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MYSAILING.COM.AU WHATDIY TO SURVEY: CHECK PRACTICAL Cruising life How to stretch the dollars How good is trailer sailing? FLOTILLA SAILING: Greece in company Over the top Cruise to Cape York JULY 2018 315 new348 new388 new418 455 505 new548 575 588 675 www.hanseyachts.com Australia | Phone: (02) 9979 1709 New Zealand | Ph: 09 413 9465 [email protected] | www.windcrafthanse.com [email protected] | www.windcraft.co.nz 57 44 Cruising Helmsman 2018 July 40 3 67 CONTENTS PRACTICAL DESTINATION 22 SYNCHRONISED CONTROL 10 CROC ON A ROCK AT THE TOP Night vision is important and our Cape York is a long way away but a lot electrical expert provides a method of easier to get to by yacht than by car, once changing your cabin lights from white there the facilities ensure it is not as to red at the flick of a switch. remote as first thought. 26 DO YOUR OWN SURVEY 16 LIVING IT UP LIVING SMALL Looking at buying a yacht? Before you ‘Take it anywhere’ is the philosophy spend your money on a professional behind trailer sailing and this family have survey, why not carry out these checks taken full advantage, but why is their and tests yourself first. yacht called Small Hotel? 40 FLOTILLA SAILING 54 USING SERENITY TO GET TO BARNABY 50 If you want an inexpensive and safe way Selling your first yacht can sometimes be to see some of the Greek Islands then difficult, but this couple found the change sailing in company with an experienced an obvious one. lead yacht is a good option. DEPARTMENTS 57 READY TO GO 04 FROM THE HELM 44 ALL HAIL THE CLASSIC Is flying to Florida to buy a yacht a sensible 06 WATERFRONT This Tohatsu outboard is still a kicker thing to do? This couple finds out the answer. 08 LETTERS when it comes to having a reliable 48 IDEAS LOCKER outboard for your yacht tender. 67 RULES OF THE ROAD 50 ESSENTIAL KIT Check the specs. Hopefully learning the rules at sea is as 72 CLASSIFIEDS much fun as Suzy Cook makes it out to be. 60 BUDGET SAILING DOLLAR STRETCHERS 71 SAILING IS MORE THAN SAILING MYSAILING.COM.AU WHATDIY TO SURVEY: CHECK Sailing is not the expensive enterprise In reflective mood, sailing can take you to many would believe, to make it even more places than just destinations on sea more affordable follow these tips. or land. PRACTICAL Cruising life 10 How to stretch the dollars How good is trailer sailing? FLOTILLA SAILING: Greece in company JULY 2018 $8.95 (inc. GST) Over the top 07 Cruise to Cape York 9 770812 408004 ON THE COVER Catamaran sailing at its best during the Tahiti Pearl Regatta. Cruising Helmsman Cruising Helmsman 2018 July 4 How ironic PHIL ROSS – EDITOR AS THE editor of this fine magazine I decided on two philosophies that assists to decide what articles to publish and what activities to support. I may have already written about them before: get bums on yachts and get yachts out there. FROM THE HELM THE FROM The first one may be seen to be self-serving, the more people we get out sailing the more likely they will purchase the magazine! Maybe so but, like all activities, sailing needs numbers to retain influence. Influence in the corridors of power is a sad necessity so that our needs are serviced and we are not overtaken In a society there is only so much money going around by other activities that are detrimental to cruising. so the only way to introduce more money is to introduce But, therein lies another anomaly. One of the main more people. Then the question becomes: how many? reasons we all love to go cruising is because we can get This, I feel, is the same problem we have in our away from it all. The last thing we really want is our sailing society. waters crowded with people on boats. Oh the irony! We are seeing some fantastic yachts coming onto the As a media organisation we regularly ask various market at prices and full of options, never before seen. state ministers of maritime services, whoever it might I am unaware of the number of yachts being sold but I be at the time, about legislating for a national yacht think it has remained on a pretty steady climb over the registration to cut down on costs and bureaucratic decades. Steady growth, no problem there. administrivia. The answer we usually get is different But what do we see each year at boat shows around versions of: ‘it will never happen as each state will not the country? More and more attention given to give up the revenue it receives.’ So we need numbers every other watersport except sailing. The amount of people to get sailing so we can use the numbers to of yachts floating in Darling Harbour for the Sydney pressure the governments, such is democracy. International Boat Show appears to me to be reducing The double irony is, of course, the more numbers rise every year; noticeable even in the short time I have on the water the more monies the governments receive; been editor of Cruising Helmsman. making it more important not to hand the revenue- Our numbers may be increasing but, relative to raising mechanism over to a national body. other sports, it is diminishing in importance and, So which is the best way to go? Individual sailors, therefore, influence. naturally, would like to see numbers kept low to enhance Moorings in far-flung anchorages, ghost boats our sailing experience; but then, in all good faith, they sinking at moorings, keeping rangers on the water, cannot then complain about a lack of facilities at the construction of more marinas and many other services places they visit. We all do currently complain of course, provided by our governments are not cheap. We can be it makes for great sundowner conversation! thankful that a lot of the other watersports also need Organisations however, like sailing’s governing body some of these and therefore they are funded to continue. Australian Sailing, want more people sailing so they can But those services that only yachting requires may be run a well-funded, more efficient organisation for the increasingly sidelined if we do not keep up our presence benefit of all. Numbers equate to power and influence. in the water and in the lobbying for the ballot box. In a way it is the same problems modern societies As I said, it is ironic that for us to enjoy our peaceful find themselves struggling with. All economists existence we may need to make a stand and push for know that economies that do not encourage growth our voice to be heard and respected. will die. They do not stagnate, they atrophy; slowly What do you think? ≈ dying off as the pool of money for goods and services dwindles. How do you grow? Throw money into the pot? Nope. You can pull various economic levers but the only real way to grow is to encourage more people to spend. EDITOR Phil Ross (02) 9213 8253 [email protected] PUBLISHER Mike Ford (02) 9213 8262 Any place, any time! 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