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Follow Sailing Catamaran Escape as we cruise the Queensland Coast After staying at The Keppel Bay Marina for a short time we set off again. Heading south towards Hervey Bay we motor up the Mary River to arrive at the heritage city of Maryborough.

In this episode we sail from Shaw Island in The Whitsundays to The Keppel Islands. It was a distance of 212 miles and we had strong northerly winds towards the end of the passage. The entrance to Keppel Bay Marina was very hard to identify as the rocks on...

Sailing further up to Cape York we leave Morris Island behind, make an overnight stop at Night Island then enjoy a great sail to an anchorage at Portland Roads on the mainland. Here the boat is mobbed by a school of huge sharks as soon as we anchor. The fo...

On our way up to Cape York we sail deeper into crocodile territory and take the opportunity to enjoy one of the best aspects of cruising on a sail boat. That is having the ability to stop and explore remote tropical islands all by ourselves. In this episod...

Something different this fortnight with a real time update. As you will be aware, our YouTube Epsiodes can sometimes be a few months behind real time, so we thought we should bring everyone up to date with where we are right now on October 13, what we are ...

#sailing #queensland #LizardIsland This week we sail from Cooktown to Lizard Island, a short passage of 55nm. Our first upwind passage since fixing the boat though and I'm interested to see if the repaired Daggerboard will hold. We had 20-25kts all day and...

After a fabulous few days in Lizard Island’s Mermaid’s Cove we move around to Watson’s Bay to continue our love affair with this glorious sailor's haven, The trek up to the island’s summit where Captain James Cook climbed in 1770 to look for a safe...

#sailing #queensland #cooktown Double Rainbows, wind, rain, squalls, rope in the propeller, new top speed, this passage had it all and we loved it all. You feel alive when your heart is beating. Cairns to an overnight anchorage at the Low-Isles then on to ...

Trade Runner is back in the water and better than ever! After a week on the hard stand repairing the collision damage we get going north again and we are ripping. My new crew member John is pretty excited and I'm loving the strong downwind sailing too. Ne...

We finally say goodbye to Cooktown, with an overnight stop at Cape Bedford on our way north to Lizard Island. Here we head for Mermaid Cove at the north of the island that a cruiser we met in Port Douglas had recommended to us. Thanks Mark. We owe you big ...

We leave the sand cay at beautiful Mackay Reef to sail past Endeavour Reef where James Cook experienced the disaster of grounding on the coral before spending a night on a mooring at the delightful Hope Isles where we go ashore to explore the wildlife rich...

SERIES THREE - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA Our trip up around and into Indonesia starts in earnest as our new crew finally join Our Dreamtime at Port Douglas and we set sail North. Our first stop is the glorious Mackay Reef with its beautiful sand c...