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
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...
April 2023: A busy month.
Our last post in January brought you up to date with the knee replacement I had on the 12th January. I'm happy to report that the op was a success and that I regained full mobility within a month. There were a couple of days of discomfort when I pushed it too hard...
January 2023: New Zealand and another medical adventure.
Kia Ora! We flew in to Auckland on the 18th December 2022 for a busy three weeks, visiting friends and family. Annie’s brother Johan (Joe in New Zillund), kindly picked us up from the airport to spend the first week with him and his partner Mary Griffiths in Brown’s...
Sydney November/December 2022.
Our previous post of September/October probably didn’t reach you by email, as we were busy migrating our website from a UK host to an Australian host. That post is on our main page, if you want to catch up with our earlier news. November and December will go down as...