ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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glossieblack wrote: Mon May 29, 2023 6:21 am
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Reading this while sitting here in my cubicle farm makes me jealous

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Good to hear from you MikeyG. :D

On Monday we had a wonderful downwind sail under blue skies from Scawfell Island some 40 nautical miles to Goldsmith Island. Pics show passage route and Great Sandy at anchor in Roylen Bay, Goldsmith Island.

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Today we sailed and motor-sailed, most of the time in rain, sometimes in sun, from Goldsmith Island 33 nautical miles northwest to Shute Harbour. Wind and seas astern. Pics show passage route and our Shute Harbour approaches.

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Beautiful stop GB!!! You guys have a great time!! Jeff

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Check this out, Michael - a Noosa R barra! 8O
OK, so its a bit chewed, probably by a bull shark, but interesting none-the-less! :D
A positive benefit of climate change? :doh:

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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BarraMan wrote: Thu Jun 01, 2023 10:48 pm Check this out, Michael - a Noosa R barra! 8O
OK, so its a bit chewed, probably by a bull shark, but interesting none-the-less! :D
A positive benefit of climate change? :doh:

That's a big bite!

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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While riding out bad weather in Shute Harbour the past few days, I unsuccessfully tried to find and fix an intermitent electrical fault in Great Sandy's chart plotting system. Frustrating.

When the wind abated and the sun broke through late this morning, we decide to weigh anchor and head east some ten nautical miles to the snug all weather anchorage of Cid Harbour.

We used old-fashioned eyeball, paper chart, and compass navigation while enjoying a sparkkling beam sail from Shute Harbour to Cid Harbour. :D

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Ah, beautiful!!!. Tom
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Seems like every place you guys go it is just spectacular!

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Ah yes! Cid Harbour = bull shark playground! :help:

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Thanks Tom and Fuzz, we are currently cruising in a beautiful part of the world. :D

BarraMan, I reckon about every anchorage we have dropped the pick in this past month as been bull shark territory, because they’ve largely been wilderness or sémi-wilderness anchorages. The way I see it, it is an indicator that the local marine ecology is in good enough shape to support a food chain all the way up to big animals like sharks. And yes, Cid Harbour is a bull shark hot spot.

Today I finally figured out what has been causing the problem with the chart plotter occasionally malfunctioning.

It seems the position I installed the gps-based tracking device which has been producing the passage-route images I have been posting here this past month has been occasionally (why occasionally I do not know) corrupting the gps signal of the chart plotter.

I have turned the tracker of, and the chart plotter is not missing a beat. If this proves to be the fix, I will relocate the tracker.

In the meantime, no tracking images. :wink:

Sparkling sail under double- reefed mainsail with 25 knot winds to Nara Inlet in Hook Island, Whitunsays Queensland today. On the pick tonight in a beautiful calm abnorage. :D

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