SAIL TO ROTTNEST
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Pia Hooper
e launched our Opti’s at 5:30am from Fremantle Sailing Club and before we knew it, we were off. Our Opti’s successfully covered the distance of 42km approximately there and return, with no stops along the way or capsizes, phew. The duration of the trip consisted of 4h 30mins on the way there and 2h return with the seabreeze powering us along. When we arrived at Thomson Bay at around 10am, to our surprise a bit of a cheer squad formed on the shore. Basically, just our super supportive family.
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uring our break we hydrated and refuelled on delicious meat pies from the Rottnest bakery. A well earned treat. Whilst eating we were trying to ignore the fact that we had to sail back, since we were so tired. The seabreeze was a little late to arrive, so we hopped on the RFBYC RIB with Shelly
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