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Day 0 Sailing Trip
I flew into Hamilton island via Jetstar Airlines and the minute I hit the tarmac I felt the tropical heat. However I opted to walk the kilometre or so from the airport into the yacht marina over a...
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Day 1 Sailing Trip - Hamilton Island to Mackay Part 1
Saw my first whale today. The photo is not fantastic but I’ll include it anyway. I hope to get some better ones laterWe got under way around 10am after a busy morning. I got up at around 6:30 and...
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Day 1 Sailing Trip- Hamilton Island to Mackay Part 2
It took all day but it finally happened. It seemed as if every time I took the camera down below decks whales and dolphins came by and whenever I brought it up they didn’t. And then just before sunset...
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Day 3 and 4 Sailing Trip Mackay to Yeppoon
The marina at Mackay was nice and we were able to get a excellent coffee in the morning after negotiating all the locked gates into and out of the facility without a key.The plan was to sail to Percy...
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Days 4, 5 and 6 Sailing Trip Yeppoon to Mooloolaba
We spent 56 odd hours on this leg on KioniThe wind was too strong to leave Yeppoon as scheduled so we had an extra 12 hours layover waiting for the tide so we could leave the marina. We walked around,...
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Day 7 Sailing Trip Mooloolaba to Southport
My last day sailing on Kioni was spent mostly not sailing. The wind was 5-9 knots and most of the time we motored on this leg. I did a lot of helm work while others caught up on sleep or reading. I...
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Final sailing post - the voyage details
This will be my last article about the sailing trip I just went on in – sailing on the yacht Kioni.Of course navigation was a huge part of what we were doing. As this was the skippers 16th trip down...
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Day 0 Sailing Trip
I flew into Hamilton island via Jetstar Airlines and the minute I hit the tarmac I felt the tropical heat. However I opted to walk the kilometre or so from the airport into the yacht marina over a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Day 1 Sailing Trip - Hamilton Island to Mackay Part 1
Saw my first whale today. The photo is not fantastic but I’ll include it anyway. I hope to get some better ones laterWe got under way around 10am after a busy morning. I got up at around 6:30 and...
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Day 1 Sailing Trip- Hamilton Island to Mackay Part 2
It took all day but it finally happened. It seemed as if every time I took the camera down below decks whales and dolphins came by and whenever I brought it up they didn’t. And then just before sunset...
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Day 3 and 4 Sailing Trip Mackay to Yeppoon
The marina at Mackay was nice and we were able to get a excellent coffee in the morning after negotiating all the locked gates into and out of the facility without a key.The plan was to sail to Percy...
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Days 4, 5 and 6 Sailing Trip Yeppoon to Mooloolaba
We spent 56 odd hours on this leg on KioniThe wind was too strong to leave Yeppoon as scheduled so we had an extra 12 hours layover waiting for the tide so we could leave the marina. We walked around,...
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Day 7 Sailing Trip Mooloolaba to Southport
My last day sailing on Kioni was spent mostly not sailing. The wind was 5-9 knots and most of the time we motored on this leg. I did a lot of helm work while others caught up on sleep or reading. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Final sailing post - the voyage details
This will be my last article about the sailing trip I just went on in – sailing on the yacht Kioni.Of course navigation was a huge part of what we were doing. As this was the skippers 16th trip down...
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