We arrived in the anchorage behind the marina an hour before dark. We had a day to relax and then got hauled out by the travel lift here for our antifouling paint job and other issues. We had a bit of drama trying to get into the travel lift slot. It was blowing about 20 knots and they wanted us to back in rather than go in forward. Our boat does not back very well so I had to go head in and then spin around and try to back the boat the last bit into the slot while overcoming the wind. A huge rain squall came through just as we approached the lift and the lift people were getting soaked waiting for us. After 3 trys we succeeded.
We stayed on the hard for 9 days giving the topsides a fresh coat of green epoxy, cleaned the bottom up a bit before antifouling and replaced the zincs. I also replaced the cutlass bearing as I was a bit worried about it due to the fact the boat has a slightly distorted stern tube from when it was welded in when boat was built. I always half to shave down one end of the bearing to get it in so as not to pinch on the shaft.
Actually it would have probably been OK to leave it. I also replaced the packing in the stuffing box that keeps the water out. We met lots of nice people in the yard which you chat with instead of doing work.
We got put back in the water today and all was well until I noticed some water leaking around the neck of our cooling tank reservoir with the radiator cap on top which is for our keel cooling. I had though the cap was leaking a bit and bought a new cap but now I noticed it was around the weld where the neck joins the tank. So I had to spend the afternoon removing it so I could take it in to the welder here. We just missed him as he went home early Friday. I phoned him up and he said he would be in at 8 am tomorrow so we will see what happens and hope he can weld or braze it as it is a copper neck on a steel tank.
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We did a over night sail from Mooloolaba to catch the tide at Wide Bay bar. Best time is one or two hours before high slack. Dont mess with this place. A catamaran we know went through just past low tide, it had a wave break right over stern and knock their dinghy on davits badly. Another yacht was pitchpoled recently. The anchorage at Gerrys anchorage is good though a bit buggy we anchored in 15 ft at 25 37.895
152 58.192. Next anchorage at Kind Fisher is good and very large. We anchored in 48 ft at 25 23.585S
153 01.340E more to do here also, no bugs. The anchorage at Bundaberg behind port marina is in 18 ft at
24 45.539 152 23.303 and is good we used near by beach for dinghy. Is a big garabge bin in field just before marina.
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