batfishing Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 Saturday. For various reasons, I won't go into, we sat in Coffs for a few days. Boat was all good and we also were ok. One upside or downside of staying in Coffs was visiting a particularly well known tackle store. Wow!, and I didn't intend to spend any money, ah well. So we had an agreement we were heading off on Saturday Morning and doing Sydney in the day. Unfortunately an alarm didn't go off, and I think the fact the wind from the night before blew way longer than forecast, we were up late at 6am. So a rush run around, coffee, toast and we were out of the berth by 6.35am. The 5m surf break rolling into the Harbour entrance the day before, had luckily subsided to a 5m roll, so the exit was easy. We quickly settled into a 2-3M swell with around 15kn, of course head on. And ran that through to Port Stephens, where just before that it settled down. I will say, I have been out in far rougher conditions, and I have done longer stints, 28 hours from Airlie Beach to Gladstone. But this was the longest, hardest stretch I have done. We agreed 2 hour stints downstairs resting, then 1 hour after 5pm, 2 people in the flybridge all the time. We pulled into Pt Stephens for fuel, after we left the fuel wharf I had everything ready in the saloon for the generator to fire up. Toast, smoked ham, cheese, tomato, fried egg sandwiches and coffee. So all up 15 hours, and safely berthed in St George Marina. Apologies for the speed and time on the 2nd screen shot, I forgot to turn Navionics off until I got home. Unfortunately no fishing on the way back, as we needed to get back. I will go through our photos and post a few up of the trip Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 4myson Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 Really enjoyed the read . Glad to hear that Everyone arrived Safe & Well . Did they manage to locate your pallet of goods ? Out of Curiosity , What was the total fuel bill ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batfishing Posted April 16, 2015 Author Share Posted April 16, 2015 Pallet arrived in Brisbane on the Thursday after Easter, back to our warehouse yesterday......took a bit of convincing, but TNT credited the charges. Fuel bill, I would have to check as it wasn't my card, but I'm guessing roughly around $3.5 Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scratchie Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 I wouldn't have been able to help myself and thrown some lures in from Forster to Port Stephens. Look forward to the pics! Cheers scratchie!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessell1955 Posted April 17, 2015 Share Posted April 17, 2015 What an epic adventure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batfishing Posted April 18, 2015 Author Share Posted April 18, 2015 Scratchie it was hard. Particulary with a large bait ball on the sounder with 3 arches under it Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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