In this episode, we anchor Our Dreamtime off the northern tip of Cape York to go ashore and stand on the very top of mainland Australia. Every year thousands of eager off-roaders make the pilgrimage up the Cape in four wheel drives to ‘Tick the box’ wi...
We’re on our final push north to the top of Australia sailing from Portland Roads to beautiful Cape Grenville where we discover the biggest, tastiest oysters of our lives. Then it’s on to Mount Adolphous Island in the Torres Strait after an overnight s...
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 ...
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...
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...
4th leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
We sailed from Cairns to the marina at Yorky’s Knob for a week of final preparations and boat jobs to ready Our Dreamtime for the offshore passage across to Indonesia ahead. The to do list was long ...
2nd leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
We leave beautiful Fitzroy Island with a spirited sail but short sail to Trinity Inlet at Cairns where we share the anchorage with huge cruise liners and 100+ million dollars Superyachts.
While our g...
3rd leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
After sitting out a week of high winds and driving rain at Clump Point we loved getting off the boat and exploring beautiful Mission Beach. Then the weather turned perfect to head for the outer reefs ...
2nd leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
After a short stop at beautiful Dunk Island, we run to nearby Clump Point at Mission Beach to take shelter from nearly a week of atrocious strong winds and heavy rain. We are boat bound for days keepi...
UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA – SERIES THREE BEGINS
We have finally taken that first small step that every epic journey begins with. We leave Breakwater Marina in Townsville and sail to Orpheus Island for our first stop on a trip planned to take us all...
The time had come. SV Our Dreamtime had not been out of the water since pre-covid days so we expected a tough week’s work when she was hauled out at Townsville’s Rosshaven Marina and that’s pretty much what we got in 32-34c heat. Having said that, we...
As we make final preparations on our 1982 Whitby 42 ketch, SV Our Dreamtime, for international cruising, one of the biggest issues we face is electrical power. On top of essential lighting, instruments, radios, watermaker, refrigeration, pumps, fans etc we...
Leaving your boat in the middle of the cyclone zone over summer may seem fool hardy but after doing our research into the frequency of catastrophic storm events and inspecting a range of facilities on the coast, we decided to do just that and secured SV Ou...
On our final passage of our trip from Brisbane we cover the last 70 nautical miles from Cape Upstart to Breakwater Marina in Townsville where Our Dreamtime will be secured for the northern cyclone season. We have to overcome some mechanical issues first th...
After a short visit to the Whitsunday Islands, we leave Airlie Beach and push on North towards our cyclone season base in Townsville. The first stop along the way is at the sailor friendly Cape Gloucester Eco Resort. Then we have a very busy day pulling in...
After a delightful few days at Keswick island off Mackay, we push further north. We still can’t use our mainsail due to the sheet bracket on the boom we broke earlier on the trip north, but we still find ourselves sailing along so nicely with just headsa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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