Whitby 42 Ketch YouTube Videos
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Becalmed to Near Gale – The Final Sail of our Great Barrier Reef Cruising Season – Ep 47
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...
Safely crossing the treacherous Wide Bay Bar & sailing into the Double Island Point Lagoon. – Ep 46
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...
Hiding from 60 Knot winds in the Great Sandy Straights – We also feed Tin Can Bay dolphins. Ep 45
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...
We found Paradise – Anchored at K’Gari (Fraser Island) The world’s largest sand island. – Episode 44
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...
Up the creek without a paddle – Navigating the Burnett River to Bundaberg’s Town Reach – Episode 43
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 ...
An Unexpected Night Passage to Burnett Heads – Our Tips for Staying Safe Sailing at Night – Ep 42
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 ...
Trapped by Great Keppel Island Again – It really is Australian sailors’ favourite stop – Episode 41
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...
DOING IT TOUGH – Another tropical island anchorage to ourselves – Hunter Island & Port Clinton Ep 40
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...
Why won’t our anchor hold? A sleepless night at the Great Barrier Reef’s Curlew Island. Episode 39
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...
We discover the secret hideaway of Australia’s first ever sex siren of the silver screen.- Ep 38
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...
The Best of the Whitsundays – A Sailing Odyssey in 20 Minutes – Episode 37
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...
Face to face with a monster of the reef in glassed out conditions – Ep 36
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...
We catch fish, fish and more fish sailing from Magnetic Island to Cape Upstart – Ep 35
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...
Anchored off Hell on Earth in a Tropical Paradise – The grim story of Fantome Island – Ep 34
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...