Winter Solstice Sailing

We wished them fair winds, following seas and starry nights, and that’s what they got for their first 26 hour leg!  They sailed into Eden and decided to stop there rather than try to push on before the Northerly change.  They will be comfortable at anchor overnight, and may try and motor early in the morning…

Awesome foursome heading North!

This is it, the Take It Easy crew has left the Gippsland Lakes, bound for Tin Can Bay in Queensland, some 900 nautical miles North!  For Wade it is an exciting mission.  For crew, Mike & Merv, it will be a thrilling experience, as for Bengie the ship’s cat…well, it’s better than “jail”!

sv-takeiteasy is one year old!

A year ago, we took our first steps into running our website.  They were tentative and a little scary! Taking the plunge into the blogosphere has been very rewarding as it has allowed us to interact with people of similar interests all over the world. When anyone asks ‘why do you do it?’, we can think…