Race 6 - Day 6
Crew Diary - Race 6 Day 6
14 January

Australian Coral Sea; S024:02’ / E154:40 ’

Since my last blog, we spent Christmas and New Year well south of Australia in the cold Southern Bight.

Now, after a great stopover in Newcastle – a very genuine working town with old and modern – (helped by another race win) we are heading North up to Airlie Beach near the beautiful Whitsunday’s Islands and the Great Barrier Reef. And It’s getting hotter by the day!

1. It was too cold, now it’s too hot!
2. It was too windy, now we’re in a wind hole!
3. It was healing over at 40 degrees (life is hard), but now it is flat (easy but slow)
4. We’re longing to get into the next Port. Once there, after a few days of replenishing, we’ll have itchy feet and want to get going again.

Life at Sea and sailing generally seem to go that way – always wanting something else?

We’re so lucky to be able to go on this adventure, and it feels wrong to always want the other – cherish what you have!.

Eric out.