After a walk to the entrance, we decided that today was the day to leave Bermagui & head to Jervis Bay. We planned to head out at about 12pm. The bar had small waves which broke to the right but had calmed down over the few hours in the morning. 

With 15-20 kn NW calming down to 10-15 kn, we followed Jumping Jack Frog out, put up full main sail & No. 1 head sail, unfortunately the 10-15 kn didn’t come so we reefed down and furled the headsail in halfway. We settled in to a variable trip, from light winds of 10 knots to unexpected gusts of 30 knots. This became a very frustrating & tiring sail, however we sailed and that was our aim. We finally got to sail from one destination to the other with no motor.

We had a lot of water over the bow which decided to come into the boat grrrr. As much as you can do your best to leak test your boat in the marina, nothing can mimic the action & power of waves. However I think we will blame the hatch, but will have to do further investigations to be 100% sure.

We came into Jervis Bay under dark at 3:00am something we didn’t plan on as we planned on a sunrise entry. We averaged 6 knots, not the 5 knots we calculate our boat to average. Jervis Bay has a big entry so coming in under dark isn’t an issue. I did some wind direction checking and we decided to head to Vincentia across the bay. Found the courtesy mooring @ 3:45am, packed up the boat, had a well earned celebratory scotch ready for a good mornings sleep.

87.7 nm, 14 hrs 45 mins, avg speed 5.95 kn, 15-20 kn NW, total motor sailing 0 hrs.