Adventures

The start of a journey

31 October 2011
On the 27th October, I started a journey of getting to know my 470 sailing dinghy, Havvok. With daylight savings in full swing, and the kick off of the Canberra Yacht Club twilights on Lake Burley Griffin, it was the perfect time. After a winter of fiddling with the mast and the rig, and being nervous about what was to come, I fell in love with the 470 the minute we took off from the start line.
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The day after...

27 April 2005
Well I guess it is just the day after Grandpa’s funeral… It was a beautiful, tiring, painful and‘together’ in a wayI have never experienced in such force. Memories flooding forward, tears flooding everyone!!! And a sense of family, and thankfulness that we had something to be missing, something that we would truly miss holding, but the knowledge that he has shaped all of…
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The Sailor Girl?

30 June 2004
Today a funny thing happened… I got to the point where I apparently sail so much that it should become my name. I have been called “Sailor Girl” as far back as 2000 (that I can remember) by people at the sailing club… sometimes by kids at school… Mostly boys… But now there seems to be a few adventures happening… And you guys apparently want to hear about…
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