2022 - 2 is the 20th Anniversary of our Cruise aboard Ocean Child.

It was a life changing experience for us all.

Welcome to the website we created in 2002-2004

This is reality cruising...barnacles and all...In October 2002 we set off from Hobart in Tasmania, an Island south of Australia, to sail North to Melbourne and along Australia’s East Coast, looking for adventure!

This website was set up to track the progress of Jeff Gordon and Ann-Maree O'Brien (AMOB), and their two small children Alec - three years and Lucas - 10 months, on a cruising sabbatical year aboard their Stuart 47 sloop Ocean Child.

In Jeff’s words at the time…"Ann-Maree and I decided to take a year out of our busy working lives primarily to enjoy this very special time with our two children. It has necessitated selling our houses in Battery Point and downsizing to a 47ft yacht, to become liveaboard sailors, cruising the East Coast of Australia, from Hobart to Queensland waters and back."

These pages were established to inform our friends, relatives and people we met during our journey of our experiences, and life onboard. We are telling it "warts and all" with a fair bit of humour for your enjoyment and our record. If you have ever thought of "goin cruisin" then the information we provide here may be of use to you.