The adventures of sailing vessel Escapade

A lot of hikers walk up the beach completing a loop that starts at Coles Bay and goes past Wine[…]

The forecast was for freshening winds from the south so we motored across to the north side of Schouten Island[…]

Twenty-two hours after departing Trousers Point we arrived at Bryans Beach on the west side of Freycinet Peninsula – those[…]

A narrow weather window became available so we left Trousers Point at 7:30am to head to Spike Cove (on Clarke[…]

Happy New Year! The wind is still blowing 20+ knots from the east so we won’t be moving today.We headed[…]

With 20 knot easterly winds forecast we departed Prime Seal Island and motor sailed to the coastal town of Whitemark[…]

With a light westerly wind and sunny skies we decided to take the opportunity to do the laundry and run[…]

After finally getting a good night’s sleep we departed Deal Island at 7:30am for Prime Seal Island in the Furneaux[…]

It was a terrible night of rolling in East Cove (which included getting up at 1am to reset the anchor)[…]