Sailing and Cruising
Once you have learned to sail with Club Sail, you have the entire South Pacific available for your cruising grounds .
The Melanesian islands, like the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu are the closest to Australia. You can reach most of these in only a week's sail from some part of the east coast of Australia. Get a cruising guide to vanuatu or a cruising guide to new caledonia ( Guide Nautique Nouvelle Caledonie) before you go. These CD based guides are the best way to get marine charts of vanuatu and marine charts of new caledonia.
The Polynesian islands are further away but, by stopping at the Melaneasian islands first, the passages are always less than a week. New Caledonia is just the first step in a cruise to Samoa while PNG leads to the Micronesian islands of Palau. The goal, of course, of all this cruising is to expand your horizons and expectations to match your dreams.
Rather than face a long passage and possible dangers, you can charter a yacht in the place you would like to visit. Club Sail, offers an excellent range of recreational sailing courses. With only a few days training you can become a good crew member. Embark on a two to three week sailing school programme. to become an offshore skipper qualified to charter a yacht anywhere in the world. In the process, you will experience some great adventure cruising along the Australian coastline and enjoy day cruises in Pittwater and Broken Bay - one of Australia's best cruising grounds.
Another way to cruise the south Pacific, is to travel in luxury surroundings with great food, and a very respectable salary as deckhand, steward or stewardess, cook, or first mate, or even the captain of a Superyacht. The Superyacht Crew Academy, based in Sydney Australia can provide you with the training you need. One of the courses you'll need is stcw95, which is required for all crew on superyachts - even private ones. You can start your superyacht training with no qualifications at all with Superyacht Crew Academy's Fastrack programs. In one concentrated training semester you can go from zero experience to a qualified crew position or even all the way to a captain's qualification. If you already have sailing qualifications you can get qualified as crew or captain in a much shorter course. Once you are qualified, the Superyacht Crew Academy will help you in finding a position on a superyacht.
If you go cruising you'll need information about the places you intend to visit whether it is Pittwater, Vanuatu, or New Caledonia The best guides are the CD-ROM based Rocket Guides with satellite and aerial images of the anchorages. These are produced by Tellus Consultants.
They also create a general vanuatu tourism guide and new caledonia tourism of interest to cruisers planning to visit these exotic countries.
You'll also need to know what the weather is going to be like whenever you go sailing. If you sail when the weather is nice you'll always have a good trip. The secret is picking the best time to go and going when the time is right. However, if you go with a captained yacht charter, the captain takes care of all the details leaving you and your family free to enjoy the adventure. New Caledonia yacht charter is one of the best values for visiting the vast lagoon of new caledonia.
If you visit vanuatu aboard a yacht Yachting World, will be your home base in Port Vila for fuel, internet services, a sea wall marina and moorings.
Don't forget that cruising requires a certain mind set and awareness, you need something to do, like the sailers of old who used to do scrimshaw and etchings at sea. So prepare for your voyage to the South Pacific Islands by first getting the correct training, and then the best guidance you can find.
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