Don’t be a lurker
Hi,
We are delighted that you are visiting our little blog. We hope it is of interest to fellow cruisers, arm chair sailors and total lubbers alike.
But, please, please leave a message. It encourages us to keep blogging if we know someone is out there reading. Just a sentence or two would be fine.
‘Nuff said… 🙂
svbrahminy 
Phillipa Gawne
March 16, 2013 at 8:37 pm
It sounds like your repairs are coming along nicel Birney
Simon Collyer
March 26, 2013 at 12:12 am
Hans, Please keep blogging. There are a lot of hard working people that are avoiding nervous breakdowns by vicariously living through your blog. This is an important community service. If you have to embellish things to keep it interesting please do so. I always imagined I would wear a greek sailors cap and play a harmonica during moody if you can fit that in your story? S.
Simon Collyer
March 26, 2013 at 12:13 am
…play the harmonica during moody storms…
Hansy
March 26, 2013 at 12:27 am
Of course. I will also start calling myself ‘Stavros’ and learn the bazzoki.
Vic Martin
April 15, 2013 at 4:07 am
Hi Brahminy, I also own a Duncanson 37, but a ketch. Nova Vida has been in Malaysia since 2009 and had some much needed interior work done in that time. It is an ongoing project but that is sailing. Your work on Brahminy is of great interest. I am currently in Kudat on my way back to Darwin, most likey via the Philippines. I will follow your progress with great interest. cheers
Hansy
April 15, 2013 at 5:31 am
Hi Vic,
Great to hear from you! Poor Brahminy has had much of the aft cabin lining ripped out for the repairs and she is looking a little sad right now, but I am optimistic that she will soon be looking better than before. I recently painted a bulkhead that had been varnished timber and it has created a lighter look in the main saloon. Thanks again for dropping us a line.
cheers,
Hans
Vic Martin
July 1, 2013 at 2:02 am
Sounds like a familiar story. Nova Vida’s wood work was mostly laminated. The tropics really finished it off with a lot of it lifting. So far the back cabin has been redone with white formica, the galley redone and some of the saloon with teak slats. It still needs more. The boat is currently in Cebu and I may get more work done there.
Just a question.. Have you replaced your cutlass bearing yet. I have done mine once and it was a big job. Had to lift the motor to get the shaft out.
Anonymous
June 24, 2013 at 6:35 am
Hey I see Charlie Brown has sold. Did you ever inspect it? (btw what is your email?)
Anonymous
June 24, 2013 at 6:36 am
That was Simon BTW
S.
Mark T.
August 16, 2013 at 10:54 am
yep I was here … finally. It took a while. Easier then reading the Burney W&P emails. hehehehehe
mreillyorg
March 11, 2014 at 6:39 am
Hans, Adrian just told me about your blog.. Hope you are enjoying your trip. When I was back studying IT at Bond Uni, I had a friend who came from around Can Tho.
svbrahminy
March 11, 2014 at 8:38 am
Hey Michael, lovely to hear from you. We liked Can Tho and the warmth of the Mekong after the wet chill of the north. Burney is the keen blogger – I follow the software developers creed – we develop systems, not content 😉 (not really true, since WordPress provided the whole thing)
andreabaldwin
June 10, 2014 at 10:07 am
Hi guys, I only just realised I could come to the Blog and comment – I get my blog posts through my email account. I always read them, just for the vicarious joy of sharing in your journey. Please do keep blogging (and sailing, festivalling, singing, etc.) Much love, Andrea xx
Craig Stevens
March 2, 2020 at 5:18 pm
Hi, I am not sure how old your post is but I will be taking a boat I just bought from Townsville with an overnight stopover somewhere near Cardwell for early morning (high tide) and found Goold is a nice distance from Cardwell for the run in with the tide. Your pictures are mazing
I was wondering where you Anchored around Goold. How deep was the water at your anchorage?
Cheers
Craig
Anonymous
April 1, 2024 at 6:38 pm
Hi, I just came across your great website while looking for images of Julia Hazel’s Jeshan. I found the beautiful photo you took of Jeshan at Low Isles, and would like to ask your permission to use it in a sailing memoir / history of ocean voyaging since the 1960s, which I will be publishing soon. I already have a few that Julia gave to the National Maritime Museum and will ask Julia if I can use one or two of those, but your photo is so vibrant, I’d love to use it. I briefly met Julia in 1975-6 when she was building Jeshan in Sydney. I was 23, and totally in awe of her. We had both recently left South Africa. We got to know each other well in later years in FNQ, when I was also up there in my small steel yacht, a Tom Thumb 24 called Arion, and we stay in touch these days via email. I am in Mooloolaba now but may go north again one of these days. Julia has been living ashore in Townsville, having sold Jeshan, I think (she has not told me what she did with the boat), but is dreaming of another boat, maybe a fibreglass one that is easier to maintain. I sold my steel yacht for the same reasons in 2019. I am 72, and Julia is a few years older. We both have the same problem, though; we are not inspired by production glass yachts! I have a Cavalier 32 at the moment but am dreaming of something with more character. My email address is yachtarion@hotmail.com and my name is Graham Cox.