November 19, 2016
We set out from Port Stephens yesterday morning, bound for Broken Bay. We missed it by about 20 miles! The conditions were so good, including almost two knots of current with us, that we just kept going and arrived in Sydney Harbor, with our anchor set by about five o’clock.
It was kind of tricky finding a place to moor/anchor. There are free, courtesy moorings around the bay. If there were a thousand times as many, they’d still be in short supply. All full. Anchor? OK. We found a place that’s pretty good but as soon as it started to get dark, a big power boat anchored way, way, way too close to us. (I fixed him. I told him that we’d be leaving at 5 AM and he’d have to be up so we could get our anchor out from under his boat. It’s almost 8 AM now and here we still sit. Take that!)
We were going to try to anchor or moor while in Sydney this time. Already, I see that this plan probably won’t work out. Plan B is to try to get a berth at a marina. Stay tuned for more on this, or plan C. -Rich
Update: View from our cockpit this morning…
