Its the Labour Day long weekend in Melbourne so that means MOOMBA | Main | Easter at home
On Friday Eve and I stepped aboard Wind Charmer the number one vessel in the Melbourne Sailing School fleet as we took our Competent Crew Level II course, we were with Phil (a publisher from Melbourne) who was taking his skipper course and Master Stuart who was there to teach.
The course across the bay in 25-35 knots of wind (and 40 degrees of heat) we made for Port Arlington, then took a rest (visiting the Grand Hotel) then dinner on the boat and a night sail into the wind (it had turned by then from North to South Westerly) and tacked our way into the darkness, down a narrow and unlit channel all the way to Queenscliff.
We arrived a little after midnight at Queenscliff and slept on the boat, up early we went out towards the Rip in fairly slack water then sailed our way back to Point Lonsdale for lunch and back to Sandringham around 6pm - exhausted not at all - we had a dinner party to go to ;-)
Posted by crispin at March 19, 2008 08:21 AM