Alan Lucas Cruising Guides

Alan Lucas Cruising Guides Alan Lucas is an Australian yachtsman and writer of cruising guides and books relating to life at sea.

Alan and Patricia's son, Ben, at age 4 learning to row on his own for the first time. Just like children who live on a b...
21/02/2022

Alan and Patricia's son, Ben, at age 4 learning to row on his own for the first time. Just like children who live on a busy road learn traffic awareness or those on farms learn how to interact with animals, those who grow up at sea learn basic boating skills as soon as they can walk.

Even at 86 Alan can't be kept from the water. His current yacht is a lovely sailing Don Lee sloop, built in 1984.
06/02/2022

Even at 86 Alan can't be kept from the water. His current yacht is a lovely sailing Don Lee sloop, built in 1984.

Renee Tighe is a 9m ketch Alan purchased in 1989, at the time in run down condition, and spent a year lovingly restoring...
01/12/2021

Renee Tighe is a 9m ketch Alan purchased in 1989, at the time in run down condition, and spent a year lovingly restoring. She made 6 runs of the NSW coast and two to Torres Straits for book revisions before being sold in the mid 90s.

Granted these photos are a couple years old now, but even after 60 years at sea Alan still climbs the mast and freedives...
15/11/2021

Granted these photos are a couple years old now, but even after 60 years at sea Alan still climbs the mast and freedives the keel to perform maintenance. Pictured here with a makeshift bosun's chair (essentially just a length of rope with a heavy shackle securing it)

In January of 2015 Alan received the OAM (Order of Australia) for his service to print media as an author of maritime pu...
01/11/2021

In January of 2015 Alan received the OAM (Order of Australia) for his service to print media as an author of maritime publications.
It's now 60 years he has devoted to writing about his first love, sailing, doing his own surveys, soundings and photography along the Queensland and NSW coasts, as well as writing guides on maintenance and historical books of nautical trivia.
To this day his publications are the leading word on live-aboard yachting.
Available direct from his website:
www.alanlucascruisingguides.com




The SS Yongala represents one of Queensland's most appalling and mysterious maritime disasters, disappearing with all ha...
04/10/2021

The SS Yongala represents one of Queensland's most appalling and mysterious maritime disasters, disappearing with all hands in 1911.
Read the article on Alan's blog where he has started publishing articles directly and for free.
https://www.alanlucascruisingguides.com/articles

A replica of America, a 170 ton gaff schooner built in 1851, photographed by Alan in the Canary Islands in 1986. Alan i...
30/08/2021

A replica of America, a 170 ton gaff schooner built in 1851, photographed by Alan in the Canary Islands in 1986.

Alan is now publishing articles direct to his website, so read more about this remarkable vessel at www.alanlucascruisingguides.com

Alan, probably the late 60s/early 70s, in Torres Strait.
28/07/2021

Alan, probably the late 60s/early 70s, in Torres Strait.

Alan Lucas, Lizard Island, 1975
11/07/2021

Alan Lucas, Lizard Island, 1975

Cruising the Coral Coast, still one of the most important and relevant cruising guides for live aboard yachties sailing ...
13/06/2021

Cruising the Coral Coast, still one of the most important and relevant cruising guides for live aboard yachties sailing the Queensland coast. It has been a mainstay of Alan's Career for 50 years, currently in its 9th edition and available from Boat Books or direct from www.alanlucascruisingguides.com
Updates for 2021 should be released by the end of the year.

Silver Spray, 1950s in the Whitsundays. One of Alan's first true cruising vessels. From this he began his career as an a...
13/06/2021

Silver Spray, 1950s in the Whitsundays.
One of Alan's first true cruising vessels. From this he began his career as an author, always doing his own surveying and photography.

On the stern of Tientos in Athens, Greece, 1983, Alan with Patricia, Ben, William and ships cat Redbread. Tientos saw th...
13/05/2021

On the stern of Tientos in Athens, Greece, 1983, Alan with Patricia, Ben, William and ships cat Redbread. Tientos saw the family cruise the Mediterranean for 3 years between '83 and the end of '85.

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