Royal Yacht Club of Victoria Yearbook 2019/2020

LAUNCESTON
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was only early afternoon, so we decided
It
meander up the Bathurst Channel to
to
in the views before heading back to
take
Cove near the entrance to
Wombat
up. We decided to rig a stern line
anchor
the shore as the forecast was for strong
to
following morning was January 4th
The
we woke to an orange sky with the
and
of smoke on the air. The front had
smell
yet arrived, and the northerly
not
was bringing smoke from the
airstream
fires all the way down to SW
mainland
local cruising boat owned by
A
and Sue stopped by and we asked
Bob
where the best place to hole up for
them
coming gale would be. They told us to
the
them up to Claytons Corner in
follow
Harbour and they would show
Bathurst
it was blowing 35 knots. The deep
there
at Claytons is very limited so we
water
to be precise in placing the anchor. It
had
out that Vertigoz loves to sail around
turns
anchor, and we could not get her to
her
on a short line.
lay
boat we followed up was a converted
The
boat called George’s Bay. They
cray
for us to raft up with them on the
offered
of a very substantial anchor and
end
heavy chain which suited us just
some
fine.
rest of the day was one of those
The
“hospitality of strangers”
classic
We were invited aboard into
experiences.
heated cabin where we spent the
their
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AND
ROUND
THE
BOTTOM
By the time we got
us where to anchor.
winds in the morning.
Tassie.
day baking bread, drinking wine and
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