Bandanyah's feisty crossing of the Great Australian Bight

12:30 AM Wed 11 May 2011 GMT

'Bandanyah before setting of from Albany, nestled among the fishing boats' .

Jack and Jude Binder are circumnavigating Australia on their yacht Banyandah, and they have just completed a crossing from Albany across the Great Australian Bight to Portland in Victoria: Oow, my head still hurts like it's going to shatter. Aye, from too much celebrating. You see, we made landfall yesterday. And my body still aches. But not from celebrating. Rather, a thrashing from an angry sea. Jude and I were bound for Tasmania from the West Australian coast, but the weather gods had different ideas. Have a peek at this weather chart for the waters between Australia and the South ...

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by Jack Binder

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