The Adventures of Captain Ray Penson
Sailing Yacht Truce
Saturday morning and the weather looked good, not much wind at our anchorage in Kairara Bay but hopefully more outside. Keen to get going I started the engine and weighed anchor. By sunrise we were heading out of Port Fitzroy and feeling the first heave of the easterly swell.
Sailing season opened on the 1st January. Unfortunately the weather forecast was atrocious for the week, so we delayed departure. This decision turned out to be correct, nasty easterly winds and plenty of rain made the first week of the New Year a wash out.
The anchorage at Smokehouse Bay provided another perfectly calm night. We arose later than usual and with no place to go and no hurry to get there we pottered around all morning doing odd jobs and relaxing. The afternoon came and went and we had no inclination to do anything energetic. The weather was unseasonably... Continue Reading →
07:00 and flat calm, not a breath of wind as Ngozi and I let go from the marina at Hobsonville. Slowly we made our way out of the marina and over the shallow patch into the marked channel. Then a bit more speed as we opened up the throttle and hit seven knots. What a... Continue Reading →
The Adventures of Captain Ray Penson 