Appreciate advise on selecting the right passage from Brisbane to Gold Coast. My boat is boat drawing 1.5 meters. Would stop overnight on anchorage if possible.

If you have beacon to beacon it shows the best channel.

the anchorages I have used-there are many- are next to karragarra island, there is a nice area sheltered by the three island, and/or Jacobs well, if you go that way. 1.5m you shouldnt have too many issues.

There are many different ways but all depends on your experience.
If you can't do tide curves and secondary port corrections properly or learn pretty quickly.
Using web site ones like the one here is rubbish.

At 1.5m you should not have any problem which ever way you go, whether Main channel or Caniapa Passage or the Charter boat run.
The first two easier at night though.
Main channel is simplest and Caniapa is the prettiest and quietest.

In the main channel, LAT is about 0.60m at the cross over last time I went through but the corner at Jacobs Well has silted a lot with LAT a little more.
The charter boat run is the deepest but requires more local knowledge and is only partially lit.

The corner into the main channel tricks a lot of punters who can't work out the beacons there.

We used to regularly take boats drawing 2.5m though the cross over but we made our own chart from our own soundings.

I would go to Jumpingpin to Slipping Sands to Caniapa Passage and anchor at Canaipa in the creek (LAT on the corner into the creek is 1.0m but stay over near the red)

Great place to sit out a Westerly.

I went from GCCM to Manly with 2.1 m draft.
Touched lightly jusy before Jacob's well,was low tide though.
Took around 7 hours

Here ya go Kris....

Nice work Shaggy, that is the Main channel while the Caniapa Passage trip is that track to kangaroo Island then up to Crusoe Island to port and following the island all the way to under Mt Wilkes which is across from Caniapa.

Appreciate very much, thanks a lot ???

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shaggybaxter said..
Here ya go Kris....

are the surf to city route 165 tacks to sandgate in a north easterly