I’ve lived aboard this boat for 6 years as second owner, while working in the Netherlands. Now retired, I have to relocate casually and efficiently back to Australia via the Panama Route. The boat is both a home and an office for ongoing product design work. I have sailed across the Tasman once, years ago, and have minimal sailing experience since then, so am looking for competent and confident crew to participate in the “adventure”. I have a Captain who teaches sailing to take the boat through the English Channel from whom I will get my primary training for the journey on the way to Brest where he will leave the boat and return to NL. At 73, I am technically old but young in spirit, and get on well with all ages. My work life has been largely industrial. I am a designer, an inventor, an entrepreneur, and a business owner.

usually cleancomfortableusually single handedlive on little moneyface challenges

The boat is a 45’ sloop with a swing keel (minimum draft 1 meter). The rig is new with the mast supported by 10 stays. The sails are original (I believe) so are older but with little use. I have a new Cutter sail for the trip. Both head sail and main sail are roller reefed with the main reefing into the mast. The Cutter sail is a Henk on onto a removable inner forestay, and with one reef. There is a Sailrite sewing machine aboard.
Navigation is upgraded with Axiom Pro, Quantum 2 Radar, RayMarine AIS, and Ray91 VHF Phone. There are multiple tablet computers aboard for auxiliary navigation and a StarLink should be installed aboard before leaving. The Life Raft is recently serviced and with service certificate. There is a 200 Ltr/min capacity Safety Vessel Grade bilge Pump Installed.
The electrical system is a combined Lithium and AGM battery arrangement with 12 KwHr usable capacity and 1Kw Capacity Solar Array, and with a 1 Kw petrol generator for backup. The energy system is all Victron and MG with a 3000 Watt inverter/charger.
I have an old 2.7m dinghy aboard which leaks air, but responds well to getting pumped up.
Refrigeration aboard is basic and on the future upgrade list.
This is a long range delivery cruise from the Netherlands to Australia via the Canaries, the Caribbean, the Panama, French Polynesia, New Zealand and entering Australia through Lord Howe Island. Then perhaps the some Barrier Reef cruising.
If there is a plan beyond that it would be, that having lived in Australia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Australia, Old Zealand (Holland, the Netherlands), and come to appreciate the connection of the Dutch with the places where I have lived through my life, I now have a fondness for that early Dutch Sailor, Abel Tasman. Tasman, an ancient mariner, who navigated all of these places hundreds of years ago. So I have a mission to live, at least a few years, in Tasmania the first of Tasman’s discoveries.
Interesting facts: the Netherlands: 33,000 square kilometers. Tasmania: 66,000 square kilometers. The Netherlands in half the area of Tasmania has two thirds the population of Australia, achieving nearly two thirds the GDP of Australia with little more than some natural gas, and lots of water as natural resources……..plus Location.

clean & tidycommittedenthusiastictrustworthyconfident swimmerrarely/unlikely seasickpositive outlooksense of humorenjoy cookingwill not bring a pet

Having an ICC would be desirable. Being a competent all weather safety minded sailor is the primary qualification.