:) mmm I've got my eye on your mooring MB :)

Do you need help selling

MorningBird said..
Any other Seabreezers enticed to give it a go?

Since my old girl won't be ready, I'd love to crew. Or if MB sells, I'm fixing up my old girl, so you could come with me when she is ready.
She needs a lot of work, I could try hard for 2018.

MorningBird said..
Yes MB is on the market but, just in case she doesn't sell, I have booked a mooring for this years Lord Howe Island BBQ Rally in November. Havefun is up for it again. Back to Comets Hole for MB, unless a boat in North Passage pulls out.

You will have seen Ciscos report on last years adventure. Any other Seabreezers enticed to give it a go?

I would love to do it. I think Trek is up to it as well. New steering, rigging and sails fixed. I just need constant reminding so I don't let my day job distract me from the reason Ive got a day job!

Don't count on me to go MB. I have far too much of my own shizz going on to commit.

For anybody else interested in a great blue water adventure I suggest you will have to look far afield to find a better yacht and crew such as MorningBird and HaveFun to sail with.

IF, and it is big IF, things were to fall in place over the next 6 months I might consider the voyage again under certain conditions, one of them being that I will be chief cook, bottle washer and more importantly victualler.

Well I have to wish you the best of luck selling her but I also have to say don't hold your breath waiting for a sale but more importantly, do not under sell her.

Though I paid $30,000 for Second Wind I will be declaring her at $18,000 in my pension application which is about what I would get in a fire sale. Facts of life.

Nobody seems to be spending capital lately which is quite understandable. I just bought a beautiful 2004 BA Falcon Futura today for $3,000 with full history. Magnificent car which I am paying for out of cash flow rather than capital.

So I guess I will say this year as I did last year "Don't write me off just yet." I really did enjoy the trip last year even though that was not reflected in my mood or facial expression. Getting to LHI with every piece of clothing I had being wet was not in my plan. I will buy a water proof gear bag you can be sure but wet bedding is not to be tolerated. If I have to come down there a month beforehand to "Give you a hand." sealing those deck bolts, I will do it but you will have to let me drive the TR 4 a couple of times. That was an awesome ride.

HaveFun is always ready to go. He can't seem to get enough of it. Maybe we should take his yacht and he would win the trophy. Three times lucky and the first time on his yacht??

Cheers Cisco.

Would they allow a multihull??

MorningBird said..


Cisco, I think you jest or have unrealistic expectations of ocean passages on small yachts!

The latter is most likely. I can be a wimp at times.