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| Sat, Sep 4th Sail School |
| Sun, Sep 5th GBBC Sailday 1 |
| Sun, Sep 5th Sail School |
| Sun, Sep 5th BYC Winter Series - Race 5 |
| Mon, Sep 6th Sail School |
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A VDL-C Cruise is not a race. Cruising boats can and do tend to go off and do their own thing. Incentive to keep the fleet more or less on the same part of the Tasmanian coast is provided by the promise of regular social events. Usually these take the form of a picnics on a beach. We carry four portable gas-fired barbecues with us for this purpose. One of the jobs of the Cruise Commodore is to try keep the fleet sufficiently together for most to make it to most functions – and in the longer run to arrive back in Hobart about when we plan to. The 2009 VDL-C Cruise Commodore was Graeme Dineen on his Salar 40, Sea Esta. Click here to view the passage plan. In pondering this timetable, please remember it is only a plan and what actually happened depended on the weather en route. These occasional bulletins inevitably will reflect the view from Rosinante. Jeremy keeps a radio sched with the fleet each morning and evening so he has an overview as to what the VDL-C fleet is up to. The evening sched at 1835 is a compulsory roll call of the fleet. It was not the purpose of this webpage to regularly report positions of individual boats. There are several web pages corresponding to the sections of the cruise Days 1 - 4 SE Coast Days 5 - 12 NE Coast Days 13 - 18 NW Coast Days 19 - 26 W Coast Days 27 - 30 SW Coast Days 31 - 34 D'Entrecasteaux Channel Day 36 End-of-Cruise Dinner in Hobart The fleet returned to Hobart on Tuesday 17th March 2009 - as scheduled. Here is a list of the boats that participated. In Summary: A total of 43 boats whose entries were accepted indicated an intention to start. One withdrew before she left her home port of Melbourne.
A Bass Strait sunrise - here is Bundaberg 4 hours south of Port Phillip Heads on her way to join the VDL-C fleet at the Hunter Group. (photo by Bill Newman on Maatsuyker)
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