Flat out on Bass Strait

Red sky in the morning at Killiecrankie, sailors’ warning!  Only we got a surprise, not the mean old Bass Strait we know and love, but a sedate, slightly boring, flat as a tack crossing, requiring both engines!  This was our 24th Bass Strait crossing and the most benign of all.

Spring sail on Take It Easy

D-Day for Take It Easy

It is D-Day for our Summer 2016-17 Cruise!  D for Departure, Decompress, Discovery, Delight, Dawdle.  Hopefully not D for Danger, Disappointment, Dullness, Dread, Drips or Damage!

It is not as bad as it looks!

You have to have faith when you embark on a serious clean up, because things look worse before they look better! But what a relief – after weeks of boat maintenance culminating in the haul-out and sitting at the shipyard for 8 days, Take It Easy is back in the water, looking good and ready…