On November 1, following the end of Indy week, we departed the GC through the Southport inlet. Elisa, our new stewardess, and Scotty, a temporary engineer, both Aussies, were on board along with the rest of the crew and yours truly. Winds projected at fifteen knots instead reached a blustery forty and were, along with the attendant seas, coming at us directly […]
I arrived back in Brisbane on September 5 and drove directly to the Hotel Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast not knowing at the time that it would be my home for the next forty-seven days. As a longer stay customer during a slow season I managed to get a reduced room rate and get upgraded to their Imperial Suite, really a three room luxury apartment with kitchen. […]
Grant and I returned home to Florida at the end of July, and I remained there awaiting completion of the refit, tending to a few business matters and catching up with old friends and the family. As the refit work neared completion, I became anxious to get moving again and so returned to Australia on September 5, a good bit prematurely as it turned out.
To catch our flight back to Florida, Grant and I returned to Sydney where our travels began a month before. We had a few days to waste so I walked around the CBD some more, visited some places I had missed and generally goofed off. Grant, however, was bent on a mission that he had secretly begun when we were here last and now was determined to complete. […]
Upon leaving the Port Douglas/Cairns area, we flew to Brisbane and drove out to its Marine Industry Park where Grant for the first time met the crew and toured Indigo in the refit shed. Later that evening, we all rendezvoused at a restaurant on the lively Southbank where the crew and I had a wonderful reunion […]