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Yet more in the old farts being really stupid - a ****ty old steelie that has been a pain in the arse for locals ends up on the beach. The ****ty old boats are getting reduced in numbers but there are still many more to go

www.facebook.com/dean.deland/posts/pfbid02TZrEU358kkZp1UQvnzRhLUZa6vptwiRDKRzK2J2hiki9wFCCEDpgxLztm4x2otzcl

I don't know your boat Cam and what is a GS? A great skiff, a good sailor, a Grand Soleil?
We went in December/Jan for two years and left our boat there over the rest of the season. I hear March is the gun time to go. But as I love bushwalking almost as much as sailing, Tassie is great with a camper and way too much of a super tease by boat. But I reckon you have to be very flexible with how you plan when driving. We try not to book anything and mooch around depending on the weather - driving from one coast to the other over a couple of days is very easy and allows you to get out of the bad weather - whereas - on the boat you just gotta take it. So we have had great times since we left the boat and took the camper. We check Windy and basically plan around the rain a few days out. Tassie is so small that this is absolutley achievable. It means you can't do the big walks like the Overland track easily as these require booking months out. But you can do all the side walks - on the Overland track we did Pine Valley which we didn't do when we did the Overland, then there is all the stuff around Cradle, same with the 3 capes - we did almost all of it using our tent and great camping sites and booked the night before. On a boat, you may be able to walk some of Freycinet and Schouten and do bits of the Three Capes walk and climb Mt Wellington but you can't do Mt Field, Cradle, Haartz, or anything else.

Of course if bushwalking is not your thing then a boat could be great - I just could not take any more of never getting to the bush and having to sit on the boat. Socially it is nothing like Keppel or Airlie, the locals are bringing out their own friends and don't need to meet you but we did meet a few lovely people in Kettering.

I think I have already said it on Seabreeze but I am probably the only bloke who would avoid Tassie altogether. We found it difficult to relax with all the weather changes and sadly not very gregarious. So our trip was a let down. We went a long way to get two wonderful days with wildlife.

My main gripe with Tassie is that it is not really a place where a boat gets you extra access to anywhere barring Port Davey. Everywhere we went there was already some bloke in a van on shore to talk to. That is fine for them, but they could then go to Mt Field, or to Mt Wellington, or Cradle or anywhere inland. We were tied to the boat and could never get inland properly. I still have to go back to the Haartz mountains which border the Dentrecasteu. I watched them for weeks as we sailed around and never could climb them. Of course we could put the boat on a mooring or marina and hire a car. We did that once and had heaps of fun - much more than if we stayed with the boat. Tassie's jewells are accessible to anyone with a car - a boat reduces access to them.

Whereas in Queensland - if you aint got a boat you got nothing. It starts at Southport and a boat allows access to Queenslands jewells with great offshore islands and the reef. I would go crazy visiting Queensland without my boat. We have spent a year (when you add up all the trips) just mooching around the Whitsundays, and can easily spend 10 days at a time on islands like Keppel and Hinchinbrook. So my advice is sail Queensland and take the campervan (and maybe some kayaks on top) to Tassie.
cheers
Phil

Yet another of the - "grey haired old man lets his boat on the shore" story.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/byron-community-helps-beached-boatie/106670510

I mean who anchors off Byron and goes ashore in an onshore breeze?How is that even concievable? Anchoring off a famous surf break in an onshore wind is never a seamanlike thing to do. People like this give us a bad name. I have another year or two before I head off again. By that time they will probaby have legislated to stop 60s and over being allowed offshore on their own. So thanks a lot.

Sad story of people dying when assisting a yacht near Ballina. Large swells and a yacht in distress needing assistance. It is tragic when volunteers lose their lives assisting us. www.9news.com.au/national/ballina-boating-accident-three-dead-search-under-way-after-northern-nsw-boating-tragedy/974d7967-1138-4fdb-8b99-f8bc374c4a43

Hello comrades,

The flakes on the deck near the anchor winch tell me that I need new chain - 8mm short link galvanised. Has anyone got some chain they found really good? I would like to buy from someone other than Whitworths as they can only deliver 31 metre lengths in 8mm and I would like to get 40 - 50 m for the next cruise. I won't do stainless, gal only.