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HERTZ SOUND NOW AT AMI

AMI Sales has partnered with Australian importer and electronics specialist TDJ to bring audio brand Hertz Marine Audio to Australia’s marine and RV market Based in Italy and established in 1998, Hertz Marine range of speakers, amplifiers, receivers and accessories are installed on boats in over 60 countries and hold numerous awards for quality product design.

Hertz Marine audio equipment is dust, ultra-violet, humidity, corrosion and vibration resistant and its IP ratings offer high levels of protection, perfect in ensuring a long lasting product with great performance, all designed to perform in demanding marine environments.

The complete marine range is the audio solution for jet skis and wake boats through to yachts and houseboats. The Hertz Marine range is expanding, with new release models of source units, amplifiers and speakers anticipated to arrive during 2020, offering customers an even greater range of audio options.

www.amisales.com.au/hertz

FROM NEW YORK TO YAMBA

What if the stars were both above and below you? What if behind you stretched an iridescent green trail through the cosmos? What if you weren’t in space but had just crossed the equator at midnight, and the Galapagos Islands lay thirty miles ahead?

The book ‘Log of the Lone Eagle’ is an epic seafaring journey spanning 14,000 nautical miles, fifteen countries, dozens of islands and hundreds of anchorages by Robert Bugge aboard the 36’ sailboat Lone Eagle. It began in Washington, DC, a month after an up-close and personal encounter with 911 and concluded two years later in Australia.

It is about idyllic tropical paradises, gin-clear water, storm-tossed nights, and all the things that are the cruising lifestyle. But what it is really about is passage making: long-distance passage making to remote, idyllic places where few cruisers venture, but where you will be right in the cockpit, for the joy, the excitement, the terror, the discovery and the majesty of the world’s oceans.

But this story is also about life happening when you are making other plans and reaching a point where you have

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