Eden to Hobart

Sunday morning 0600 and the skipper suggests politely that we GET GOING. Oh, you mean get out of my nice warm bunk, in a boat moored at a berth in Eden, after a nice meal the night before... To GET GOING across Bass straight...! OK

In Bass Straight now, Gabo Is. behind us. Winds are light and from the south east. Not like the southerly winds that we avoided by staying in Eden. They recorded 57kn at Wilson's Prom in Victoria and we had 37kn gusts at anchor, usually around 23kn.

We stayed in East Boyd bay for Thur-Sat morning when we decided to pop over to Eden (2miles) to have a look. Unfortunately we had engine trouble. The bloke who serviced the engine had chipped the glass around the filter. The result was a fuel leak (and a very pissed off skipper and crew).

We patched up the glass with tape and got across to Eden. After getting food and diesel we were waiting for the rest of the crew to get back down the road to the harbour. One of the guys from another boat noticed a auto shop still open and nicked over to get some more tape for the leak. SUPRISE! they had a spare glass bowel in stock. The shop manager even stayed ope to make sure we had the right one. Got to love that!

Off watch now so will get some sleep.