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Leaving Bermagui we headed north along the coast to Montague Island, passing there at about
11.30 am. Strangely enough I was speaking to the Sale Rep from New World Honda Marine
Cranbourne who sold us our motors he said that he was fishing off Montage Island on that day and
at the time we passed by. (again a small world). The port engine again started to surge a little but
settled down and we continued on through the day heading north along the picturesque coastline
which by now had changed from massive headlands of the south to more rolling hills to the water
with the occasional house well placed high on the slopes overlooking the ocean and the beach below.
We were trying to keep close to the coast at 7 nautical miles to avoid the influence of the Australia
Current which runs north to south along the east coast at up to 4 knots. The weather was kind to us
with small 1.5 meter swell coming for the south east to meet Baby 2 on the rear Starboard quarter.
My attention was drawn late in the afternoon to the skills of an Albatross gliding over the swell. I
watch the bird for over ten minutes as it dove into the gullies disappearing briefly and swooping
over the top along an invisible ridge of wind. Not once did I see this bird exert one once of effort as
it travelled for kilometres in the same direction as Baby 2. I ponder on this spectacle wondering how
nature had equipped the bird with such brilliant navigation and intuition to be able to fly on the
wind for so long.
It was not long after this the hue of darkness could be seen to the east, and slowly but inevitably
moved to put the blanket of night over us. The swell increased during the evening and it was
decided that our next stop would be Jervis Bay to transfer fuel to our main tanks in calmer
conditions. We were approximately 89 nautical miles from Bermagui. Our entry to Jervis Bay while
in the dark was smooth and we located a series of anchor buoys to the left of the entrance which we
took the opportunity to tie off too. No sooner had we stopped it started to rain and rain it did
coming down in buckets the back deck was soaking and rain blew inside the main cabin. We
refuelled and had a well earning coffee to warm us up a little. Little did I know that Baby 2 had a leak