Hi Sally and John, I recently sailed a 35 foot monohull drawing 1.8 m from Mooloolaba Qld to Perth. We had no problems working through the Kimberley but you do need to work the tides and some bars can be tricky. If you would like to discuss our passage plan and other aspects of the trip feel free to contact me directly. We were on a tight schedule but enjoyed a deal of the diversity of the regain. My email is bgwalsh1@bigpond.com

The downloadable anchorage documents on this site were excellent and as Ross advises the West Australian Cruising guide book is a must. We had those as well as paper charts a chart plotter and navionics on a tablet.   So plenty of backup was reassuring even though not needed. Im a bit old fashioned so will always have paper charts although I no many who don’t. We experienced some GPS anomalies that Ross refers to but nothing that couldn’t be overcome with common sense. The worst was at the mouth of King George River where our plotter had us 200m on land!

Regards Grant Walsh