Sailing Around Tasmania: Follow the Guide!
After sharing their experiences of New Zealand with us in MW196, the crew of Cat’leya, a Lagoon 52, are now heading for Tasmania and a circumnavigation of the island under sail. They are following in the footsteps of the explorers and navigators who came before them, mindful of the rich history of the places they visit.
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Publié le
26/05/2025
Par
Jean-Pierre Schiavi
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202
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Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, the first European to set foot on Tasmania in 1642, thought he had discovered an uncharted part of continental Australia. He was wrong, as the British George Bass and Matthew Flindlers proved in 1778, when they circumnavigated Tasmania for the first time: it is an island, and we intended to sail around it too! The waters of the South Pacific, close to the Roaring Forties, are not usually on the agenda of a round-the-world voyage under sail, but Covid offered us the opportunity to discover some seldom-visited places. With the help of La Niña, the southern latitudes o…
