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A recent article in an overseas magazine has prompted discussion on the value (and danger) of tying yourself to your boat. John and Lyn Martine of the Island Cruising Association wrote this excellent piece in reply, aimed at cruising couples:…
Thirty boats sailing as part of World ARC 2016-17 departed Rodney Bay Marina in Saint Lucia on Saturday 9 January for the start of an epic 26,000 mile adventure around the world. World ARC is a circumnavigation rally for cruising…
Mmmm, lobster. Rather expensive to buy, but rather easy to catch. Lobster is one of those ingredients that needs little effort or fussing about to prepare a wonderful meal from. Butter, champagne and tarragon, I am convinced, are things put…
Recently, I almost put to sea fully aware that my vessel’s exhaust system might be on its last gasp. Fortunately, commonsense prevailed and I remained at anchor to unwrap the lagging and check it out, an act that caused the…
We came to Streaky Bay after crossing the Great Australian Bight from the west and have now traversed further south towards Port Lincoln. But we figure sailing the opposite way would make good use of the south east prevailing winds…
The Northern Advocate. By Imran Ali. A yachtie is helpless to stop opportunist thieves helping themselves to prized possession on board his stricken yacht – 11 days after it ran aground off Ruakaka on New Zealand's north east coast. Geoff…
From Business Day Live. By Staff Writers. THE National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) went to the aid of a yacht which was reported to have a snapped anchor chain and was being swept towards rocks at Mass Bay near Kleinmond…
Handy Shipping Guide: ATLANTIC OCEAN – Early on 27 December 2015, Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines' ship Braemar came to the aid of a sailing yacht marooned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, with the dramatic rescue of the 14-metre…
Ottawa Citizen. By Bruce Deachman. Northern Magic, the 42-foot steel, twin-masted sailboat that most famously carried Ottawa’s Stuemer family on a four-year, 65,000-kilometre circumnavigation of the globe, now lies grounded on Uruguay’s rocky coastline, only six metres or so from the…
Bridgetown, Barbados (22 December, 2015): As preparations to mark the 80th anniversary of the Mount Gay Round Barbados Race Series (16-24 January 2016), and to commemorate 50 years of independence for Barbados continue, islanders have welcomed the first overseas race…
Stuff.co.nz by Michael Forbes and Tom Hunt A boatie who bought a $500 yacht with no engine, radio, navigation equipment or life jackets had to be stopped from sailing it from Wellington to Westport. Maritime New Zealand said the Wellington yachtie…
The mystery of the Queensland sailor who has been missing since leaving Hervey Bay in late November has deepend after his boat was spotted 177 nautical miles east of Coffs Harbour this morning. Eero Tiitinen spoke to his family on…
Stuff.co.nz. By Laura Walters. Police have criticised a man for going out on his yacht with no lifejacket after drinking alcohol, sparking an almost five-hour search in Northland. Coastguard duty officer Mark Lever said the 63-year-old was transferring his 29-foot…
Having been in existence for over five years, we thought it was time to take the next step, and what a step it is going to be. Never before have we been able to focus our entire lives to the…
For sailors on the ARC+ route of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, last night's prize-giving ceremony in Saint Lucia marked the end of their Atlantic adventure that began in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on the eastern side of…
The Bureau of Meteorology will upgrade the West Takone radar in 2016, with the radar offline when work commences early February. The new radar will provide higher resolution rain and Doppler wind images on the Bureau's website from early…
According to a report by Lea Emery of the Fraser Coast Chronicle, police are calling for public help to find Eero Tiitinen who was last seen at Hervey Bay Marina on November 17. Mr Tiitinen, 67, set off from Hervey…
In the lead up to this year's Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race there is one famous previous winner which is preparing for something quite different. The famous yacht Solo has stood abandoned on the hardstand of a Brisbane shipyard now…
VO65 Team Brunel has broken the ARC Course Record sailing from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to Rodney Bay, Saint Lucia in an elapse time of 8d 7h 39m 30s. This is the third consecutive year that the Course Record…
The sound of a spooling fishing reel caught our attention. Our joy at catching a fish was replaced by horror when we realised that an Albatross had managed to become entangled in our trailing lure. Not wishing to hurt such…
Sometimes it is the little things in life that make all the difference. It has been more than three and a half years since we left our native UK and set off to sail the world. Since then we have…
From the relative safety of the house we used to call home, we found ourselves to be little affected by the weather. Sure, if it was raining it might be inconvenient to get to and from the car on the…
Years and months of intense planning and preparation finally paid off today as the yachts taking part in ARC 2015 made their way out of Muelle Deportivo in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria this morning. There was an air of…
The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race, the world’s longest ocean race, will stop in the Whitsundays Airlie Beach this January for the first time in its nineteen year history. The biennial 40,000 mile Clipper Race is regarded as one…
The 2016 Bay of Islands Sailing Week is shaping up to be an international affair, as the regatta's popularity continues to grow overseas. Already one of the most popular events on the New Zealand yachting calendar, the annual Bay of…
The Bureau of Meteorology launched a new video as part of its cyclone awareness campaign aimed at improving understanding of tropical cyclone warnings. The launch comes after the release of the Bureau of Meteorology’s Tropical Cyclone Outlook earlier this month,…
With one week to go before the ARC 2015 fleet leave Las Palmas for Rodney Bay in Saint Lucia, crews from the 179 yachts already berthed in the marina took part in the official ARC 2015 Opening Ceremony. The final…
The MyState Australian Wooden Boat Festival recently won the Tasmanian Tourist Award for 'Best major event or festival'. Announced at a gala dinner at Wrest Point Casino, the award, according to AWBF chairman Stephen Knight, “belongs to the hundreds of…
The New Zealand newspaper Marlborough Express is reporting that a mystery wreck found at the bottom of Picton Harbour may be missing yacht the Sioux,according to police. Acting Area Commander Senior Sergeant Peter Payne said images provided by the Navy…
The world’s largest luxury catamaran, Hemisphere, has found a fitting base this week in the heart of the Great Barrier Reef. The 44 metre catamaran, with its 16.6m beam found a home within Airlie Beach’s Abell Point Marina. Abell Point…
AMSA Search and Rescue reports coordinating the response to a ketch taking on water near Melville Island in the Northern Territory. An Australian Border Force aircraft received a VHF mayday call from the vessel about 6am AEDT this morning and…
This November, over 260 boats and 1250 people including 40 children aged under 16 will take part in the 30th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, which sets sail from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, heading 2700NM across the Atlantic to Saint…
The STS Leeuwin II is offering an exclusive opportunity to join an historical voyage along the Western Australian coastline to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first Dutch contact with WA made by Dutch sailor and explorer Dirk Hartog. On…
As you will know from our previous reports, in July 2015, 52 Cruising boats of all shapes and sizes, from all over the world, came together for the start of the 2015 Multihull Solutions 2015 Sail 2 Indonesia Rally run by…
It is not everyone’s dream to sail an open boat down the Hawkesbury River in mid-winter but it was Rosco’s. Ross Pollard is a sailor, a carpenter and a lover of wooden boats. After reading Captain Cook’s journals he liked…
Those of you who attended Cruising Helmsman’s Captain’s Deck in Manly (Qld) last November, will have already been introduced to the Boomerang. Two people from that event were even lucky enough to become owners of the device. For those that…
Two days out from Middle Island on our sailing around Australia adventures aboard Easy Tiger, we started sailing into choppy seas. The swell coming behind us from the southwest was about three metres high and there was a wind-wave or…
Our dreams recently enticed us to begin exploring the Solitary Islands. Named by Captain Cook from HM Bark Endeavour in May 1770, the Solitary Islands include five major islands and a scattering of smaller islands/reefs off the NSW coast between…
I had the good fortune to encounter a charming couple doing a circumnavigation in a rather large cat some weeks ago. Their boat is massive, an opulently appointed floating apartment that had me justifiably jealous. We got to talking about…
Never heard of it? I am not surprised, I just made it up. I use the term to explain my urge to explore and discover, like Columbus on his first voyage, rather than go somewhere I have been before, like…
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