Lowana Comes To Darwin
by Russ Swan
An inexperienced new owner of an 8-tonne cruising sailboat is faced with the daunting prospect of getting it home through the Great Barrier Reef off Queensland in Australia, across the fickle Gulf of Carpentaria and the open waters of the Arafura Sea in the tropics. The story describes events leading up to what brought this about, and the solving of the problems in getting the boat into the water. The reader is then taken on an often humorous description of events on a day-to-day basis including airless days and equipment failures. Plus the bad days of rough seas or being caught inside torrential defiles. Descriptions of places visited is complemented with touches of local history. About the author
It's still cool though only a light shirt is needed. Shafts of sunlight slant through low greyish clouds on the horizon, lighting up the surface of the sea with a silver shimmer. |
At least one of the crew, and it isn't the skipper or the boat’s owner, manages to fall out of the dinghy before we even leave the beach.
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The big sail cascades down all over the deck, effectively blocking Paul’s view forward. There's almost a moment of panic. Paul yells to clear it out of the way. He desperately needs to see where the rocks are and already we are being swept to one side. The rocks loom up almost in slow motion.
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