Boats No Longer Operating In The Whitsundays

Updated Sun 30 Jun 2024

Temporarily or officially retired from the overnight chartering market:

The Card - washed up onto rocks after her mooring broke at South Molle, June 2012
Pacific Star - washed up onto rocks after mooring broke during a northerly storm, March 2012
Whitsunday Magic - sadly lost in an accident in September 2011
Venus - Sunk on the Airlie Rock wall during a storm
Apollo III - retired
Defender - retired
Otella- retired
Southern Cloud- left the Whitsundays
Alamari- retired gone to Fiji as a hospital ship
On location- left the Whitsundays
Reefjet - been purchased by a mining company to work in Western Australia, 2011
Windjammer - left for an extended World cruise, 2011
Ron of Argyll - retired, but still in the Whitsundays
Jade - taken by a cyclone storm surge whilst on anchor, 2010
Anaconda II - taken by a cyclone storm surge whilst on anchor, 2010
Romance - lost on a storm in 2009
Tallarook 5 - retired
Gypsy - retired
Whitsunday Bliss- retired
Tornado - retired
White Bird - retired
Mantaray - retired
Alexander Stewart - retired gone South
Pacific Sunrise - very popular upmarket vessel, sold and left the area in 2013
Descarada - no longer operates shared sailing charters, private charters only commencing from Brisbane, Melbourne or Sydney
Pride of Airlie- retired when Daydream was sold
Kora - large catamaran retired when Daydream was sold
Iceberg - retired from commercial tours in 2016, currently residing in the Gold Coast
Silent Night - sadly sunk during Cyclone Debbie in 2017
Wings1- retired to go cruising
Boomerang- Caught fire- retired
Samurai- retired gone north
Ragamuffin - retired
Ise Pearl - retired to go cruising
Anaconda III - renamed Summer Jo
Southern Cross- retired gone north
Sv Whitehaven- retired awaiting renovation

Please note: Sailing-Whitsundays attempts to keep this article up-to-date at all times.

Most of the information above has come from our CEO Keith Roberts. Keith has lived an worked in the Whitsundays 1986 and is a wealth of information about our industry.

Other contributors include Jim Theraux the owner of Solway Lass and Adrian Bram the current president of The Whitsunday Charter Boat Association.

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