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P.28 Horizons 2012/07-08 | Perth to Bali Perth to Bali on Jungle Jane Words and photos by ABC member David Harris Part one of a two-part instalment recounting a yachting journey from Western Australia to Hong Kong.
P.29 Opposite Page: The desert meets the sea: Jungle Jane at Shark Bay, Cape Peron, Western Australia Top Left: Jungle Jane at the Lancelin, WA jetty. One cannot imagine a place less like Hong Kong! Top Right: Dirk Hartog Island’s outermost point, Shark Bay Bottom: The Ningaloo Reef, comparable with the Great Barrier Reef I have always admired the Western Australian-designed crayfishing boats. These boats operate in very tough conditions off the southern WA coast. They need to be fast, strong and seaworthy to enable the fishermen to pull in their pots early and get home by the time the sea breeze fills in. In Perth, this ‘breeze,’ called the Fremantle Doctor, is caused by the massive daily transfer of air between the Indian Ocean and the Western Australian desert. North of Perth, WA, it’s not uncommon for the Fremantle Doctor to come in at over 30 knots, day after day, during the summer fishing season. So Western Australia is where my wife and I went to find our first motor boat. After four months of investigation, we secured the vessel Jungle Jane, a West Coast 65. For 20 years, she had been fishing out of Lancelin, a small fishing town between sea and dunes, 130 km north of Perth. Whilst a bit worse for wear from a cosmetic point of view, she had a new low-hours Caterpillar V12 1,000 h.p. engine, was structurally very sound, and had a huge cockpit for entertaining. She was capable of cruising at 18 knots, with a top speed of 23 knots. We left Fremantle, Perth’s harbour, at the end of March in perfect weather for the day trip north to Lancelin. The three crew were Ed Bell, who will look after the boat for me in Hong Kong, Mac Greer, an old South Australian friend, and myself. After loading stores, spares and fuel (5,000 litres in total, giving a range of 1,400nm) we set off for Geraldton, WA, 150 miles north. Ray Dunstan, the seller of the boat, came along for the first leg. We
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