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 around Tasmania-undertakings that, after careful consideration, he deems to be 'on the right side of foolishness'.

Cruising Wild chronicles the challenges of wilderness 'dinghy cruising'. But beyond the capsizes, the rogue waves, the strandings, and the unfriendly coastlines-it is, above all, a story about the simple joy of taking a pretty little boat to sea.