“A Small Boat Cruising Guide to Shark Bay” provides 160 pages of valuable information to the visiting skipper, whether it be a small power boat, sail craft or combination of the two. Aimed at shallow draft vessels capable of being trailered to Shark Bay, the book contains location guides to the best anchorages and features in the Eastern Gulf, Western Gulf, Henri Freycinet Harbour and Dirk Hartog Island. A wealth of historical and geographical background is included, as well as fishing notes and tips. With tables of GPS waypoints and hand drawn mud maps of anchorages, this guide will make your next cruising holiday a breeze.

Terry and Christine Hinchliffe are Western Australian retired teachers with a passionate love for Shark Bay.
A wealth of historical and geographical background is included, as well as fishing notes and tips. With tables of GPS waypoints and hand drawn mud maps of anchorages, this guide will make your next cruising holiday a breeze. Terry and Christine Hinchliffe are Western Australian retired teachers with a passionate love for Shark Bay. Theirs is a long association that began with family camping and fishing holidays in the early 1970s and included a two year stay in Denham in the old school house. Later, they developed a love of sailing and their experiences grew to include extensive cruising throughout “The Bay” in their 7.5 metre trailer sailer “Sandpiper.” This book is born of a keen desire to share their experiences. Leon Deschamps was born beside the sea. His mother, “Tuppy” Winship, a naturalist and adventurer, fell in love with Shark Bay and its crystal calm, life filled waters and together they spent much of his childhood exploring it. She gifted him his first boat when he was six, an 11ft oak ribbed and marine ply dinghy with a 1.1hp Seagull engine. That was the genesis of many an aquatic adventure, which in his 38th year of life has seen him work and play on seine net boats, prawn trawlers, crab boats, snapper wet liners and many more. He and his wife Marielle now live full time aboard the 58ft Samson Ketch “Bold Adventure” and provides it free of charge for Australian marine science expeditions through his “Shark Ark Project” conservation initiative.
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour) ; 21 cm #220322
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