The Eleventh Hour

It was the 11th hour of our 15 hour night passage from Fraser Island to the Town of Seventeen Seventy (1770) that we were thinking when is this boy going to wake up?? Surfing down 2.5m swells at 4am in 25knots of wind, Noah awoke having slept right through for 11 hours straight! What a little legend! If there was ever a night you would hope he would sleep through, this was it! 
1770 bar-way can only be safely crossed heading towards a high tide. In our case this was 8am this morning and therefore necessary to do a night passage. As for Lady Elliott Island the sea conditions would have only dictated an uncomfortable anchorage so we changed plans and headed for 1770.
Beneath a clear and starry night we enjoyed beautiful sailing conditions in 10 - 15 knots for the first half of the 90 nautical mile journey. At this point we fell out of the lee of Fraser Island and experienced the full height of the south-east swell and more squally conditions reaching wind speed of over 25 knots. We were having a ball and Maripi behaved beautifully but with such precious cargo onboard we reduced sail making a more conservative approach to the mainland.
Sitting at anchor in 1770, the first landing for Captain Cook in Queensland in the year (you guessed it) 1770, we are looking forward to a couple of peaceful days discovering this sweet little coastal town and catching more fish.