Cruising Helmsman – June 2017

cockpit seating in deference to my ageing back, installed an electric f lushing head, solar panels and headsail furler and renam ...

my first attempt to hoist the sails until the following day. It was while beachcombing on Hinchinbrook Island that I first had t ...

original junk rig. Port Douglas was also the departure point for several delightful day-sails to picture postcard Low Isles, inc ...

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AMEL 50 MOVES TO SLOOP RIG Amel will launch its 50-footer at the September Cannes Yachting Festival. This model will be a depart ...

DECKVEST UPDATES FOR 2017 Spinlock's Deckvest Lite, has been given a cleaner, contemporary look for 2017. Plus its lastest model ...

46 Cruising Helmsman June 2017 ESSENTIAL KIT CRUISING SAIL TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES As with most things in life, choosing new cruisin ...

ON SHORE STYLE FROM SPERRY Sperry's Dockyard Chukka shoe is designed to combine maritime function with urban style. A classic de ...

WHEN my partner Simon and I decided to live on Ebb Tide, a Gemini catamaran, I had no idea what life might offer four years late ...

Following are some of our favourite places to visit and swim. At Hinchinbrook Island there is a pretty waterfall a short walk fr ...

Snorkelling with Moorish Idols and other reef delights and imagining that the apparent curiosity ref lects one’s own, rather tha ...

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MODERN chartplotters are waterproof and daylight viewable, so most new wheel-steered yachts have one mounted at the steering ped ...

53 http://www.mysailing.com.au LEFT: Electronics flush mounted at the helm are great if you’re steering, but can’t be seen from ...

54 Cruising Helmsman June 2017 ABOVE: Hollow axle to allow cables routed above the headlining to pass through. RIGHT: Mk.3 mount ...

reverted to using a VHF radio mounted in the cabin for routine monitoring of channel 16. The extension cockpit speaker for this ...

56 Cruising Helmsman June 2017 The exposed f lexible cable loom can be tidied using a fabric cover. LIGHTNING Those exposed over ...

bolting the equipment brackets to a piece of black, 12mm thick HDPE plastic with a pivot hole that is a close fit around the hol ...

58 Underwater photography Cruising Helmsman June 2017 IT IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT, JUST SOME SIMPLE TIPS TO GET YOU STARTED. WHEN y ...

59 http://www.mysailing.com.au Corals and fish stand out against the blue ocean at Fitzroy Reef. ...