Maybe you could research some more. It will take more than one summer. It has been done by kayak, and the same issues were encountered in the Bight. (The guy kayaked for 30 hours nonstop.)
Look for the book in your library. Food and water supplies, navigation, weather, back up, communications, health and having a very small boat are the main issues I can think of right now. People die in small yachts every year, and you won't be the last one.

You have speed over the kayak but you can't carry stores , a beach cat has done it as well

issue with my windrush beach cat is that it won't turn back over once you get it on its side, the mast just sinks down into turtle and I'm not heavy enough to get it back over. My laser has a few hatches that let me put things in the hull, aswell as I can strap things to the mast and hiking strap, then provision when I am near towns.

I'll be reading both of those books, thank you for the advice.

i would much rather take the windrush, but I think the capsizing issue is something I would have to work out first. One forum suggested filling the mast up with ping pong balls, maybe also using a big water jug as a mast float, but I will have to take it out to a spot in the harbour where I can flip it over multiple times to practice,I think the laser is seeming easier at the moment

thanks SB, that is a really good point. it didn't occur to me also that it's not going to be possible to hike out the whole time, that would take more endurance than I think I would be able to manage so the speed is going to be an issue with that and the angle of the wind.

you are right , I wouldn't want to be going very far offshore, in case I have to make the swim back in if it comes to that.

thank you for the valuable thoughts

Toph, those spots do look quite nasty, and I was planning on beach camping, I was thinking about crocodiles being an issue in certain places but I hadn't gotten around to working out that detail yet, I honestly hadn't considered support the whole way, I think it would be hard to find somebody willing.

Can't figure out why anyone would want to do this - obviously your shore crew is the key...............

Sublime effort right there by Caffin. Must have had a lot of shotgun lead to ward off the crocs over the top?

Norman R Wright and Sons since 1909.................legendary boat builders and designers..............

www.wrightsons.com.au/

Was trying to find the footage of the lady and 2 blokes who were sail boarding around Tasmania - someone will - she ended up in a hospital and was ok but not sure if the 2 blokes made it much further - someone will know please advise.

Anyway found this...............around Tasmania

sailsurfroam.com/blog-larissa/2016/1/29/q1wwtd0n6dpit2vfyhc8iurol1ez7q

If you are the man of steel you should be OK.

r13 said..
Can't figure out why anyone would want to do this - obviously your shore crew is the key...............

Sublime effort right there by Caffin. Must have had a lot of shotgun lead to ward off the crocs over the top?

Norman R Wright and Sons since 1909.................legendary boat builders and designers..............

www.wrightsons.com.au/

Was trying to find the footage of the lady and 2 blokes who were sail boarding around Tasmania - someone will - she ended up in a hospital and was ok but not sure if the 2 blokes made it much further - someone will know please advise.

Anyway found this...............around Tasmania

sailsurfroam.com/blog-larissa/2016/1/29/q1wwtd0n6dpit2vfyhc8iurol1ez7q

Caffin only had shore crew so to speak being a young lady in an old panel van which could Not follow him much of the way.

Check out the part of him waiting on the sand bank in the North west waiting for a cyclone to blow through and the sea rising to overtake the bank

Cripes this must be the record for the net frequency (ie number per time) of responses to a post since it was posted - Laurie please advise.

Lydia please advise the link to Caffin's effort. The young lady should have got a Holden panel van not a Ford...............sorry that's a joke, no need to respond.............

It definetly would not be comfortable.
I dont think it would be possible without a support boat or 4x4. You just dont have the room.

I used to go for camping trips to peel island from raby bay on our laser when i was a teen. A voyage of 6-7 nautical miles. I would tie all my gear against the mast becuase it wouldnt stay anywhere else. Everything that wasnt in a dry bag was soaked by the time you got to the beach.

It would be easier (but still incredibly difficult) to do it in something like a hobie or caper cat. The latter of which have storage in the hulls. A cat will also take the weight better.

If you are serious keep researching. It has the potential to be a trip to remember for the rest of your life.

Regards,

Keep Australia to the left was funny as hell , dead serious American and a larrikin Ozzie , got as far as Darwin.
then there was A German girl tough as nails she did it in a kayak and went on to circumnavigate America .
then a Australian guy did it on a kayak but unlike the German girl he did sail his kayak she paddled but still a fantastic effort.and then of course the cat trip around.
if you want a shake down sail up from Sydney along Stockton beach camp there then sail to Broughton island just off Port Stephens , by then you should be ready to get in the car and head home.

I will brag here - I was a Laser NSW state champ, youth national champ and 20th in the open worlds in the Laser. You will die. I would not do it and I can gybe a Laser in 25-30 knots. I can square run a Laser in big winds - for a while. You cannot, almost no-one who doesn't train lots can. As for ten knots - again totally incorrect. A ten knot average means you are hitting 15 often and that is incredibly rare on a Laser. Here is a video of Mara Stransky sailing offshore. Mara is our women's Olympic rep. Her parents followed her in the family livaboard catamaran. She has sailed since she was born and is one of the best sailors I have ever seen. She capsizes and she is better then any of us. She gets absolutely exhausted by the trip.


Or this is Michael Blackburn - Laser Worlds champ - crossing Bass strait. He took a decade to learn to sail a laser really well.
Back to how to do it. I am a sea kayaker too. Paul Caffin, Freya Hoffmeister and Stuart Truman have all circumnavigated. I would not do it in a kayak. The best boat for me would be a small version of a Malibu outrigger - stable, fast and easy to right after capsize. Gary Dierking has a beautiful design called the Ulua which would be fab for a trip up the coast. Safe, fast under paddle and sail, light enough to move up the beach on your own. I would take a ply version of this boat.


Read Trumans book. Then go to a sea kayak convention and talk to people who do this type of stuff. Sail the east coast in the autumn in an Ulua. That would be fun.

Don't take a Laser.

Plan on an average speed of 4 knots. Select a boat that was not designed on a napkin for lake sailing!

Kankama said..
I will brag here - I was a Laser NSW state champ, youth national champ and 20th in the open worlds in the Laser. You will die. I would not do it and I can gybe a Laser in 25-30 knots. I can square run a Laser in big winds - for a while. You cannot, almost no-one who doesn't train lots can. As for ten knots - again totally incorrect. A ten knot average means you are hitting 15 often and that is incredibly rare on a Laser. Here is a video of Mara Stransky sailing offshore. Mara is our women's Olympic rep. Her parents followed her in the family livaboard catamaran. She has sailed since she was born and is one of the best sailors I have ever seen. She capsizes and she is better then any of us. She gets absolutely exhausted by the trip.

Or this is Michael Blackburn - Laser Worlds champ - crossing Bass strait. He took a decade to learn to sail a laser really well.

Back to how to do it. I am a sea kayaker too. Paul Caffin, Freya Hoffmeister and Stuart Truman have all circumnavigated. I would not do it in a kayak. The best boat for me would be a small version of a Malibu outrigger - stable, fast and easy to right after capsize. Gary Dierking has a beautiful design called the Ulua which would be fab for a trip up the coast. Safe, fast under paddle and sail, light enough to move up the beach on your own. I would take a ply version of this boat.

Read Trumans book. Then go to a sea kayak convention and talk to people who do this type of stuff. Sail the east coast in the autumn in an Ulua. That would be fun.

Don't take a Laser.

K , I suspect we sailed against each other at times as would occasionally hop in a Laser for big regattas like the East Coasts.
We used to get our girlfriends to drive us and our Lasers about 50 miles up the coast drop us off and we would sail back home in big sea breezes
Over 25 you lose it every few miles.
Great fun but.

Kankama said..
I will brag here - I was a Laser NSW state champ, youth national champ and 20th in the open worlds in the Laser. You will die. I would not do it and I can gybe a Laser in 25-30 knots. I can square run a Laser in big winds - for a while. You cannot, almost no-one who doesn't train lots can. As for ten knots - again totally incorrect. A ten knot average means you are hitting 15 often and that is incredibly rare on a Laser. Here is a video of Mara Stransky sailing offshore. Mara is our women's Olympic rep. Her parents followed her in the family livaboard catamaran. She has sailed since she was born and is one of the best sailors I have ever seen. She capsizes and she is better then any of us. She gets absolutely exhausted by the trip.

Or this is Michael Blackburn - Laser Worlds champ - crossing Bass strait. He took a decade to learn to sail a laser really well.

Back to how to do it. I am a sea kayaker too. Paul Caffin, Freya Hoffmeister and Stuart Truman have all circumnavigated. I would not do it in a kayak. The best boat for me would be a small version of a Malibu outrigger - stable, fast and easy to right after capsize. Gary Dierking has a beautiful design called the Ulua which would be fab for a trip up the coast. Safe, fast under paddle and sail, light enough to move up the beach on your own. I would take a ply version of this boat.

Read Trumans book. Then go to a sea kayak convention and talk to people who do this type of stuff. Sail the east coast in the autumn in an Ulua. That would be fun.

Don't take a Laser.

thank you for all this info, I have a lot of reading to do :) an easy coast trip does sound fun, and a lot more manageable