Continuing on our Lap of Australia on Paradise – The Gulf of Carpentaria is the breeding ground for cyclones in the first 3 months of the year, luckily we will be well clear of the Gulf by then.

Continuing on our Lap of Australia on Paradise – The Torres Strait Islands are in the centre of the windiest trade wind in the world. Tides are fickle and can be unpredictable. The Arafura Sea to the west and the Coral Sea to the east experience different tidal ranges and times. There's also the confluence of tidal streams running around TI to deal with. We caught up with some other boaties who have been waiting for weeks for a weather window to...

Continuing on our Lap of Australia on Paradise – We pushed to the tip of mainland Australia in one long day. Leaving Cape Grenville at 0400hrs and arriving at Shallow Bay just before the top of Cape York before sunset at 1800hrs. It was only the two of us on Paradise, and it was the first time that John had a little sleep during the day, and I was at the helm, it's nice to see him relaxed. We officially became part of a group of seven Cats sailin...

Slowing down the pace of our trip meant that we had time to explore Cape Grenville and relax with our sailing pals. The ocean side of Cape Grenville is very windy, and all the plastic and debris off boats seem to land on Indiana Bay. There are pil...

It was a lovely day sailing up to Portland Roads (Cape Weymouth/Iron Range), I baked a cake for Nathalie's birthday and we sang happy birthday while we were underway. But when furling up the G-Zero, it wrapped and rather than dropping the sail we tri...