I had done a similar trip up the Hawkesbury River, with my parents and sister on their 24′ yacht, when I was a child and had fond memories of it, so I was keen to replicate it with my family. We had been thinking of doing our own Hawkesbury River trip for a while now, …
Category Archives: Cruising
WHITSUNDAYS TRIP 29 SEP – 3 OCT 2017
DAY 12 – FRI 29 SEP Hamilton to Plantation Bay, Lindeman Island Had a great day yesterday – just hanging out around the Island, resting and writing the blog. The Admiral’s back has started to play up, and she is really enjoying the opportunity to stand fully upright (which this boat size doesn’t really allow …
WHITSUNDAY TRIP 21-28 SEP 2017
DAY 5 – FRI 22 SEP Airlie Beach to Hamilton Island Got up early and prepared to sail across to Hamilton Island. When attempting to tilt the outboard engine up on the tender just prior to departure, I discovered that the tilt mechanism was broken. Rang HI to see if they had a recommended Yamaha …
WHITSUNDAY TRIP – THE DRIVE UP 18-20 SEP 2017
DAY 1 – MON 18 SEP 50 Knots to Windward Well as always I was late getting away! I had planned an early morning departure, but I had to go via work in the morning, and then a last minute trip to the pharmacy, shops, supermarket, etc! I thought that I might delay my departure …
WHITSUNDAY’s HOLIDAY PLANNING SEPTEMBER – OCTOBER 2017
We have now booked the airfares and have approved leave, so we no longer have any excuses as to why we shouldn’t make the time to take Quo Vadis to the Whitsunday’s. The decision has been made the D will tow the boat from Canberra to either Mackay (1,875 km) or to Airlie Beach (2,022 km). …
GIPPSLAND LAKES – EASTER 2016
DAY 1 – THU 24 MAR 2016 Leaving Quo Vadis at Paynesville after the Marlay Point Overnight Race gave us the perfect excuse to head back down to the Gippsland Lakes for the Easter long weekend. Even though we had hoped that we might get away for a half day on the Thursday we booked the …
PORT STEPHENS 2015 / 16
Day 1 – Wed 30 Dec 15 Well we have finally started the first adventure with Quo Vadis! We left Canberra later than expected and finally got away at 1000. 490 km, two stops (under protest) and six hours later we arrived at Soldiers Point boat ramp where it took us another couple to rig the boat …
PITTWATER / COWAN CREEK DEC 2013
The stars aligned and we finally got family, boat, weather and leave all synchronised for a great week away on Cowan Creek / Pittwater from 16-21 Dec. No expert on the area by any means but I thought I would write up our experiences that may be of use to others! Perfect weather – 26-30 …
