November 6, 2016
After a six day, two hour passage, we’ve arrived in Coffs Harbor, Australia. It wasn’t too bad a passage as they go. We had almost four days of pretty nice sailing, 24 hours of nasties as we passed through a trough, and then some motoring into port. No real complaints, but in hindsight, it might have been better to wait and try to get a weather window without the trough.
During the passage, we convened a meeting of Legacy’s governing body and came up with the following:
Legacy’s new rules for picking a weather window
If there’s a trough, call it off!
If there’s a low, just don’t go,
If there’s a front, for better weather hunt.
If the wind’s from ahead, just stay in bed.
Behind the beam, twelve to fifteen,
That’ll be just nifty-keen!
All that aside, we’re here now and already enjoying ourselves. The dreaded Australian check-in went really well and pretty quickly. As we started off on the long walk to town, a nice man asked us where we were going and offered us a ride. We got to town and had big-time culture shock: We haven’t been in a modern, large mall in almost two years. That “new” experience, coupled with some left over passage brain, was almost more than we could take.
Streets, malls, people and huge, Jurassic produce!
P.S. Now that we’re in Oz, below are a bunch of new posts from Cyndi about the Able Tasman in New Zealand. Go figure! -Rich
