Explore some beautiful destinations


Cruising the Whitsundays - the things you wished you'd known

Race week fleet 2008

Petrea Heathwood shares some of the lessons many first-timers have to learn the hard way.

Cavalier times in Victoria

Swell crashes on Lady Julia Percy Island.

Peter Nyga rekindles his passion for the ocean during a delivery trip from Hastings to Portland in a Cavalier 26.

Rampaging through the Kimberley

Photo kimberleysaustralia.com

When it comes to cruising the Kimberley, few would be more knowledgeable than Rob and Sue Wakefield, who have made it almost a home away from home in their cat Rampager. Nigel Ridgway asks them to share their experience.

Torres Strait by trimaran

James (right), Darren and Armadilla about to set off from Thursday Island for the second time.

A new adventure by James Francis and friends with a home-built plywood tri; one to read but not imitate?

At home in Albany

A yacht takes advantage of local knowledge, sailing through Ataturk Entrance outside the main shipping channel.

Albany is much more than a bolt-hole from the Southern Ocean, writes Judith Thomson, who likes it so much she has made it her home.

Cruising the Caribbean

For the past two seasons Ian and Andrea Treleaven have been cruising the Caribbean. In this article they give us the Australian perspective on the islands of the Caribbean.

Hopping along in SA

Two visitors.

Bruce Vass enjoys one of South Australia's most popular cruising grounds - Kangaroo Island.

Shop up & ship out

Panama city condos.

An unexpected health crisis adds angst to the task of preparing K-Sera II for the long passage from Panama to the Marquesas Islands, writes Elaine Kleiss.

Where the West Wind blows

Clear water at Lady Musgrave.

Chris Dicker and wife Gilli enjoy some of the east coast's most popular stopovers when they head north in the classic Jock Muir sloop West Wind.

Going outside

Out or in? It's a quandary every cruiser has to face when heading north or south along the Great Barrier Reef. Aideen Henry puts the case for the former.