Hello all

I have asked something similar to this question but I have a query still about leaving my cat in Tassie.

My wife and I are pretty excited about sailing south, instead of north, which is what we have done about 6 times before. As we work as teachers we have a nice break over the summer. I am going to take some extra leave (love my job) and sail the boat down early. Deb will fly down and meet me.

At the end of Jan we will leave the boat, either to sail back in Easter, or more probably to leave for the year and come down in the hols. I might miss the winter hols and just do a couple of weekends to check her out.

I built my boat and although she is not the snazziest she is pretty important to us. I am thinking of leaving her in Prince of Wales marina, which seems to have good rates for cats (11.6m LOA, 7.0m BOA) But I was still thinking of leaving her on a mooring in the Huon region.

Now it seems as though Taswegians use railway wheels for moorings. I don't know why, I would prefer a big lump of concrete. They also seem to sell moorings for much more than we can in NSW so I would probably want to rent one but it would have to be very sturdy and in a very sheltered part of the world. As it is, we bought our house because it was close to the mooring, I check the boat everyday, mostly from the shore but any excuse will have me rowing to check her out.

So its either the marina or a really, really nice snug spot where someone I can ring can see her. Somewhere with a big concrete block and huge ship chain. I think I would prefer to have the boat in the channel rather than at POW marina but I think the marina people would not mind me ringing them up every now and then to check the boat.

I would like to cruise Tassie without worry, which means not stressing about getting there and back in 9 weeks and am happy to pay a bit more to know she is being well taken care of when she stays there and I fly home.

I know there are many Taswegians on the forum. Any thoughts on my plan?

cheers

Phil