This section is new and therefore evolving.  Its purpose is to provide those cruisers following in our wake with some more cruiser-specific information - stuff that casual readers of this site would not be as interested in.

Because of the interest this section has generated, we've decided to expand it and organize it better.  We moved our Cruising Recipes and Provisioning pages here from Sue's area so we currently have 4 sections, with a handful of pages under each:

The Australian Cruising and Indonesian Cruising pages contain detailed descriptions of virtually every anchorage we visited in those countries, with Lat/Lon positions, anchoring depths, and photos of the anchorages and/or their approaches.

MaxSea Layer Files:
For those cruisers using the MaxSea Electronic Navigation program from I&M (probably the most widely used electronic navigation program among world-cruising boats) we've now posted some MaxSea "Layer" (.ptf) files.  MaxSea can display these Layer files as a transparent overlay on top of your existing charts and then remove them with just the click of a mouse.  The charts themselves are never changed.  "Track" files show safe boat tracks, while "Mark" files have comments on the charts (moorings, misplaced reefs or navigational aids, GPS corrections, etc.).

To download these files, create a MaxSea folder under your "My Documents" folder and save the files there.  To use them in MaxSea, go to File, Open, go to the MaxSea folder you just created, and open the file you just downloaded.  If you're looking at the area, you should immediately see the additional information.  Please note that the boats that made these tracks only draw 4' (1.5m), and that electronic navigational aids should not be depended on completely.

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