ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Jaysen wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 8:22 am You need to get some on board video of the crossing. Mount a GoPro to a rail so we can get a good feel for the changing conditions as you transition. Should make for some good watching.
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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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The child bride and I boarded Great Sandy this morning intending to spend the day preparing for a hopeful Noosa bar crossing tomorrow.

But hey, today was a gorgeous Noosa sunny winter Sunday, and the bar was behaving itself.

So on impulse we went for it, crossed the Noosa bar just before high tide, and after three hours of sublime sunny winter sailing, we crossed the Mooloolaba bar 20 nm south and dropped the pick on sunset.

Our 2021 Great Sandy cruise was underway! The child bride and I were ready for a celebratory drink. :D

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Great day GB!!!! You guys have a great time and always stay safe!!!! Jeff

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Cheers to the well done crossing o the Noosa bar even that we could not take part with Fuzzes idea of a GoPro camera. When I read tomorrow you will try the crossing I looked on my watch and thought actually it should be tomorrow on your side and the next moment I read you made it. Enjoy your cruise along the coast.
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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Enjoy!
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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Glad the bar crossing went well for you. I hope you will as in the past and take us along on your adventures :D

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Glad the crossing went well and have a great and relaxing cruise.

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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This thread is coming up for 600 pages and 6000 replies! 8O

Surely some sort of record and cause for an online celebration! :lol:

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Lets see. Builder who builds unusual boats,takes fascinating trips, lives in a marvellous place that many of us would like to see and lives a life most of us envy to some degree. Small wonder this is a active thread. Lee you count yourself as the same for most or all of this.

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Re: ST21 'Skinnydip' build, and boating adventures, Noosa, Australia

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Thanks Jeff, Karl, cape man, Fuzz, Tom, Lee and Fuzz again. :D

We've decided to stay awhile in Mooloolaba Marina https://www.mooloolabamarina.com.au/ to do a few maintenance jobs that require professional assistance not readily available in Noosa.

I've been nursing the electric motor on Great Sandy anchor windlass for the past few years, as occasionally it just refuses to operate. To date, a tap on the side of the electric motor with a winch handle has done the trick (a bit like a getting a stuck starter motor or fuel pump on an old car going), but given the deteriorating nature of the electrical motor's casing, I'm no longer game to give it a tap. Time to replace it.

As the pics of the existing and replacement electric winch motor below show, 20 years of saltwater spraying over the motor each time the anchor is retrieved has resulted in deep rust all but destroying the current casing.

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