We hoped to sail from Werribbee River to Little River, but the conditions were more boisterous than expected, with lots of whitecaps out in the bay and returning fishermen undermining the expedition members morale with reports of rough swell out there. Jamie in his Mirror headed off first, had a few close encounters with fishing boats in the channel and with the pier, so decided an up river trip in order.
I had a bit of a rocky start, Ozzie tried to jump ship onto the pier, fell in and had to be rescued, dripping wet. Still, once we got going it was a lovely run up the river. Some beautiful stretches along there.
We had lunch on the Island, then tacked our way back. The core sound is a good boat for river tacking, no sheets to mess with. But the pointing angle not fantastic. My gps track tells me we did 90 tacks!
We got back without serious incident. Jamie lost screws from lower rudder pintle, and we were worried for Gerard but he eventually turned up, just as I was thinking of relaunching to go look for him.
It was a good day, but I am disappointed not to have got to Little River. And I think I have had enough Werribee river for a while.
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