News Archive

Book of the Week: RYA Passage Planning By Rob Tickner, 9:10 PM Sat 19 Nov 2011
Planning, planning, planning. One of the great arts of seamanship. No sea voyage, whether long or short, offshore or within sight of land, should go ahead without adequate planning and this book is your perfect companion to help you prepare thoroughly before setting off. ...[more]

Book of the Week: DIY guide to replacing your boat's engine By Sail-World Cruising, , 7:54 PM Tue 15 Nov 2011
There's nothing worse than instruction manuals which read as though they were written badly in another language and then translated by a someone who doesn't understand the subject. If this frustrates you too, then you'll relate to this book. It is a practical, step-by-step illustrated guide to replacing a boat's engine, aimed at the DIY boat repairer. ...[more]

Book Feature: 'The Somali Pirates' aka 'Deadly Waters' By Sail-World Cruising, 11:49 AM Sun 16 Oct 2011
Are you fascinated by modern-day pirates? Then this might just be the book for you. Somali pirates have for many years terrorised long range cruising sailors with robbing and looting, but the game changed radically in the last year or two, with kidnapping, ransom demands and murder. Author Jay Bahadur, who has spent months infiltrating the world of the Somali Pirate, gives us a close-up look ...[more]

Country kid numbers surge in WA sailing development camps By Yachting WA, , 3:04 PM Sat 15 Oct 2011
Well done country sailors in Western Australia - the annual Yachting WA Development Camps have this year attracted a notable increase in participation by country sailors for the first time in many years. ...[more]

Girls and women start sailing in conservative Oman By Sail-World Cruising, , 7:35 PM Tue 11 Oct 2011
In a country where the great majority of women still wear the chador, girls are going sailing! Now women may be joining them too. Empowerment in Oman has received a strong impetus this week when Oman Sail launched a sailing programme exclusively for women and introduced 30 women sailors to an impressive gathering at Oman Sail’s office at The Wave Muscat. ...[more]

A cruising sailor's best friend: The Weather Window By Des Ryan, 3:45 PM Tue 11 Oct 2011
One of the main differences between racing and cruising, apart from the competitiveness or otherwise, is the constant use by cruising sailors of the concept of the Weather Window. But what exactly is a 'Weather Window'? ...[more]

Book of the Week: Two's a Crew by Jack and Jude Binder By Sail-World Cruising, , 12:14 PM Fri 23 Sep 2011
Now in its second edition, Two’s a Crew is a cruising narrative by Jack and Jude Binder of their circumnavigation of Australia between February 2007 and June 2009. As they say in their first chapter, the story really starts many years before. ...[more]

Red lights for good night vision - but why? By Lee Mylchreest, 11:02 AM Fri 23 Sep 2011
Red lights in the cockpit or cabin are there to protect your night vision - that critically important sense to achieve the very best outcome when scanning for objects on the horizon at night. But have you ever wondered just why the red lights achieve this? Read on... ...[more]

CYCA Medical Management for Mariners 11 October, 2011 By John Keelty/ Sail-World Cruising, 10:04 AM Mon 5 Sep 2011
Accidents or medical problems can happen at sea and a sailor needs to be able to cope for longer than the typical emergency on land requires. Any well prepared sailor needs to have a set of skills to cope with any contingency. To overcome this problem the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, based in Rushcutters Bay in Sydney has developed the Medical Management for Mariners course. ...[more]

The No.1 Most Important Hitch for Sailing and How to Use It! By John Jamieson, Florida , 11:28 AM Fri 12 Aug 2011
Master rigger and author Brion Toss calls the rolling hitch the single most 'ridiculously underused' nautical knot today. And for good reason... Not many knots can be tied or untied under strain or loosened when wet, or will hold without slipping on a wet rail or spa r- or save your life when other less worthy knots might give way. Check out this list of uses for the super reliable rolling hitch ...[more]

Five Marine Flare Steps Every Sailing Skipper Needs to Know! By John Jamieson, Florida , 10:38 AM Fri 29 Jul 2011
John Jamieson, with 25+ years of experience shows sailing skippers the skills they need for safer cruising. Here he points out the necessity to have you and your crew proficient with flares BEFORE you need to use them: Are you sure you know how to use a flare gun, flare launcher, flare smoke, or flare parachute? ...[more]

Using a jocky pole By Grant Headifen, Nauticed/Sail-World, 7:35 AM Fri 1 Jul 2011
There are many reasons why a cruising boat would want to go faster than usual - to beat a storm at sea or to get somewhere before dark. How well does your boat do on a beam or a broad reach? If the answer is 'not very well', then there's a way of using spinnaker to make your boat perform better - using it like a gennaker. But that's where the problem can arise, solved by the jockey pole. ...[more]

Book Review: Small Boat to Freedom By Rob Tickner, 3:08 PM Wed 29 Jun 2011
Not everyone is prepared to resign from a perfectly good job, sell off the family real estate, ask their spouse and teenage son to board a 31-foot performance cruising yacht, and then set sail for a questionable financial future in another country, in the opposite hemisphere. ...[more]

Lightning - myth and reality By Commanders' Weather Corporation, 7:21 AM Sun 19 Jun 2011
Lightning strikes fear into the heart of even the most experienced cruising sailor, fisher or boater with much written about how to protect your boat and you when threatened. However, over the years myths have grown about lightning which have become wide-spread, and here Commanders' Weather Corporation dispels some of them: ...[more]

Book of the Week: SEAsoned: A Chef's Journey with Her Captain: By Maryglenn McCombs, , 12:10 PM Fri 10 Jun 2011
If you love both eating and sailing this might be the book for you: Victoria Allman, yacht chef to the rich and famous, has published a new book, SEAsoned: A Chef’s Journey with Her Captain. It is a tantalizing travel adventure tale. ...[more]

Ten Tips to prepare for a lightning strike on a sailing boat By BoatUS Seaworthy Magazine, , 11:04 AM Mon 30 May 2011
Lightning strikes can bring fear to the heart of even the most experienced of sailors. While a storm at sea may bring difficult conditions from wind and sea state, the experienced sailor has a range of techniques for avoiding disaster. However, lightning is another story. BoatUS' Seaworthy Magazine has these tips: ...[more]

The Ten Golden Watchkeeping Rules By Captain John Jamieson, 8:30 PM Wed 25 May 2011
How good are you at keeping watch? What makes a valuable underway watchstander? Are you wondering why you weren't invited back after that last passage? Here Captain John Jamieson gives ten golden rules about how to be the best watch keeper and a good friend to your crew mates (even if there is only one) Check your own skills against this list: ...[more]

Book Review:'Sailing, Yachts and Yarns' by Tom Cunliffe. By Rob Tickner, 6:52 AM Sun 15 May 2011
'Sailing, Yachts and Yarns' is a treasure chest of nautical wit and wisdom. Tom Cunliffe has chosen the very best of his writing for Yachting Monthly magazine to ensure a lively mix of anecdote, opinion and instruction. ...[more]

Sailing instructor suspended after sail training venture goes wrong By Sail-World Cruising, 8:45 AM Sun 8 May 2011
A red-faced sailing instructor said he 'totally understood' being suspended after leading four very experienced laser dinghy sailors close to some of the most treacherous waters off the southern coastline of England, the Portland Tidal Race, which can run at eight knots during spring tides. ...[more]

Book of the Week: 'Shooting Stars and Flying Fish' By Des Ryan, 9:08 AM Thu 5 May 2011
When Nancy Knudsen and her architect husband Ted Nobbs decide to escape their high-pressure corporate lives and follow a dream of sailing around the world together, little do they guess where their journey will lead them and the strange events which are to turn their lives upside-down. ...[more]

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