Don McIntyre’s Column “Ocean Adventures” is published every month in the “Tradeaboat” Magazine
THIS BOATING LIFE
It’s the life for me, the good and the bad, so get aboard and chase your dreams
BRING IT ON
Meet my new crew for our next wreck-diving adventure in the tropical waters of Tonga
TRAILER BOAT ADVENTURES
Adventure boats come in all sizes, even trailer-boats, says Don, MEDIVAC, IKI.
LIFES EXPECTANCY
Don realises life isn’t long enough to cram in his bucket list of adventures. MAYDAY.
VULCANS FORGE
It’s a red hot adventure on Tonga’s Tofua Island
LIFE IS A GAMBLE
Don is packed and off to Tonga for a new chapter in his life’s adventure
TONGAN TRIBUNALS
Don appeases some very unhappy Tongans and dispenses some pearls of wisdom for those of us confronting a personal terror that’s actual or mental
CHALLENGES IN TONGA
One person’s picnic can be another’s adventure..BLUE BASE
SHIVER ME TIMBERS!
At last, a dream becomes a reality for Don and co, searching Davey Jones’ Locker for historical relics in the South Pacific
NOT ME?
Office workers know only too well the ramifications of a computer meltdown and no backup. It’s finally Don’s turn to go through this modern-day affliction before getting into some “island” towing cloud 9.
MY MAN!
Don reveals the influence English boating adventurer David Scott Cowper has had on his life
WANT TO BE AN EXPLORER
DON MCINTYRE announces a once-in-a-lifetime offer to sponsor two young people on a 10-week dive adventure in Tonga
A REAL LIFE IN REAL TIME
It’s time to pull your head out of the virtual sand and get back into the real world, says DON MCINTYRE
SOUTHERN OCEAN RESQUE…
DON MCINTYRE relates the January rescue of French solo-sailer Alain Dulord in the Southern Ocean and asks: “Who pays?”
CULTURAL VANDALISM
Cultural vandalism in Tonga . An open letter to the people of the Friendly Isles
GAME ON!
Wreck diving and filming documentaries are in store for Don and crew this year, in the interim Don is keeping ICE safe in a hole for cyclone season
DREAMS HAPPEN
A student of Don McIntyre’s dreaming, Tobias Fahey, 26, is attempting a quest to become the fastest Australian to complete a solo non-stop and unassisted global circumnavigation in the 50-foot yacht Sea Quest
LIVE LIFE LARGE
It feels good to be alive folks, it’s cheap in some parts of the planet
SHARK ATTACK
Paradise one day, survival the next. Don recounts that day last month, when his crewmember Kylie Maguire
survived a shark attack in Tonga
SURF WRECK AND REEFS
In the hunt for shipwrecks, ICE narrowly escapes becoming a statistic herself after striking a coral reef, but Nirvana quickly returns on a classic surf day
MEGA TONGA
Still in Tonga, the crew on Ice are doing it tough — bodiless fish, castaway survival and missing
treasure — but they wouldn’t be anywhere else
A LOST ART
Life time of adventure award. Don reveals that there is a plan to removing compulsory
sextant training for commercial Ship’s Masters — what would B
AND THE BAD NEWS IS
Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong — is also an aphorism
of the cruising sailer, not just Murphy’s…and don loves it!
CRAZY CREW
Don is at sea again, this time in Fiji, with a new crew on
a treasure hunting adventure
MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK
Don hints at more adventures in Tonga and goes on a long road trip
through the southern states, picking-up a hitchhiker along the way
RESPONSIBILITY IT”S YOUR CALL
Whether you’re a five-star explorer or a crazy do-or-die adventurer,
risk-tacking can involve putting the lives of others at peril.
DON MCINTYRE says it’s best to play by the rules
WHY DID I DO IT?
DON MCINTYRE reveals his purpose in life, where adventure
and experiences reign above the comforts of modern consumerism
FOR KIDS SAKE
Don is back in marine suburbia with liveaboard families
as neighbours, reminding him of the early life of one solo sailor, Jessica Watson
TURNING A NEW LEAF
Don knows the power and sway of books. But his latest
find is right up there with the best-ever reads…
WHERE FOR ART THOU DON
Don says questioning dreams will either stop you in your
tracks or see you constantly cruising the globe
PARADISE LOST
Trade-a-Boat deprived DON MCINTYRE and crew remain marooned in the Pacific
and it’s not all paradise, but there’s time for plenty of varied reflection and words of advice.
BATTLE FOR TARAWA
Engine woes have Don and crew marooned on Tarawa
Atoll in the Pacific. Sadly, it’s not that idyllic a place
SELF RESCUE
Don loves adventures and gets one when his motor dies a long way
from anywhere in the Pacific Ocean, lost at sea, crayfish and risk.
DON”S PARTY
The people you meet. Don and crew spend six weeks in Palau and mingle
with a disparate but likeminded bunch of cruising adventurers
POTS OF GOLD
Having realised their cruising dreams, some adventurers simply
walk away and leave a bargain
GOING SOFT
Instead of a starvation diet or shivering in polar climes, Don
opts for all-out luxury in hisforthcoming Pacific Ocean expedition
POLES APART
Three tales from the South Pole: one tragic, one almost tragic,
and another safely averted
THINGS HAPPEN!
Do things and rewards will follow. Don details his new high-seas
boating adventures from the tropical Philippines to Antarctica
CIRCUMNAVIGATOR
Australian sailor Alex Whitworth keeps company with bluewater sailing
elites such as Chichester, Knox-Johnston and more
EGGING YOU ON
Don rates adventures like he does eggs — soft, medium or hard,
Young Endevour,Meaning of life.
THE ICE MAN COMETH.
Steam power, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Captain William Bligh, Jessica
Watson, expeditions, new boat, shipwrecks… this is the current
state of DON MCINTYRE’s passionate life
CONCRETE PLANS
Concrete boats, Jester challenge, crew for around the world, oldest solo, Mary Anne Stresau
JUST DO IT
Don id Back after the Bounty voyage a lot thinner but still keeping the Dream Alive
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY
Don loses half his Talisker Bounty Boat crew, but quickly finds
replacements and is a hit in Tonga
HIGH ACHIEVERS
As this 400th edition of Trade-a-Boat hits the stands, Jessica Watson is heading
home, and Don McIntyre is about to sail across the Pacific Ocean in an open boat