Category: Cruising destinations

  • Easter cruise to Shell Harbour 2022

    Easter cruise to Shell Harbour 2022

    Dallas & Selina O’Brien (video by Niclas/Sanna) Four boats made their way from Middle Harbour to Shell Harbour’s new marina complex for our Easter Cruise this year. With absolutely gorgeous weather, Argenta, Eternity, Ra Ra & Kai Rani spent the first evening anchored in Botany Bay at a location called Frenchmans Cove, before an 0800…

  • Southern adventures on Sanctum

    Southern adventures on Sanctum

    by Kristin Kool-Clarke. When Kelly and Evan invited Jeremy and me to help them bring Sanctum back to MHYC from Hobart, I have to admit that I was apprehensive. I have never done an overnight passage, let alone a 60-hour passage across Bass Strait! The fact that Jeremy had done this trip way back in…

  • Sailing RaRa Part 2 North, Lake Macquarie, 4 Jan – 9 Jan 2021

    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…

  • One Leg at a Time: The Next Leg

    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…

  • Sydney Harbour favourite spots

    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…