Smooth sailing in light winds. Slow start with 4-4.5 knots on the Screecher. Wind picked up about half way and had both Genoa and Screecher out achieving 7-7.5 knots. Arrived at Prime Seal Island (adjacent to Flinders Island) to pick up mooring and some selfish person had left his tender on one of the public moorings and the other was occupied- not impressed! Tried three times to set anchor with no luck so decided to continue on to mainland Tassie. About twenty minutes out I got a call on the radio from the stink boat ‘Tivoli Bay’ heading past us back the way we had come. Apparently it was their tender and they must have felt guilty as they offered to raft up on the mooring. 1. You can’t reserve public moorings, 2. Moorings are only rated for one boat and his boat was heavier than ours, 3 the regulations for public mooring clearly state they are for 24hrs only and 4. the regulations for public moorings also clearly state rafting is not allowed,  so we kindly refused…should have just cut his tender free and taken the mooring but we are nice people!

Tassie 7A. Deal Island to Prime Seal Island

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