The Schady-Muller Sailing and Travel Blog
Retirement Is Fun!
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
Latest News From Esprit
Sydney, March and April 2024.
On the afternoon of the 1st March 2024, we tied Esprit up at the Shellharbour Marina, with twelve other boats from the RMYC Cruising Division. The 100 nm distance from the Pittwater was broken roughly halfway at La Perouse on Botany Bay, south of Sydney. We had...
Sydney, January and February 2024.
As reported in our last post, we had a festive new year on Sydney Harbour, celebrating Annie’s 69th birthday with family and friends on the 1st January. A Southerly to sail back to the Pittwater was predicted for the 5th January. With Graeme and Jason Smith on board,...
Sydney, November and December 2023.
Please note: We have added a new page "Post Archive" under the pages on the right, and at the bottom of all pages. It lists the contents of all our previous posts for a quicker search in the archive calendar box on the right. October drew to a close, sailing with Ron...
Spring in Sydney 2023 – take 2.
This is a re-posting of our spring news, which was published without any photos! Spring has sprung in Sydney and we are enjoying our sailing again, after a major refit of the electronics on Esprit. Weekends have been busy with the annual Jeanneau Rendezvous, where we...
June/July 2023 – Fiji.
Early in June the Watsons and us made our way to the Pittwater RSL for dinner and a show with a ten person group playing Motown music. I love the Motown sound of the seventies and went prepared with anti-inflammatories, to dance the night away. Clearly, our age group...
May 2023 – Migration Season.
Just like the birds, cruising yachts have their migration seasons and May is a pretty big one covering all points of the compass globally. There are yachts passaging NORTH from NZ and Australia to the South Pacific; SOUTH from North Europe to the Mediterranean; EAST...