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Choosing the Right Solar Charge Controller/Regulator
Edited text by Cam Wayland (Hunky Dory). As some of you may recall some time ago I changed my house batteries from AGM to Lithium (LiFePO4). While very happy with the battery swap overall some additional fine tuning of the system was required to get the best out of the complete package, especially solar charging.…
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The forgotten navigator, Luis Torres
By Simon Pratt. In primary school, I was taught that ‘Captain Cook discovered Australia’. Even if you ignore the aborigines (who walked here), that is unfortunately quite wrong. By the time Cook’s Endeavour sighted Point Hicks in 1770, the Dutch and Spanish had already discovered and mapped the great majority of the Australian coastline.What Cook…
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Sailing RaRa Part 2 North, Lake Macquarie, 4 Jan – 9 Jan 2021
By Sanna Westling S/V RaRa. In Newcastle, we looked ahead at the weather forecast for the following week and decided to go to Swansea and attempt getting into Lake Macquarie. We spoke to Marine rescue and decided to give this a try, not being ready to return to Sydney yet. The entrance out of Newcastle…
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One Leg at a Time: The Next Leg
By Kelly Nunn-Clark of S/V Sanctum. Okay where to start……. I have been wanting to update our blog, ‘onelegatatime’ almost daily but it takes time to organise photos and write. We have been so busy with work and working on the boat that there seems to be not a lot of free time. I will start…
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Chills and thrills on icy seas
by Anna Alvsdotter. High-performance sailing is what many of us aspire to. The dream is to go faster than the wind, but unless you’re on an America’s Cup AC75, or as in this story – an iceboat – the dream might not be so easily achieved. Being a Sydney sailor, maybe you mourn the loss…
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A brush with the Law
By Martin Colebrook. My Dad was a policeman. He was very strict. I grew up in a little village in the midst of farming land in Kent, UK. He was the village bobby and so I had to be a good boy at all times, which I was but was always being told off for…
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Getting to know your boat electrics
By Niclas Westling. If you’re anything like me, you want to understand the various systems on the boat. Why? Well, when things go wrong, and you’re out to sea it can be very handy to be able to do some basic troubleshooting. Also, it may give some satisfaction, and save quite a few dollars, to…
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Sydney Harbour favourite spots
by Phil Darling, eXpresso How to choose. We have the quietness and solitude (mostly) of Bantry Bay. The innercity bustle and excitement of Lavender Bay, just under the Harbour Bridge. The suburban charm of Hen and Chicken Bay. The upmarket shelter and rub-shoulders-with-the-rich of Vaucluse Bay. Or the “let’s pretend we are really a million…
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Driftwood
By Dot Theeboom. Here are some terms in common use which originated in sailing: At a loose end – unoccupied. Nautically, loose ends are unattached ones that are not doing their job. “Tying uploose ends” is used to mean finalising details of a matter as a sailor makes fast the loose ends to ensure the…
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Pittwater for the long weekend of October 2020
By Dorothy Theeboom Once again members of the Cruising Division set sail for Pittwater to spend the October long weekend or perhaps even longer. Jeremy and Kristen on Buggalugs were the trendsetters leaving Sydney on Wednesday and picking up a mooring in Morning Bay in the late afternoon.Niclas, Sanna, and Oliver on RaRa were next…
