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The best sail that we have had for some time – a beam reach from Cooktown. We decided to move on after 3 hours on the bottom last night and the promise of even lower tides today. Sol Maria came along as usual and after an initial rain shower it was sunny periods and fresh winds all of the way. William departed for Melbourne last Thursday whilst Madeleine has remained on board. She caught her first big fish today – a 110cm mackerel eclipsing Wiliam’s record of 89cm.

Sol Maria found a snake on board last night which resulted in a bit lip for Shea – she bit it as she ran away in panic! We are expecting another 5 rally boats to arrive at Lizard tomorrow – just in time for Juliette’s 4^th birthday. One of the boats knows how to put photos on this blog site..... hold your breath.

Lizard is beautiful – crystal clear water, white sand and warm. Unfortunately also very windy so Simonne has lots of chain down tonight. We expect to stay until Tuesday and then do a long sail north. We want to be in Darwin within 2 weeks. We have 900 Nm to go (1750kms)

Guy & Simonne Sigston

S.V. Laroobaa