Position: 34 46.39 S 137 51.75 E
Moored Port Vincent
Wind: N, F1 - light air
Sea: calm Swell: nil
Weather: clear, cool

This morning at 1040 Ada and I cast off Sylph's docklines, motored out of the Squadron marina and out through the Outer Harbor breakwaters, then set sail in a light N'ly breeze to head for Port Vincent. We enjoyed a pleasant sail with the big red code zero and mainsail pulling us along at a sedate two to three knots for most of the way. Fortunately the breeze filled in a little in the mid-afternoon and Sylph managed to get up to four to five knots for a few hours. However, around sunset, which being mid-winter is pretty early at 1715, the breeze faded and we were back down to less than two knots. We pressed on until 1815 by which time we were only a short distance from the Middle Spit beacon (which we could not see as it was not lit). Here we handed the code zero and started the engine. At 1900 we rounded up into what was left of the dying breeze, handed the mainsail, and continued slowly into Port Vincent searching for one of the Squadron moorings. It was a dark, moonless night but I had the position of the mooring buoys in the GPS plotter and with Ada shining a torch ahead of Sylph from the bow, we soon located one of them and picked it up without any difficulty.

Now we shall enjoy a relaxing evening with a view to going for a short sail tomorrow morning to meet some of the other Squadron boats that are coming over on a passage race. Our plan is to move into the Port Vincent marina tomorrow afternoon to share a BBQ with fellow club members in the evening, then, on Sunday, to head back to the Squadron.

All is well.