Wednesday July 11 Katrina, Nick and I set sail at 0630 in a 10-15 knot NW heading for home. Made much better progress that I expected averaging 6 knots (rather than the 4 knots I had planned).

Whales, dolphins, then the wind dropped around 3pm. Motored for about 6 hours until the wind picked up again.

Reached Point Perpindicular around 0300 Thursday morning, then the wind dropped again. Rather than motoring we continued to sail very slowly, reaching the mooring at Callala Bay about 0645 – 24 hours and 15 minutes after we left Newport.