Circumnavigating the Australian Coastline

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The coastline is almost 40,000 km long with a variety of scenery and conditions hard to match anywhere in the world. Exotic coastal resorts, wilderness coastlines and unparalleled tidal phenomena are among the features of a coastline that is alternately densely populated and desolately barren.
Sailing and navigating this coastline is one of the most exhilarating and g exercises for any small craft. It is also say the uninhabited stretches test the skills of the navigator. Many, of the inshore areas ate inadequately surveyed; many not surveyed at all.
Added to these problems are extremes of climate and tides. In the north, between November and March, the threat of the cyclone lurks constantly in the thick monsoonal air. In the winter months, the mountainous seas are driven gales of the Roaring Forties, boiling around the southern coastline of Tasmania with white water fury. Phenomenal tide races in a number of areas sweep away even the most powerful mall crafts like toys caught in a stormwater drain. Yet despite these hazardous navigational conditions, circumnavigating Australia's coastline is quite within the scope of egierienced offshore sailors in seaworthy ocean-going yachts.
In 1802, Matthew Flinders took ten months to circumnavigate Australia in a leaky bucket of a ship with no aids and virtually without charts. Modern, well-equipped yachts with electronic navigation aide, radio weather; reports, tidal predictions and, for the most part, well-surveyed charts, can do it safely and without any undue
This is the first book of two detailing navigation around coastline. In this volume the coastal passages are described in detail with recommended courses. The guidance to uninitiated navigators on unfamiliar stretches of coastline is matched advice on weather, tides and other conditions. The second volume will provide details of the ports and major anchorages annul the continental coastline.