Hmmm, Backstairs Passage the roughest part of the trip. I remember seeing my Porterhouse steak for the second time

This time last year, I had just arrived in Chilean Patagonia for a week of walking in the mountains, before joining a sailing trip in the Beagle Channel and out around Cape Horn. Wonderful!
This has inspired me to sell the little trailer-sailer and buy a little cruiser. So I am now learning how to handle my Tophat - renamed as 'Kittiwake'. Yesterday's sail in southern PPB was great, with a chance to approach the Rip and check out the nav features. Next step: Bass Strait.

This time last year Missus and I were venturing out into Pittwater and learning how
to hoist the sails. I know all about sailing now......