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    Jul 11, 2019 5 minutes

    “It doesn’t matter where you choose, you can’t go wrong in Australia. There are so many wonderful cruising grounds,” says Hank Rosendal, a Dutch-Australian sailor. His Amel 53 Tempest is currently moored in Albany, West-Australia. And he’s right: you could sail a lifetime around Australian shores and still not see everything.

    So for a foreign cruiser there is a difficult choice: how much time do you want to spend in Australia and what can you do and see?

    Classically, on a trip around the world, cruisers sail from the islands of the South Pacific to New Zealand for the cyclone season: a tough crossing but with the rich rewards of New Zealand hospitality and boat maintenance facilities.

    From New Zealand many go back north to Vanuatu or New Caledonia and then on to the Indian Ocean. For those a

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