Commuting in Style.

How to be late in style.

 
Matt's Nature Reserve

• Step One leave your boat on a mooring for 2 years so there's a coral reef growing on it
• Step Two ensure the Prop is so fouled it doesn't work.
• Step Three paint the deck, to facilitate this remove all the fittings so no sails can be flown.
• Step Four put masking tape over any fittings you may have missed in step three, making them unusable too.
• Step Five ensure you leave at the top of the tide so it is against you all the way up the harbour.
• Step Six, I know this may be beyond your control, but a head wind sure helps!
• Step Seven, decide what time to get up in order to get the boat to slipway before work while at happy hour in a pub in Darling Harbour.

You know I miss sailing with Matt, don't worry he was VERY late for work. About 4 hours. and the tide was going out so fast the marina was getting worried about the depth at their slip way and sent the dinghy to tow us in.

Island Kea is lovely - but Steve and Katrin spoil me, they have an autopilot, its not that you don't have to fix Island Kea as you going along, but at least you don't have to steer with you feet as your fixing it. Sailing with Matt is different and kind of fun, nobody else but me and him would actually sail off the mooring* under main and bolt the bits needed for the jib on as we went along. There was a brief moment where I thought we were going to hit the rocks before Matt could get the other jib car on so we could tack. The track was covered in masking tape and deck paint.

I have to say that tacking in the morning sunshine past the Opera House and Under the Sydney Harbour Bridge  is however the BEST way to commute.

* - No the engine doesn't work! Id did actually start but it puts out a truly awesome slick of black powdery residue but the prop is mostly coral and don't work at all.