What a day! We started the day with no breeze and a calm sea so continued motoring until around 1pm. The wind filled in from the North so we hoisted the sails and began sailing slowly SW (travelling between 5 and 7 knots) with the sea still calm. As the wind strengthened late afternoon we began shortening sails, unfortunately the head sail furler had an issue and stopped working! We had to cut the sheet to the sail to enable us to furl the sail manually. Having already furled the main we are now motoring into a SW breeze heading to Refuge Bay, which is on the east side of Wilsons Promontory.
We will arrive at Refuge Bay around 2 am tomorrow morning and plan to stay there until mid afternoon which is hopefully when the SW will swing to a more favourable direction. When in Refuge Bay, I may be out of contact, so don't be alarmed if I don't update the blog until late tomorrow.

By the way, I have noticed that some of my posts are coming up with the previous days date! Not sure why this is. I need my boys to help figure that one out :)

Thursday 20 November (7:30pm)