It's not the destination that maters but how you journey.
About Us
The Star of the Show
Angel wing is a Seawind 1200 launched in 2004. Built in Wollongong she is now on to third owner. Since 2017 she has sailed from Brisbane through Indonesia, up the west coast of Malaysia and Thailand and around Borneo.
The Skipper
The lucky Skipper of Angel Wing is Andrew, a broken down , retired Army man. Slowly ticking of the Bucket List, problem is every time something is ticked off there a heap more things to put on the list.
The Dive Master
This adventure started with a great mate, Amanda, who was the dive master and itinerary manager for the first 2.5 years of the Adventure. During the trip Amanda created and amazing blog. https://alphaodyssey.wordpress.com/
The first episode explains better that I can how it all started.
Amanda has had to go back to work now (Sucks to be YOU) leaving me and the Angel completely unsupervised.
Hello
How it Started
In January, an avid sailor (Andy), sent an avid diver (Amanda) a text message:
And just like that the seed of adventure was planted.
Since then, it has been a whirlwind of research, weighing up options, working out possible timelines, listening to sailing podcasts and reading sailing forums…and for Amanda, learning to sail! The first decision was what type of boat to buy…so we had to delve into the good ol’ monohull vs multihull debate…but it quickly became apparent that for the impending Alpha Odyssey, a catamaran was the winner. The second decision was how big a boat we wanted…and noting that every extra foot means extra maintenance and expenses, but this boat was going to be our home… so we settled on 38-45 foot range. We immediately started checking out boats that fit our wish list.
More quickly than anticipated, that led to actually buying a boat, and on Monday 21st March 2016, after a great test sail and the usual survey and checks, we became boat owners of a 40ft Seawind 1200 catamaran!
And here we are: anchored at Tangalooma in Moreton Bay on our Easter shakedown trip, getting to know the boat and how she sails and operates. The wind didn’t really cooperate on our inaugural sail out of Mooloolaba and we had to motor most of the way down to Moreton Island, but the seas were calm and the full moon rose above the water in a spectacular fashion....See all of Amandas Blogs at Links