Dreamtimesail Archive – Page 2

Sailing Australia’s Great Barrier Reef we find a whole tropical island paradise to ourselves and make the most of it. You don't have to be in your twenties with an Instagram body to enjoy a naked swim and nude beach walk in the sunshine. Normanby Island ...

We island hop through Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on our Whitby 42 ketch as we head south ahead of the coming cyclone season leaving Kent Island stopping at Dunk, Gould and Hinchinbrook Islands on the way to spending a few days enjoying the sunshine a...

Fantome Island in the Palm Group of Islands on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is yet another beautiful, tropical wonderland cooled by the trade winds and lapped by crystal clear waters. However, it has a very dark past and was the scene of great misery f...

Some sailing days are just near perfect. After a short but beautiful stop at Picnic Bay on Magnetic Island we’re up before dawn to sail ‘Our Dreamtime’, a Whitby 42 ketch, 70 nautical miles further south through Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to Ca...

Sailing amongst the islands of the Great Barrier Reef, we’re always on the lookout for the perfect weather window to spend time amongst the coral lagoons of the outer reef. In this episode we scored perfect, glass out conditions for a three day stop on O...

This time on Dreamtime Sail we leave stunning Bait Reef to sail our Whitby 42 ketch to some of the Whitsunday Islands most beautiful locations starting with Langford Reef off Hayman Island. We spend a tranquil night on a mooring at Stonehaven on Hook Islan...

After another stop in Coral Seas Marina at Airlie Beach, it's time to leave the Whitsunday Islands behind and continue our journey south through Australia's Great Barrier Reef. We make a short, upwind hop to anchor at Happy Bay on Long Island in anticipat...

After leaving the beautiful Newry Islands we play dodgem cars sailing our ketch through the huge field of bulk coal carriers anchored off Mackay. You never know when one is going to up anchor and move into the dock for their turn to load at the Hay Point f...

Sail along with us through Australia’s Great Barrier Reef Islands on the Whitby 42 Ketch, ‘Our Dreamtime’. After a sleepless night on anchor-watch, we couldn’t wait to escape from the rocky bottomed bay on the southern side of Curlew Island and mak...

We continue sailing Our Dreamtime south from Port Clinton, making our way past the bogey spot of our passage north at Cape manifold. It was here we suffered our only ever knockdown five months earlier and Karen was still feeling apprehensive. This time how...

We leave Great Keppel Island in the early morning darkness with the plan of sailing south to Pancake Creek but when we get there the anchorage is very full of boats. So we decide to keep going into the night clocking up 131 nautical miles to reach Burnett ...

We’re not quite up the creek without a paddle as we navigate the Burnett River to anchor in Bundaberg’s Town reach for the first time. Here we explore this delightful regional city, enjoy its outstanding Bert Hinkler Aviation Museum and welcome aboard ...

Join us as we sail across Hervey Bay from Burnett Heads in company with buddy boats Whoosh and Velindra to anchor off Wathumba Creek on K’Gari, the indigenous name of Fraser Island, where we discover paradise. Powdery white sand beaches lapped by crystal...

On Our Dreamtime we enjoy a fantastic spinnaker run down the inside of K’Gari (Fraser Island) while water bombing aircraft fly over head battling huge fires ashore. After a stop in Garry’s Anchorage in the Great Sandy Straits to shelter from some stron...

In this video we cross some of the most dangerous waters in Queensland, the Wide Bay Bar, but not before waiting for the right weather conditions, consulting the Tin Can Bay Volunteer Coast Guard and taking all the sensible safety precautions. Then we sail...

Our eight month odyssey sailing amongst the tropical islands of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef on our Whitby 42 ketch finally comes to an end. We leave beautiful Double Island Point and then experience everything from no wind to a near gale all in the o...

After a number of comments on our Dreamtime Sail social media, we invited people to send us the questions they would like answered about our sailing, live aboard lifestyle, boat and any other aspect of cruising. In this Part One video we begin answering th...

After a number of comments on our Dreamtime Sail social media, we invited people to send us the questions they would like answered about our sailing, live aboard lifestyle, boat and any other aspect of cruising. In this Part Two video we begin answering th...

Well we’ve finally done the boat tour video people have been asking for. There’s so much to show on and in our 1982 Whitby 42 Ketch built in Ontario, Canada that we’ve split into two parts for you. In this first video we take you through full details...

Well we’ve finally done the boat tour video people have been asking for. There’s so much to show on and in our 1982 Whitby 42 Ketch built in Ontario, Canada that we’ve split into two parts for you. In this second video we take you through full detail...

While we regularly inspect our rigging looking for any developing problems, hopefully before they happen, we decided to pay for a professional rig check before embarking on our next adventure. Follow along as Darrin, “The Yacht Rigger” explains the ent...

After being tied to the dock overcoming health challenges for the last 20 months, we make final preparations to cast off the lines and sail north to the Great Barrier Reef. There’s a Costco trip to load our ketch with bulk provisions. We fill our fuel ta...

We’re on our way north again to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and already the fish are being hauled in while we sail. How we do it is one of our most asked questions and in this episode Rob reveals our no longer secret “Spero Rig” that has transfo...

We were sad to leave the beautiful sand lagoon anchorage at Double Island Point but sailing north in Spring, we need to make use of every weather window available, so it was another crossing of the ever-changing Wide Bay Bar. We have never followed the sam...

In today’s episode we finally leave Gary’s Anchorage at K’Gari and wind our way through the narrow channels of the Great Sandy Straits to Big Woody Island for a catch up with friends. Our early start next morning goes awry when the engine won’t st...

We hadn’t planned to spend long in the Port of Bundaberg Marina but unfavourable winds and a long list of boat jobs conspired to keep us there for over a week. Thanks to one of our generous Patreon supporters, Griff, we made good use of a loan car and hi...

#shorts In Episode 59 on Dreamtime Sail's YT channel we sail our Whitby 42 ketch from Pancake Creek to Great Keppel Island dodging our way through hundreds of huge bulk carriers anchored off the Port of Gladstone. The full episode will be published Friday ...

We sail Our Dreamtime north from Burnett Heads to remote anchorage at Pancake Creek where we spend some time exploring the natural delights of this out of the way location only accessible by boat. We also visit the historic Bustard Head Lighthouse cloaked ...

We leave Pancake Creek and Bustard Head lighthouse to continue our trek north to our planned stop at beautiful Great Keppel Island. Enroute, we have to navigate our way through hundreds of huge bulk carrier ships anchored off the Port of Gladstone waiting...

A sneak peek at @Dreamtimesail new epsiode out on Friday

After a short stop at Great Keppel Island we sailed on north to Port Clinton while the weather allowed us. When we arrived at Perforated Point we had the anchorage all to ourselves for the first time since leaving Brisbane. We enjoyed three days in this id...

What began as an easy downwind sail from Port Clinton to Middle Percy Island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef became more complicated as the wind and sea state built, we had a near collision with a huge motorboat and finally we suffered a serious riggin...

What began as an easy downwind sail from Port Clinton to Middle Percy Island on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef became more complicated as the wind and sea state built, we had a near collision with a huge motorboat and then suffered a serious rigging fail...

The full video will be out on Friday March 3 at 4.00pm

We have yet another fantastic visit to West Bay and the Cruiser’s A-Frame at Middle Percy Island before sailing further north to Keswick Island where we spend a couple of days sheltering from high winds while enjoying the pure white sand beach and crysta...