Cruising Wild: Dinghy Spart's Tasmanian Voyages

What would compel a sailor to abandon a comfortable cruising yacht in favour of a thirteen-foot dinghy? Perhaps the allure of a simpler form of adventure and the practical freedom of a trailerable boat. Maybe it's more personal: a spouse weary of the cruising life, or the chemistry between a man and a special dinghy. For Geoff Macqueen, it was all these.

From tentative beginnings in sheltered waters, his journeys escalate into a series of solo voyages that take him across Bass Strait and aro...