Newsletters

Newsletters

The Magnum Yacht Association has been producing quality newsletters for more than 20 years. The newsletters ar full of articles, general boating information, social functions and sailing events.  We encourage articles from all our members.  If you would like to contribute in any way please Contact the Newsletter editor via the Contacts pageWe are scanning in old newsletters going way back to the early 90's! It will take a while but there will be some interesting reading.

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Newsletter Index


2023 December

Winter Dinner

Christmas BBQ

Out on Business

Front Hatch Shade Protection

Stanchion Upgrade Project

Back from the Dark Side

Whitsundays Cruise (1, 2 & 3)

Ku Ring Gai Chase N.P. Cruise

Magnum Brochure

2022 December

Winter Lunch

Queenscliff Music Festival

Xmas BBQ

New Cushion Covers

Bay to Bay Race & Fraser Island Cruise

Cruising Port Phillip Bay

Easter at The Lakes

2021 December

End of Year BBQ

Boat Moulds

Internal Refurbishment

Mast Raising

Towing Calculations

Prop Walk

2020 November

Electrical diagram

Tohatsu with Electric Tilt

Electric Bombay Doors

Servicing inflatable PFDs

Hydrastar fixed

Changes to CBH rating

Cruising Sydney Harbour

Poems By Ian Pritchard

2019 July

Goulburn River

Xmas BBQ and AGM

Keel Hydraulics rebuild

No key - start outboard

Tiller Control

Carbon Monoxide

Cruising the Gold Coast

2018 July

Easter at The Lakes

Winter Dinner

Keel Hydraulics

Engine & trailer maintenance

Around The Bay (AKA Refuge Cove) Cruise

Coffin Bay & Port Lincoln Cruise

2017 July

Hawkesbury Cruise

Easter at The Lakes

Refuge Cove Cruise

Goulburn River Cruise

Keel Workaround

My Magnum Journey

Jervis Bay on Champagne

Voyage on the Enterprize

Sydney Harbour for New Year

Port Phillip Cruise

2016 December

Winter Dinner

Season Opening Cruise

Queenscliff Music Festival

Xmas BBQ & AGM

New Member Profile: Champagne Charlie #58

Ignorance is Not Always Bliss

Have You Considered AIS?

Mast Raising

Trailer Keel Support

Keel Dramas

A Short History of Free Spirit

Aargh !!

2016 June

Tassie Cruise

Easter at The Lakes

Refuge Cove cruise

Goulburn River Cruise

Fire risks

Rig Tuning

Tasmania East Coast Cruise

Walking in Tasmania

Sailing in New Zealand

Bass Strait on KathleenB


2015 December

Winter Dinner

Season Opening

Queenscliff Music Festival

Christmas BBQ & AGM

Emergency Keel Lift

Window Replacement

Sea Water Galley Pump

Rig Tuning

Trailer Guides

Book library

Lake Macquarie Cruise 

Murray Cruise

Whitsundays Cruise

2015 June

Easter at the Lakes

AGM

Refuge Cove Cruise

Goulburn River Cruise

Rod Levey Tribute

New Member True North

Cutlery Drawer & Water Tank

Instrument Replacement

Hydraulic Tank Replacement

Ships Bells

Around the Bay Cruise

Wyanga Park Winery

2014 December

Winter Dinner

Season Opening at Docklands

Queenscliff Music Festival

Magnum Christmas Party

New Member Profile Lucky Last  #76

Watermark Nets a New Keel

Breakaway Gets a Carbon Mast

Cruising Grounds of Queensland

Coastguard SafeTrx App

Cruising in France

Coffin Bay - Again

2014 June

AGM

Easter at the Lakes

New Member Breakaway

Mast Raising

Trailer Brakes

Motor Replacement 1

Motor Replacement 2

Checklists

Multi-Purpose Spinnaker

Believe It Or Not

Motor Temperature Meter

Cygnet Regatta

Port Lincoln Cruise

2013 December

Winter Dinner

Season Opening at Docklands

Queenscliff Music Festival

Magnum Christmas Party

Whitsundays Cruise

Goulburn River Cruise to the Wineries

New Member Profile Ruby Red  #36

Jabulani - Magnum #90

Mast Raising System

Screwed and Burnt

Trailer Troubles - Whitsundays

A New Motor in Silent Mistress

My Boat Take II - Magnum #32

Narrowboating in the footsteps of Jack de Crow

2013 June

Christmas BBQ

Annual General Meeting

Westernport Bay Cruise 3

Easter at the Lakes

Metho Drips Silently

Another Trailer failure Story

Tohatsu Motor Retrofit

Magnum Easter Cup History

On the Beach at Refuge Cove

New Years Eve on Sydney Harbour

A Fright in The Rip


2012 December

Winter Dinner

Season Opening at Docklands

Queenscliff Music Festival

Magnum Christmas Party

New Member Profile Ol’ 55 - #71

PFD Testing

Long Distance Towing Tips

Your Guide to Paynesville

Hastings Winter Series 

Port Fairy

The Traveller Beer Luggers

Just Another Brake Story

2012 June

Annual General Meeting 2

Corio Bay Cruise

Easter

Refuge Cove Cruise

New Member Profile Silent Mistress - #55

Surfboard Wax

Lazy Jacks

Eating Out -The Magnum Good Food Guide

History of Magnum Yachts – Letter to the Editor

New Caledonia

Animals of the Lakes

Give Me Sails Any Day!

On the Way Home from the Boat Show ...

Tin Mine Cove Cruise

2011 December

Salt and Batteries

Winter Dinner

Docklands Season Opener

Queenscliff Music Festival

New Member Profile Mixed Nuts #48

Cook Up a Feast - Slowly

Reduce Your Waste Space

The History of Magnum Yachts

The Magnum Moulds

Book Review: “Two’s a Crew”

My Boat Magnitude

Queenscliff to Geelong Race

Whitsundays – the BIG trip

To Lake Eyre and Beyond

Our Great Escape in the Bay of Islands

Cruising the Spencer Gulf

My Favourite Places on the Gippsland Lakes

Another Great Destination: Williamstown

2011 June

AGM and Boat Show

Easter at the Lakes

Goulburn River Again

New Member Profile Lalita - #29

Happy Hookers on the Eyre Peninsula

All Roads Lead to Queenscliff

Open Heart Surgery for Happy Hookers

Melbourne to Hobart

Tasmania with an “Ouch”

Houn’s Revenge

2010 December

Trailerable Yacht Festival

The Traveller: Croatia

Are your Navigation lights Legal?

Trailer Tyres

Manufacturer's Column

2010 June

AGM

Easter at The lakes

Refuge Revisited - the 2nd Annual Cruise

The Goulburn River Cruise

New Member Profile: Top Gun

Coastal Cruising on a Magnum - Rosslyn bay to Airlie Beach

Amourette Installs a 2 Stroke Tohatsu

Anchoring

2009 December

Magnum Electrics

Lewmar Rope Clutches

Magnitude Heads North

Cruising Keppel Islands

Cruising Croatia