Still tied up at Fremantle Sailing Club & happy to be here...

I have just finished baking my first cake in the new oven & it looks pretty good to me! That's what you do when you can't get off the boat due to bad weather. Of course the proof is in the eating but that will not be untill we are under way. We, or should I say Jerry, decided that leaving last weekend was not going to happen a) we still had a few jobs to finish & b) bad weather was due this week. So while I sit here tucked up down below listening to 40 knots of NW wind howling throught the rigging, the boat listing to starboard  sheet rain making it impossible to see the jetty let alone disembark for a walk up to the club, I can only say good decision Captain Jerry! Winter has arrived in WA. The good thing is that these low pressure systems are usually followed by a big high which will give us a few days of SE winds to head north. There's one due on Friday but it will take a few days for the seas to settle to a 'sailable' state before we move on.
In the meantime we can sit here in cosy comfort & read a few manuals to try & figure out how all the new electronics work & maybe just one slice of cake with a cuppa will be alright after all I can always bake another!