A stiff breeze directly down wind of 20knots or so, having trouble getting the spinnaker pole out safely as getting stuck on it's track to comfortably wing on wing, must lubricate it. So headed off shore on a bit more of an angle to keep both sails flying on same side, and gybed back in later in day. Slow VMG but more exciting sailing at least. Was close to a reef needed (well if thinking of a reef, you need a reef) but while I was clipping in, the wind dropped slightly negating. Wind vane working well, but with it being an auxiliary rudder I really have to trim/balance the sails well or it will head up into the wind overpowering the small auxiliary rudder of the vane. If the boat's over powered need to add a little opposing main helm and lock it off to help it, but a reef would do the same job. 

MOB! Well, at least for my dan bouy.. bugger me, expensive automatic inflatable one, but I installed it in a bad position and on a gybe the main sheet grabbed it and ripped it off the hand rail. Well that's the end of that as it's in its sealed plastic box it'll be gone to the bottom I thought, then looked back again and it had self inflated and got itself out of the latched plastic box and heading off! I can't leave that out there or someone will think there's a missing person, so a good exercise for a MOB recovery. All went well swinging up into 20+ knots fully canvased and picking it up with sails flapping on first attempt, bear away and keep going with now this massive inflated dan bouy on deck trying to figure out how the fuck do I deflate this.. No idea, tomorrow's problem and stow it down below inflated. Will get a re arming kit on order.

Pulled into Rainbow beach around double island point headland in dark, many other yachts on the same leg catching the same southerly been waiting for, most beat me or overtook me but I'm sure I was the most comfortable.. When 2 or more boats are going in the same direction, it's a race, but I suspect some were motor sailing I tell myself..

Mooloolaba to Rainbow Beach

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