Tanimbar Experience

Delma had never really shown much inclination to sail in a cruising yacht outside the confines of Darwin Harbour. She viewed sailing out there with something akin to horror. So why did she suddenly suggest sailing across the Arafura Sea to a remote group of islands in the far-eastern region of Indonesia?

This is a story by the skipper of an eight-tonne, thirty-foot cruising yacht, describing an ope...