Up at 3:30am for a 4am departure from Mariners Cove, actually departed at 4:30 and motored up the channel, out through the Gold Coast Seaway and turned left to head north.

It was not exactly a balmy Queensland winter as you can see by the picture of Sonia below.

 

However sunrise revealed smooth seas and 17-18 knots of W to NW wind, perfect conditions ofr sailing up past North Stradbroke and Moreton Islands at around 7 knots.

 

 

 We were able to sail all the way to Cape Moreton, unfortunately when we went around the cape the wind was on the nose so we had to motor across to Mooloolaba. We arrived in Mooloolaba just on sunset and were greeted by our other Alfred’s cruisers