Thursday 17th June 6am we hauled anchor and headed down river, stopping at the fuel depot to fill the diesel tanks. Out into the bay and up went the sails. The watermaker went on as the water tanks were low. By 12:00 we were starting to head out of Moreton Bay when the Vang broke. Then we discovered the watermaker had not been making water.
We had a quick look at the watermaker and found it wasn’t going to be a quick fix. With heavy hearts we turned around and headed back to the Brisbane River where we could fill the water tanks at one of the docks.
First dock (which was the fuel dock and water dock) had someone parked up for the night, but us pulling up behind that boat and in front of a huge super yacht was just going to be too tight of a squeeze.
Dock 2 (1.0m of water below the keel), Sue was saying hurry up, but the water only trickled out. No good,
Dock 3, 0.1 (100mm of water below the keel!) but tide just turning to come in, success, we managed to get water. With air bubbles in the tank it still took more than an hour to fill 300L of water.
Silver lining, we got lots of practice mooring and Lydia’s lassoing deck cleats with the mooring lines improved tenfold.
Now 8:30pm and the tanks are full. Let’s try again.
