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#sailing #learning #indonesia Sailing away from Darwin means leaving Australia! Our destination is Kupang Indonesia, approximately 550miles away. I've taken 2 backpackers with me for this leg of the Mad Dash. It's their first ever sailing experience. See...

#sailing #solosailing #maxspeed Sailing on my own to Darwin today. Not much wind so I decided to see how well I can tune the sails to get the maximum out of my Crowther performance catamaran. I had a sea bird come land on deck. I named him Fred and he sta...

#sailing #solosailing #solotravel Sailing the 800 miles from Thursday Island to Darwin alone will be the biggest challenge I've faced yet since owning Trade Runner. I've done plenty of solo passages before and actually really enjoy them but so far only on...

#sailing #offgrid #capeyork Sailing 2500 miles up the East coast of Australia I finally make it to Cape York, the northern most point on the continent. Its been a trek, with a destroyed mainsail and a collision at sea but also some amazing sailing days...

We make our way to Governor Island West and are immediately threatened by an impending storm! Magnus puts out the crab pots. We then head south to Mission Bay to check out the abandoned Pago Mission and then it’s on to Honeymoon Bay which has a campgrou...

We leave the King George River and make our way around the corner of Kalooma Bay to “Lagoon Bay”. It didn’t have a name so we named it! We go ashore and spot the resident crocodile in a beautiful lagoon. No swimming for us! We then head up the coas...

We arrive at Lacrosse Island and check out the beautiful mangroves. Magnus discusses our solar setup. We make our way to Wyndham to get fuel and water. We explore the little port and find a lovely museum. Then it’s back onboard to sail north up to Sti...

We leave the careening poles and head out to sea to put the new engine to the test and to make sure that everything is OK. Then it’s back to the marina for a couple of nights for last minute boat jobs and to provision Nutshell with fresh produce. We fi...

This episode is packed full of boat jobs, both big and small. We are now up on the careening poles at he Dinah Beach Cruising Club. As the tide heads out, we work and as it comes back in we down tools on the outside of Nutshell and do inside jobs instead....

It’s time to leave Tipperary Waters Marina and slowly make our way around the corner to the Dinah Beach Careening Poles. Only one little problem though, the shaft has not arrived for the engine, so we have no power. We are escorted to the poles by a flot...

It’s finally time for Nutshell to get her new engine. With the engine bay now all newly painted and ready, we take Nutshell to the lock, under tender power and meet up with the crane which is going to drop the engine into Nutshell for us. Everything goe...

Magnus begins the task of removing all of the old wiring and unnecessary stuff from the engine bay. We head to Noonamah to do work on Peanut’s captain collars. It’s also time to check if the old gearbox will fit the new Volvo engine. We have a leak i...