The Schady-Muller Sailing and Travel Blog

Well, the storm lasted for well on 30 hours - torrential rain and wild winds. After midnight last night, the wind abated and we woke up to a sunny day this morning - the wind have shifted 180 degrees to the West. The water in the marina is a muddy brown from the run...

Our last post from Byron Bay showed a photo of huge Cumulus clouds rolling in from the East. This was a precursor to an East Coast low developing right here. When the wind turned East, we realised that it was time to get to Tweed Heads or the Gold Coast Seaway to get...

Time moves on! Since the Clarence river, we have had an excellent sail to Ballina where we have spent 3 nights. Karen visited us on Sunday evening on the boat on her way back from Brisbane where she attended a course. Mike Wiley also joined us for a drink after racing...

We are now in Ballina, but first a report on the time we enjoyed on the Clarence River. If you look at the Clarence river on Google Maps, you will see that it is quite a river navigable all the way up to Grafton. We entered the river at Iluka and Yamba and after...

We decided to stay in Coffs Harbour for two nights as I had to fit a replacement water level sensor to our number 1 water tank. The instrument showed half a tank (150l), but the tank was empty. Before departure in Sydney the agents replaced the number 2 tank sensor as...

The distance from Port Macquarie to Coffs Harbour is about 68 nautical miles, so in a fair wind we can easily manage 6.8 knots which equates to a sailing time of about 10 hours. We therefore departed Port Macquarie at 7 am on flat seas with a predicted 15 - 20 knot...