Bloody hell,
I am glad we left when we did.
We had the low following s all the way up the coast and we are stuck at Manly with a stuffed gearbox but I would rather that than what I am seeing in NSW.
We had some fun weather coming up the coast, a few restless nights and a 42 hour passage to Southport from Port Macquarrie but at least we suffered no damage and had a relatively (by comparrisonn) good trip north.

toronto on friday morning.

MorningBird said..
According to the Seabreeze forecast we have another blow tomorrow. This time about 30kts from the south west.

I went looking for that blow with my storm sail on the inner forestay. Got to the middle of the harbour and lolled around in nothing. Instead had a glorious sail today. [edit: oh, turns out it was up to 30 kts today. Gee, wish I had an anonometer]

By the way, I spoke to the local Maritime Safety Officer today to tell him about a mostly submerged vessel and he said he'd been personally involved with 30 sunken vessels in the Harbour from this last storm plus another 30 or so that had beached or sitting low in the water from the rain. I also saw a boat or two (couldn't quite work it out) up on the rocks of South Head. The damage was almost exclusively on the north side of the Harbour.