Hi folks. I've only ever made one post on here but watch the site daily. We are currently sitting in Bundaberg Marina and about to head out to Lady Musgrave. We were going to go early this morning but due to the forecast storms and northerly winds we are staying here again tonight. We should have a nice westerly wind to blow us up to Musgrave in the morning, leaving the marina around 3am and plan to get to the island around 3 in the afternoon.
I have the cruising guides and have searched the net for as much information regarding Lady Musgrave island.
The wind is coming up to 15 to 20 knots for Tuesday and then dropping.
Can somebody who has been to Musgrave please advise what anchoring in the lagoon is like as far as protection in the forecast 20 knots on Tuesday ?
I am pretty sure that I already know my answer but I would just like to have someone else confirm it. The boss hasn't done a lot of open water sailing and is a bit concerned.
Hi Rapscallion
At high tide the reef is completely covered, so the lagoon is pretty much unprotected.
The sandy bottom between bommies affords good holding so, if your anchor is dependable, it's doable but it will be rolly and uncomfortable in anything more than about 12 knots.
Many anchor in the lee of the island on the western side in suitable conditions.
It is, however, heaven on a stick out there and not to be missed.
Definitely aim for slack water to enter the lagoon.
Hope you get out there 
Thanks for that. It's pretty much what I already thought. I think I'll check the weather again tonight and take the jump early tomorrow morning to get there for the bottom of the tide at 1430hrs.
BOM has already changed their minds for Tuesday and have it dropping off a bit.
The boss didn't like the description in the coral coast guide about cruisers bouncing on the hook in terror.
I am sure it will be amazing no matter what.
there are about 10 or 12 public mooring buoys in the lagoon now rated to 33kts. i was there about a month ago and there was allways a few spare
Thinking about a visit there too, out of interest is it hard getting around the bommies once you get inside? How shallow are the smaller ones?
Hi rapscallion, did you get out to the reef that day, and did you leave at 3am?
If you did I went past the marina where you were about 20 past 3am, I didn't see you, but had a bizarre incident 5 minutes later and wondered if you suffered the same thing?....
As I was heading out of the Burnett River, just going past the boat harbour (last harbour on the right heading out), all of a sudden there was this massive green light all over me and the boat, I immediately thought I had some how stuffed up the Nav and run into a starboard marker! But as I looked around some dumb moron with a powerful laser was shining it directly into my eyes, I had my eyes wide open already just by sailing at night, and coped some solid direct hits to my eyes before turning away, as the pr!ck was still trying to get my eyes for nearly a minute, the wind was a decent SW'er I just kept going, but as the sun rose, one of my eyes became hot and had to wear a patch over it for the rest of the day to rest it, pirate jokes aside, it was pretty dangerous moving around the boat with just one eye, this laser the military would have been pleased to have, I hope you didn't cop it too,
cheers
That's kinda scary BlueMoon. How wide was the beam, like pencil thin or really wide?
How far away were they do you think?
Unfortunately we didn't get out there. We got up at 3 to leave but the admiral was not well so decided to stay. We are really disappointed that we didn't get to tick musgrave off the list but we intend to get there next chance we have.
There was a decent wind that morning. It would have been a good run out to the island just to rub a bit more salt into the wound.
The laser was probably from one of the less desirable looking individuals I saw fishing off the banks during our stay there. They probably don't even comprehend how dangerous what they did was.
I was pleasantly surprised by the bundy marina. Very clean and modern facilities. It was a good spot to hide out for a couple of days.
Shaggy, the beam was about 10 centimetres wide, and was 300metres away, when the beam was going past me onto the training rock wall on the other side of the channel it would have been 500m away and didn't seem to lose any intensity , I also put it down to a cowardly fisherman, taking the opportunity for a few laughs.
Nevermind raps, you have to leave some areas for next time, that's the good thing about sailing you can see them on the next adventure, I've sailed past so many great places......next time!, the Qld coast is premium sailing and I'm really enjoying it.
