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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
After an extended stay in Cairns we provision the boat for our 1000 mile trip south through the Great Barrier Reef islands back to Brisbane and out of the cyclone zone before the season begins. Karen explains how to make the job easier and cheaper. We thro...
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