Back to Pittwater where the sailing adventure began

 After spending a few days at Nelson Bay, we headed south to Pittwater where we would meet up with a couple other boats also headed to Tasmania.  Pittwater is just north of Sydney and is where True North (formally Amara) was moored when I first viewed here before purchase in December 2018.  Our plan is to stay a few days to resupply, get some new parts and do a few repairs.  I’d also like to say hello to several locals who I came to know during the original Covid lockdown and who became friends while we could not leave the area.

Back to Pittwater, a Thursday night race was underway.

We anchored in Morning Bay which has been a common anchorage for me during my many Pittwater stays.  It is a well protected and calm anchorage in all but infrequent westerly blows.

The Morning Bay anchorage 

After anchoring at about 17:30, I had Andrew call the Church Point Waterfront Cafe to see if they still had their 2 for 1 pizza special on Thursdays before 6pm.  The special was still on so we ordered two pizzas over the phone and said we would be in to pick them up as soon as we got the boat put away and dinghy out.  The pizzas were delicious and there were enough leftovers for another meal.  A great bargain at a cost of Cdn $24 for two pizzas.

The next day we picked up a large number of items I had ordered and had delivered to the post office.  Afterwards we visited with my friend Mark on his Oyster 56, Hullabaloo who was getting ready to depart south for Tasmania around the same time as us.  Next, we went into town to get parts for my Genoa furler which had self destructed at the end of our sail to Pittwater and returned back to True North so I could install the new parts to repair the furler.  We spent one more day getting groceries and departed Pittwater on a nice northwest breeze.

Our early morning departure from Morning Bay


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