north by north east'ish

click to enlarge - anchor is Hobart, Sydney top right.

Breakfast of the long distance headbanger

Take one small frying pan, add a couple of spoonsful of olive oil and heat. Chop 3 cloves of garlic (in our case, brownish and dessicated - after all, they have come all the way from Lisbon)and slice about half a field mushroom. Add three slices of bacon and the garlic to the hot olive oil and bring to sizzle stage, then add the mushroom. Toss them all around a bit. When all looks aurifically loverly, remove from heat and keep hot. Carefully decant one dose of Dr Coopers throat elixir into a heavy tankard and administer as necessary. Put two slices of (almost) fresh bread into the remaining oil in the pan, return to heat and fry on one side (hard to do in the boat, so I just drop them into the pan), build up a sando of all the bits on one of them, cover with the other and allow the imagination to become riotous and the mind to boggle. Think Tabasco? Mmm! Open face and insert, lubricating with aforesaid elixir. Hedonistic, decadent, self indulgent gustatory bliss.

And rather better than a dry cracker with scrofules and crutch flakes.
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Iffy for am Sunday.

Position 0630 10th March 4133 14840, trip 87, DMG 57. Disappointing but not too bad considering we stopped and went backwards for about 6 hours. It dows mean that an early Sunday entry into Sydney is looking very unlikely. We would need to maintain 4.5 knots all the way, against the current.

But a lovely morning down here - the old familiar coastline south of St Helens purple in the dawn light.

Admin stuff

But first - we are unhoven and in semi hoon mode north east of Bicheno - the wind finally did what it was supposed to do and backed to the west and now SW. But it will slowly drop and we may have to motor across Bass Strait. Correction - the wind is dropping fast and the barometer is rising.

Aiming for 0830 arrival at Sydney Heads on Sunday - possible but I'd only give it evens at the mo.

Does anyone know what the east coast current is doing? I could not find the CSIRO web page while we were in Hobart.

Mark Dawson - sorry but I haven't got your email address on this computer or written down anywhere.
Steve J - likewise. I have given your mobile to Robyn Morton re arrival possibility.
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