PODCAST: Lin Pardey - 200k miles of sailing, dual circumnavigations, book author

Dear Friends

Just a few weeks ago, David suggested I get to know more of his background as an Australian. So we left Sahula secured in a marina near Hastings, Victoria, rented a car and took off for the outback. Only one problem. I had agreed to do an hour long podcast for Josh Pederson who of thisoceanlife.tv. So before heading into the Flinders Ranges, we stopped where we could get good internet reception and made the connection.

So on New Year's Eve Australian time, I spent an enjoyable time on the phone with Josh who lives in California. I hope you enjoy the results of the far ranging conversation we had.

Lin

P.S. The outback was stunningly barren. We were guests on a sheep station of 125,000 acres which in the best of times can carry 450 wool bearing sheep. But the drought conditions mean that right now there are only 900. Not a blade of grass to be seen, just spindly looking shrugs and stately Eucalyptse trees along the dry stream beds. And yes, smoke from the fires 200 miles to the south made visibility very poor some days. Interesting insight into the background for the stories that David grew up reading.

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Newsletter December 2019

We are sailing across the Bass Strait as I write this, bound from King Island northwest of Tasmania towards Western Port in Victoria, Australia. We’ve had to fight the weather since we left Kettering in southwest Tasmania. It has taken almost a month to get this far. But we definitely are on time to share the Christmas Holidays with some of David’s family who live only 15 minutes away from the marina where we have secured a berth. He’ll get to play granddad; I’ll get to play in a real kitchen and make rich dark fruit cakes and enjoy the camaraderie that comes only when friends and family work together to create a feast. I also have cruising friends who live near here. When Peter and Jan Metherall were sailing home through the Pacific with their three children on board back in 1985, we all became friends. In fact, their children crewed for Larry and I when we raced in Tonga. So, we’ll have a full holiday time, one I am sure will build more special memories.

.       Sailing in the Bass Strait gave us a mixed bag of weather – but two days were almost perfect.

Newsletter August 2019

The wind came blasting in, far stronger than forecast. But before it did, we’d had a fine run down through the Apostle Islands. Now streaks of white filled the horizon, wave crests breaking against the hull began covering us in spray. So, we turned to head back into the marina early in the afternoon and helped tidy up the 30 foot sloop that served as our hosts summer cottage and lake explorer.

1. Sailing with Jerry and Karen on Lake Superior was one more of the special moments of our three month meander across the US.

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June 2019 Newsletter

Dear Friends;

As this story shows, my itchy feet have me on the move again.

“Push her a bit more to starboard,” I call to David.

“I’ll hold her while you start up the windlass,” Marcus calls to me.

I run the length of the boatyard at my Kawau Island home base in North Cove, then begin taking the strain on the hauling line. The big windlass grinds and whirrs and slowly my little Herreshoff keeler Felicity comes clear of the water. Her specially fitted trailer keeps her keel centered, her hull well supported as she rolls up the stone ramp and onto the flat ground. I enjoy the camaraderie as the three of us work together to ensure she is settled perfectly, trailer sitting level, wheels jacked up and tires clear of the ground. But at the same time I feel a little sad. She is just the first of five boats we are storing away for what could be more than a year.

One last gathering of friends from North Cove before we packed up to run away from winter.

Pardey Books & DVD's are available from the publishers website.
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Self Sufficient Sailor: Third Edition Hardcover - 320p Coming Sept 2019 $29.95	Taleisin's Tales: Sailing towards the Southern Cross  Paperback - 220p $18.95	Details of Classic Boat Construction: The Hull - 25th Anniversary Edition Hardcover - 452p $35.00
Voyaging With Kids - A Guide to Family Life Afloat Paperback - 320p $25.17	Care and Feeding of Sailing Crew 4th Edition Paperback - 412p $19.96	As Long as It's Fun: The Epic Voyages and Extraordinary Times of Lin and Larry Pardey Paperback - 280p $15.16
Bull Canyon: A Boat builder, a Writer and other Wildlife Hardcover - 304p $19.96	Capable Cruiser 3rd Edition Paperback - 400p $19.96	Cruising in Seraffyn: Tribute Edition Paperback - 236p $18.95
Seraffyn's Mediterranean Adventure 30th Anniversary Edition Paperback - 256p $13.56	Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure Paperback - 256p $13.56	Seraffyn's European Adventure Paperback - 319p $13.56
Blown Away Paperback - 319p $16.95	Storm Tactics Handbook Paperback - 319p $18.36
Cost Control While You CRUISE DVD - 65 minutes $19.95	All 5 Pardey Videos DVD Set $99.95	Storm Tactics: Cape Horn Tested DVD - 84 minutes $23.96
Get Ready to CROSS OCEANS DVD - $18.36	Get Ready to CRUISE DVD - 98 minutes $18.36	Cruising has NO LIMITS DVD - 98 minutes  $18.36