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Atlantic Motor Yachts: No Shortcuts

Atlantic Motor Yachts: No Shortcuts

In a bold double-dare, two yacht owners decided Australia needed a better dealership. The results silenced the critics and have everyone else talking. Ron Winestock and Graeme Skerritt never set out to be luxury yacht dealers. But when they each bought their own Azimut luxury yachts over five years ago, they saw a definite need […]

Expediton ship review: Kapitan Khlebnikov

Expediton ship review: Kapitan Khlebnikov

Voyage beyond Arctic ice into a land of legend aboard the world’s most famous passenger-carrying icebreaker, the Kapitan Khlebnikov. Words Roderick Eime. The fabled Arctic silence is shattered by spine-chilling, rapid-fire cracks as the metre-thick sea ice disappears beneath the ravenous hull. With each hungry lunge forward, the I/B Kapitan Khlebnikov consumes another “mouthful” of […]

A Princess in the Wild

A Princess in the Wild

Our Princess Makes Her International Debut A true-blue Aussie Princess hitches up her breeches and heads north to the seldom explored waters of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Sea. Words and Pictures by Roderick Eime A sea so blue and clear lay beneath the bow that the ripples in the sand, metres below, were […]

Deception Island: Steamed Ice and Frosted Lava

Deception Island: Steamed Ice and Frosted Lava

By its very name, Deception Island conjures up vivid images of bleak and foreboding shores swathed in slowly swirling mist and gloomy grey cliffs. Pretty close actually. The approach to Deception Island is almost certainly the key to its name. As we neared its insanely steep and craggy cliffs populated by thousands of screeching, wheeling […]