We had originally planned to depart the Golden Gate on the 10th of October and we made it!
The last day of preparation was wrapping up all the things that hasn’t quite got done yet. Making sure the dinghy outboard was properly tied down and prepping the ditch bag. What took most time was working out how to lash the dinghy to the foredeck – various approaches were tried until we finally sorted it. Peggy was working really hard in the kitchen at home, making sure we had enough food to last us to Mexico. We had one last dash to Pacifica to pick up a forgotten, but essential piece of gear and then we were away, leaving Brisbane around 10:30.
First problems we ran into was that the autopilot was misbehaving, so we did very slow donuts off Hunter’s point whilst trying to recalibrate it. The log was also misbehaving, as it has done of late. But we got things working sufficiently to head out the Gate and get on our way!