York and across to Darwin. From there we join the Sail Indonesia Rally leaving Darwin on July 23 and sailing through the beautiful Indonesian Islands through to Malaysia.
We WILL still get our own yacht eventually but in the meantime - no boat doesn't mean no dreamtime.
This blog is for those interested in sharing our dream by following our travels. Read on through subsequent chapters to see whether we get to live our dream or experience a nightmare. Welcome aboard!
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Cruising with friends on board Versus Sailing as a couple
October 28 to November 1 - 2015
Over the last five years, we have sailed in South East Asia and Europe as crew on a number of other people’s boats, cruised the Mediterranean for two seasons on Alcheringa with a boat partner, Marc, and, at other times on our own, and most recently, sailed our new (to us) Whitby 42 ketch Our Dreamtime in Australia, often with friends aboard. So which is better, sailing just as a couple or with others?
Sailing by ourselves has numerous advantages over having other people along. We can be totally selfish through and through. It is great not having to consider anyone else about anything. We decide where we go, what we do and when we do it purely based on what WE want. If we feel like skipping dinner and making do with light nibbles and a bottle of wine at sundown instead so be it. Constraints on our movements are largely limited to what the weather is doing rather than having to worry about what day our guests need to be somewhere to catch their plane, go to work or whatever. On any particular day we rise early or late in the morning as we please. There’s also privacy advantages of course. Clothing becomes optional. When, where and how much noise you might make enjoying being a couple is of no concern.
Including our unexpected four week stay in the Port of Bundaberg Marina fixing our transmission issue, we have spent over three months with just the two of us on board island hopping the 630 Nautical miles up Australia’s Queensland coast to Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays. Despite having spent the past thirty three years together, we have revelled in each other’s company. We spent days and days lazing in the cockpit with the trade winds pushing us along and swells rolling gently under the boat. Together we’ve faced and overcome some trying conditions on occasions and unexpected boat issues. We’ve explored many new places and revisited others. We have strolled naked in total privacy, hand in hand along golden sand beaches of uninhabited tropical islands. We’ve stayed in places as long as we wanted or moved right on if we wished. Toasting the sunset to celebrate the conclusion of another wonderful day alive has become our ritual. Yep sailing alone is very, very cool.
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| Having an uninhabited tropical island all to yourselves is about as good as it gets |
However, we are both very sociable and really enjoy other people’s conversation and company. We love having people on board to share our enthusiasm for sailing and get a taste of our relatively new cruising lifestyle. Through our previous careers and social networks, we are blessed with a number of good friends from all walks of life. Some of these love a day out on the boat with us around the bay while others are always up for a weekend away sailing. While there are a number who would love to spend some extended time cruising with us, for most, the time pressures of still being part of the Nine to Five grind make it either very difficult or impossible. It’s shattering for someone to lock in a week or two off work a couple of months in advance to go sailing only to have the weather turn to absolute crap when the date finally arrives and us have to tell them the trip is cancelled.
Fortunately for the sociable people we are, there are a few some who have the flexibility to escape such concerns at times and jump aboard when and where the opportunity arises. Two of those people are great friends Anthony and Lynda. They got their few first taste of cruising with us in 2013 when we shared an awesome week sailing on Alcheringa in Sicily during our Mediterranean wanderings.
Before we headed north on our current Great Barrier Reef adventure we had extended an open invitation to them to spend some more time aboard with us if they could get away from their businesses for a while. On October 21, shortly after finally reaching the Whitsunday Islands and anchoring at Shaw Island, Rob sent Anthony a text message which simply said, ‘We’re now in the Whitsunday Islands. Why aren’t you?’
On October 28 we moved the boat from our anchorage off Airlie Beach into Abell Point Marina, gave her a big freshwater bath all over, filled our tanks, fridge, freezer, pantry and re-stocked our wine supplies. Late morning on October 22 Anthony and Lynda stepped aboard carrying just a small carrybag each. We threw off the lines half an hour later and headed out into the islands.
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| Our Dreamtime on a mooring at Stonehaven, Hook Island. |
First up was a very relaxed fifteen and half mile square reach across to pick up a mooring at Stonehaven on Hook Island for the night. While Rob and Anthony secured the boat, Karen headed to the galley emerging shortly after with a round of large pina coladas in fresh coconut shells to set the tone of the next four days of fun and frivolity.
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| Abell Point to Stonehaven - 15.5 Miles - 3 Hours 08 Minutes Average Speed 4.9 Knots Highest Speed 6.1 Knots |
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| The moorings are located quite close to the fringing reef but are very well maintained. |
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| Karen's masterpieces to set the tone of the next few days. |
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| Great way to start the fun |
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| Lynda and Anthony with their 'Welcome to the Whitsundays Pina Coladas on the stern. |
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| We had a great sunset at Stonehaven followed shortly after by a very cool moonrise. |
Next morning we sailed a circuitous 15.8 mile course in flukey winds south out into the Whitsunday Passage and then into CID Harbour where we anchored of Sawmill Beach. Cue a cooling dip off the boat, more cocktails, great food, laughs and another sunset in paradise.
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| Stonehaven to Cid Harbour - 15.8 Nautical Miles - 3 Hours 55 Minutes Average Speed 4.0 Knots - Highest Speed 7.6 Knots |
We planned to make the five kilometre round trip climb to Whitsunday Peak the next day to take in its reported stunning 360 degree views of the islands but overnight rain and a drizzling morning convinced us to relax on board instead. No point slogging up a muddy trail just to put our heads in the clouds and see nothing.
The weather cleared enough later in the day for Anthony and Lynda to go exploring well up into Dugong Inlet in our two man kayak while we trolled a line around the expansive CID Harbour in the dinghy hoping to pick up a nice fish or two. No such luck unfortunately so after a round of Karen’s strawberry daiquiris we had to console ourselves with roast lamb and a few appropriate bottles of bubbles.
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| We went chasing fish with the dinghy in Cid Harbour |
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| While Anthony and Linda went exploring Dugong Inlet in the kayak |
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| Anthony and Lynda enjoyed their own private island for a while |
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| Karen and Anthony -more fun and frivolity in Cid Harbour |
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| Who needs fish anyway |
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| CID Harbour really is a beautiful anchorage |
Sunday provided a very modest south easterly breeze for our trip back to Airlie Beach. While charter yachts motored all around us with furled canvas we were determined to sail. Up went our main, mizzen and then asymmetric spinnaker. We may not have set any speed records but we did have a very relaxing sixteen and a half mile run back. The wind angle gave us just enough room to sneak past the point of North Mile Island then we continued on the same tack well out into Pioneer Bay before gybing for home.
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| Spinnaker time |
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| Lynda chillaxing in the cockpit on the way back to Airlie Beach |
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| Rob trying to get that perfect I-phone shot of the spinnaker flying |
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| Anthony enjoyed his Blueberry and Banana Cake after lunch enough to lick the plate. All class that lad. |
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| Just after we gybed and headed into Airlie Beach |
We passed close by the huge ship Voyager of the Seas anchored in the bay giving hundreds of photo snapping tourists a good view of a real cruise boat under spinnaker. We must have looked good because boats ferrying passengers back to the ship from the shore all came close by us with even more lenses pointed our way.
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| If you prefer to sail alone imagine the pain of being on that sucker with a couple of thousand new friends. |
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| More tourists heading back to the floating city. |
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| Our asymmetric spinnaker run back from Whitsunday Island was a perfect end to some fun filled days. Cid Harbour to Airlie Beach - 16.4 Nautical Miles - 4 Hours 05 Minutes Average Speed 4.0 Knots - Highest Speed 7.6 Knots |
We dropped all sail as late as possible before anchoring off the Whitsunday Sailing Club again. Post passage beers were followed by final night cocktails, more bubbles, bbq dinner and a late night of laughs and tall tales.
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| Our anchorages in the Whitsunday Islands so far. |
We ferried our by now weary guests into the sailing club at 8.00am next morning to meet their shuttle bus to the airport for the flight back to 9 to 5 world.
For us it was back to the boat for a good sleep and a couple of alcohol free days to give our livers some recovery time.So which is better, sailing just as a couple or with others? Who knows. We love both. Tell us what you think. If you leave a comment and you have a blog, please leave a link as well. We'd like to click over for a visit and leave you a comment too.
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If you have only recently discovered our blog and would like to read how it all started, or work through our previous adventures, click the link to go back to our first blog entry. Stuff it. Let's just go sailing anyway. We hope you enjoy reading the previous posts to catch up on our story.
Friday, March 24, 2017
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Monday, March 20, 2017
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