This was taken while sailing between Chappell Island and Trousers Point on Flinders Is. There was a gentle north westerly blowing as we left Chappell Is so the sails went up and without saying a word both of us just sat back, stowed paddles and sailed slowly towards Trousers Point which was about 8km away. En route as you can hear we caught one of the regular Coastal Waters forecasts broadcast from Tamar Sea Rescue on Channel 67. After some while of gently bobbling along Lynne mentioned the GPS was giving us an ETA at Trousers Point much later than we really wanted to get there, so in a flurry of paddling action to supplement the sailing we upped the speed and arrived at Trousers Point within 20 minutes.
Crossing Banks Strait from Swan Island to Lookout Point on Clarke Island. Big seas caused in part by the flooding tide against the wind and swell from the NW though both helped us along our way as we were moving along very nicely at 5 to 6 knots.
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