Sailing and Cruising the South Pacific
There are 22 Pacific Island countries, hundreds of islands, thousands of anchorages you can visit on your vacation in the South Pacific. All the Islands in the South Pacific have their own character, their own lifestyle, their special culture. You could visit the Melanesian islands, and Cruise the Solomon Islands, go cruising in Papua New Guinea, cruising Fiji, cruising New Caledonia, cruising Vanuatu or head for the Polynesian islands and go cruising Samoa or go for the Micronesian islands cruising Palau, or, easiest off go cruising Australia, or any other of the 22 South Pacific island nations.
Cruising the South Pacific is a way to experience the magic of the sea and expand your personal thread of awareness and expectations to fit the actuality of the islands.
You can cruise the South Pacific aboard your own yacht, you could yacht charter in Australia to Learn about yachting and or charter a yacht where you intend to cruise and save yourself the time and expense of a lengthy passage. To do this, of course, you will need some sailing courses. Club Sail, in Sydney Australia, offers an excellent range of recreational sailing courses to teach you everything you need to know from being a good sailing crew member to being an inshore skipper or the offshore skipper course will get you qualified to bareboat yacht charter anywhere in the world. This can include some great adventure cruising along the Australian coastline as well as day training cruises in Pittwater and Broken Bay. Cruising Broken Bay Australia is not to be missed as a great adventure experience in Sydney Australia. Club Sail is Australia's best known sailing schools.
You can cruise the south Pacific and earn money at the same time as the captain or crew on a magnificent superyacht. Not only would you get to travel in luxury surroundings with great food, you would be paid, too. You could be a superyacht deckhand, a steward or superyacht stewardess, a cook, or first mate, or the captain. It all depends on your training and qualifications. The best place to get your training is at Club Sail's Superyacht Crew Academy, based in Sydney Australia. You will need to take a stcw95 course , which is now required for all crew on superyachts - even private ones. You'll learn basic but necessary fire fighting and other skills. You can start out with no qualifications at all with Superyacht Crew Academy's Fastrack programs. If you take the fastrack professional crew course, you can, in one concentrated training semester, go from zero experience to a qualified superyacht crew position or even all the way to a superyacht captain position qualification. If you already have some sailing qualifications you can get qualified as superyacht crew member or superyacht captain posting in a much shorter course. Once you are qualified, the Superyacht Crew Academy will help you in finding a superyacht position.
If you go cruising as a professional, on your own yacht, or if you charter in vanuatu, or bareboat charter anywhere in the world, you'll need information about the places you go. For example, if you were going to take a sailing course in Australia from Club Sail, you would get the cruising Broken Bay nautical guide so you would know all about the Pittwater and Broken Bay sailing grounds. There is a terrific CD-ROM based cruising guide to vanuatu, with satellite and vanuatu aerial images of 140 anchorages covering every Vanuatu island. A cruising guide for New Caledonia is now in production.
There are general tourism guides of interest to cruisers planning to visit an exotic country, such as the tourism guide to vanuatu
You'll also need to know what the cruising 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. This is called finding the right weather window for sailing. 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.
If you visit vanuatu aboard a yacht of any description you'll certainly visit Yachting World vanuatu , they provide diesel fuel for vanuatu yachts , internet vanuatu services, a sea wall marina vanuatu and moorings vanuatu for yachts from all over the world.
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. |
