Marinas Guide to Australia - It's About Time!
by Nancy Knudsen on 20 Aug 2008
MarinasGuide to Australia - about time! SW
It's about time! There are Marina Guides to almost every other sailing-mad country in the world - why not Australia? Now, for the first time, when you are contemplating a trip, this website will tell you where the marinas are - precisely, showing you with an easy click a Google Earth hybrid map of the marina. The website has just been launched as a comprehensive free resource for boaties at www.marinasguide.com.au .
You won't have to rely on ad hoc information any more, because this site amis to list every marina in Australia, almost 300 marinas (and even a few safe harbours where conventional marinas don't exist) are included in this directory.
The Guide was developed to meet your needs after extensive research and development. The site is designed for mariners regardless of your style of recreational pursuit: new boat purchasers looking for berth options; small boat owners exploring local waterways; international and Australian cruisers making coastal passages; past and future boat owners who enjoy a boating and waterfront lifestyle. All demographics share one common need: to be kept informed about marinas and boating lifestyles.
Research indicated that you want to enjoy your day, week, month or year out on the water and don't want to waste lots of time trawling the web trying to find a safe marina stopover.
When undertaking passage planning, you want to know where the safe harbours were located. You need to know which facilities are available and how to contact the harbourmaster. Once you reach a new cruising ground you want to know about local services and facilities. Enter Marinasguide.com.au .
Fiona Harper, founding Editor of this definitive online marina guide has stepped up to meet the demand. With qualifications in travel, journalism and yachting, she has diverse skills and experience and is a member of Aust Journalists Assoc and the Aust Society of Travel Writers. Additionally, she has over 20 years of commercial, racing and leisure boating experience in Australia, New Zealand and across the Asia/Pacific region. As a result, there’s hardly a local waterway or marina that she doesn't have first hand knowledge of.
The Australian Marinas Guide utilises the latest in internet interactivity. A custom designed mapping system offers aerial views of every marina, allowing users to zoom in to gain a birds eye view of marina layouts. This 'Maps' section of the Guide is working brilliantly today, and it will now be up to the marinas of Australia to realise the benefit and take advantage of having their marinas listed with full detail and photos - for which they will have to pay a small fee.
There will be other more comprehensive information on the site as well. Once the site develops an Events Calendar will keep users up to date with boat shows, regattas and festivals. Trip Planners comprise coastal passage and anchorage notes to help with passage planning. On the Waterfront is where boaties can find out what to see and do in unfamiliar destinations. The site is being designed with safety-oriented fun loving boaties in mind who want to explore new destinations.
Try it now. Click www.marinasguide.com.au and use the 'Maps' link to find a marina.
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