Hi Everyone
Thought I should let you know what we are up to and what our plans are.... we have stopped in Coffs for the next few months as the bank account was looking seriously poor. We have moved in with my mum and dad and are hoping we don't push the friendship, all is going well so far. Peter is working casual at Toormina High School which is the local and he has work lined up until the last week of school. I've got a job at woolworths (hehehe) as a stacker which starts on Saturday presuming something better doesn't come up. I have some freelance work lined up after Christmas and am waiting on a call regarding a second interview with a design company (fingers crossed as it would be much better then Woolworths).

We are planning to hang around here until the end of March. Peters brother Luke and partner Jade are getting married mid march so we will be able to go to their wedding and see all of Peters family which will be great. We are then hoping to leave for New Zealand and continue the trip as planned.

We are enjoying living back on land with no water restrictions and a supermarket just a few minutes away. Peter is frustrated with the year sevens he is teaching and seems to be coming home from work a little grumpy each afternoon but otherwise all is well.

We are enjoying a bit of twilight racing with the Coffs Yacht Club. So far we have placed 3rd each race. The two lead boats are more racing boats then ours. We had a colourful run-in with one boat that didn't know their rules but since then we have kept our distance and we have managed to start on time which has improved the results some what. Last week we had about 20 knots from the north at the start, the start line is in the harbour between the jetty and a bouy. So we reached out the harbour and rounded Muttonbird Island. It was then a work north to McCauleys Headland. We learnt a new club rule which states that you can not increase sail area during the race so we started with a reef in the main and when the wind dropped and began rotating we couldn't pull out the reef. Luckily the rest of the fleet suffered the same fate. A storm came through and we finished with a 36 knot gust from the west. We have moved Jura to an easier berth to get into and out of which is decreasing our stress a little.

I am still loading pictures onto the blog site (only a few months late but anyway) stay tuned.