[embedded content] Welcome to this week’s episode, our penultimate episode of our Sailing Australia series. Today we’re in the Whitsundays and enjoy a day out sailing in our Seawind 1260 before going ashore and discovering a secret waterfall that isn’t even in the guidebooks… Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/we-discovered-a-secret/ More
[embedded content] This week we’re sailing to a wonderful anchorage called Butterfly Bay in the Whitsunday Islands. We have no phone signal, no internet, no TV or radio- we are completely cut off from the world and that’s just how we like it. sailing whitsundays Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/cut-off-from-the-world/ More
[embedded content] Don’t you hate it when your day is going so incredibly well, the sun is shining, you’re surrounded by beauty, life is good- and then you make one little mistake and it costs you big time. Yeah, so we do. This week we make a silly Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/a-very-expensive-mistake/ More
[embedded content] This week we kick off our episode with a rescue mission under the cover of darkness to help out some fellow cruisers who get themselves into a bit of a pickle. Then we sail to the famous Whitehaven Beach, which is apparently the most beautiful beach Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/late-night-rescue-mission/ More
[embedded content] This was, beyond any doubt, our best sail ever on a catamaran. We get a nice strong sailing breeze, put the sails up and off we go! A cracking sail through the Whitsunday Islands. Later, we anchor in the beautiful (but shark infested) Cid Harbour and Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/fast-catamaran-sailing/ More
[embedded content] Welcome to another episode of our sailing adventures in the Whitsundays, Australia! We’re onboard a Seawind 1260 and this week we head to Airlie Beach for some land-based exploration. We get an epic downwind sail in before a toileting problem means we need to change our Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/the-worst-thing-about-boat-life/ More
[embedded content] We’re trying something new! Springing off a dock is always nerve wracking, especially in a brand new boat. We show you how we go in this week’s episode. Sailing the Australian coastline is way more challenging than we’d thought- we really did expect a calm, stress Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/first-time-doing-this-in-a-catamaran/ More
[embedded content] In this week’s episode we’re sailing the Whitsundays in Australia! We had expected tropical paradise but… we were quite wrong! We have very blustery conditions and getting to our anchorage proves more challenging than we thought. sailing whitsundays Click here for full post: http://yachtrubyrose.com/never-sail-with-broken-equipment/ More