We've Arrived!

Before I begin with our adventures at sea I must apologise for not blogging during the trip - I didn't realise there would be no internet once we left Fremantle - we took a more seaward route than expected.

We arrived safely in Benoa Harbour around 11:30 yesterday morning (according to the Yellow Brick Tracker- 9 days 1 hour 20 minutes and 22 seconds after starting). We were blessed with awesome conditions with nothing much above 20 knots and a 3/4 reach nearly the entire way 👏🏻👏🏻⛵️, something that Napea loves to do. Our crew were fantastic and everyone got along really well. Even the lack of sleep was bearable with two hours on watch then four hours off during the night (two crew on for each watch). We did have a few boat "issues " along the way but managed to mostly sort them out or do with out. The worst of these was that our hydraulic vang (that's the bit that allows us to adjust the height of the boom and safely manage the boom, which is really important when furling the main sail) lost a hydraulic seal around day 3 and so it would not keep pressure and the boom would sky - definitely not ideal. Luckily for us we had Andrew "MacGyver" Knowles with us and he managed to splice a rope support which gave us a safety backup but unfortunately we still did not have full control of the main sail. We also broke the spinnaker halyard on the last full day of sailing, this was a bit of a problem given that the overlapping (Code 0)  headsail was attached and flying at the time, and we couldn't use this sail for the last 15 hours - it had been our "secret weapon" for boat speed - we then had to use our other weapon - the 160hp Yanmar Engine 😀

We are now staying at a lovely resort in Sanur beach, The Maya, we will enjoy some relax time but will also have to spend a bit of time doing maintenance work on the boat ⛵️