Boats No Longer Operating In The Whitsundays
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.
Sailing Whitsundays: keeping up-to-date at all times
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