We got up early to check everything in preparation to leave Tin Can Bay to start heading back to Brisbane. Pulled out the life jackets and lay them close by to put them on when we start crossing the Wide Bay bar. The weather was good. What can go wrong? Nothing!?

Eden residents thronged to the cliffs watching a wild orca pack herding great blubber bearing baleen whales into Twofold Bay for the whalemen to harpoon and kill.

Three and a half miles into Bass Strait with sloppy seas of around 3 meters and we suddenly had a steering issue.

Prevention is better than rescue. Here are 9 tips to avoiding a MOB.

13 useful tips when provisioning for your next cruise.

One of the very first questions that arises when the crew realise that not all of them can go to sleep during the night, is “who will be on watch and when?”.

Ever wondered what “8 bells, first dog watch” means?

One day, around 1991, I noticed a big, green boat sitting on a small hill in Redland Bay. I went and said hello, and had the pleasure of making friends with Greg and Cheryl Vining.

For the last few years, I’ve been searching around the Internet for mention of my last yacht ‘Narena’. Well I finally found her, alive and well in the Mediterranean.

What’s the difference between a boat and a ship?