All your instructional guides for Cruising

10 Mar 2010

Getting from A to B offshore can be demanding enough, let alone in a boat you are unfamiliar with and in a strange country. Sharon Smallwood explains how she and husband Julian prepared for the task when they took delivery of a new boat in Malaysia.

01 Mar 2010

John Needs and his family find plenty to like about their ever-green Mottle 33, Cascade.

01 Mar 2010

Have you ever read a cruising story and become so involved with the voyage that you almost felt you were on board? Well, this is what marine artist Jack Woods feels as he works on his paintings of cruising yachts. He talks about his passion.

01 Mar 2010

How can you assess if a chart you are using is reliable? Mike Prince, Director of Charting, Australian Hydrographic Service, tackles this and other related issues.

24 Feb 2010

Ever seen funny-looking numbers in the stats box at the end of a boat review? Weird stuff like ballast/displacement = 0.35 or SA/disp = 16.7? John Champion explains what they mean and how to use them to help you determine which boat is right for you.

16 Feb 2010

Should the electronic plotter go on the blink or the handheld GPS fail, what do you do?

08 Feb 2010

Necessity is the mother of invention, Christine Muir and Keith Hunt discover when their dinghy is stolen and damaged.

08 Feb 2010

Alice Hawkins, 11, who is 90 percent of the way through a world circumnavigation, talks about the highs and lows of life on the high seas and offers some advice for kids and parents following in her wake.

08 Feb 2010

Choosing what kind of electronic navigational system to buy can be confusing, with a myriad of products on the market. Jon Neeves leads the way through the maze with this look at chartplotters and other options.

27 Jan 2010

Steve Hopkinson and wife Rachel thank their lucky stars for the latest electronic addition to their crew, an Automatic Identification System, when they find themselves on a collision course with a large ship.