I think the last one began ‘Seems our daft venture has begun…’
We’re off Long Reef-- As a verb – to shorten sail, to use reefing lines or other techniques to make the working part of a sail smaller and so reduce its power as the wind rises. --- As a noun, (1) the part of the sail that has been shortened, folded or rolled. May be referred to as a slab or a slab reef which is a particular way of forming a reef.
-- As a noun (2) – a bank of coral, rocks or other obstruction usually close to a shoreline and potentially dangerous to sailors. heading north. Wooohoooa primitive, exultant, gibbon-like call given out by an old geezerDictionaries define a geezer as an old person, generally an eccentric old man. Its origin likely in the word masquerader (colloquially, guiser) from Middle English gysar. Go figure, as the Americans say.; many variations as listed, in order of emphasis:
Woohoo
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WOOOHOOO
WOOOHOOO!
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOa primitive, exultant, gibbon-like call given out by an old geezerDictionaries define a geezer as an old person, generally an eccentric old man. Its origin likely in the word masquerader (colloquially, guiser) from Middle English gysar. Go figure, as the Americans say.; many variations as listed, in order of emphasis:
Woohoo
Woooohooo
WOOOHOOO
WOOOHOOO!
WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!. KevvoStainless steel self steering device, built by Kevin Fleming, used on Berrimilla and countless others is driving away happily down the back being serenaded by LizzieLizzie the Whizzer: Berrimilla's wind generator the Whizzer on her tower above his head. LizzieLizzie the Whizzer: Berrimilla's wind generator is pumping wiggly amps into the battery, we’ve made a couple of litres of water and all’s well with the world.
Nice gentle departure. Customs duly arrived, cleared us and we were ready to Consult with lots of nice people who came along to see us off. Sparkling day. Slowed down so HilaryAlex’s partner and Katherine’s mother and Kimbra could get up to North Head to wave us away – and there were Fiona and Tory and Terry and assorted duckies keeping us company.
And now 6 hours later, an orange crescent moon is setting over Terrigal, Barrenjoey is astern and Norah Head is out in front. We’re drinking lime juice cordial made with freshly squeezed ocean and McQ has just constructed the BEST bacon Buttie ever. Ships anchored all along the coast, half a knot-- Speed: definition of speed at sea. One knot is one nautical mile per hour. The nautical mile is about 1.15 % longer than the "statute" mile used on land. A knot is about half a metre per second.
-- A knot is also the result of winding a rope around itself or another rope to make a join or a loop .
of current against us and not enough wind to push us through the swell so we have the engine ticking over to maintain some average speed – 28 miles leaves 5972 to go
Current position 3329.05.1 15128.33.4
Lets see whether this works…