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We make final preparations and set sail after repairs in Uruguay in a potentially dangerous but fast weather window, but will the Armada allow us to leave on a non-stop journey to Patagonia? Find out as we finally go sailing toward our goal of rounding Cap...

In this weeks episode, we sail back to La Paz from our secluded anchorages. After finding out our prop has been chipped and bent, we start coming up with a plan to address it. In the meantime, we hike and explore what La Paz has to offer up until a weather...

We leave Pancake Creek and Bustard Head lighthouse to continue our trek north to our planned stop at beautiful Great Keppel Island. Enroute, we have to navigate our way through hundreds of huge bulk carrier ships anchored off the Port of Gladstone waiting...

We sail Our Dreamtime north from Burnett Heads to remote anchorage at Pancake Creek where we spend some time exploring the natural delights of this out of the way location only accessible by boat. We also visit the historic Bustard Head Lighthouse cloaked ...

We hadn’t planned to spend long in the Port of Bundaberg Marina but unfavourable winds and a long list of boat jobs conspired to keep us there for over a week. Thanks to one of our generous Patreon supporters, Griff, we made good use of a loan car and hi...

In today’s episode we finally leave Gary’s Anchorage at K’Gari and wind our way through the narrow channels of the Great Sandy Straits to Big Woody Island for a catch up with friends. Our early start next morning goes awry when the engine won’t st...

We were sad to leave the beautiful sand lagoon anchorage at Double Island Point but sailing north in Spring, we need to make use of every weather window available, so it was another crossing of the ever-changing Wide Bay Bar. We have never followed the sam...

We’re on our way north again to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef and already the fish are being hauled in while we sail. How we do it is one of our most asked questions and in this episode Rob reveals our no longer secret “Spero Rig” that has transfo...

After being tied to the dock overcoming health challenges for the last 20 months, we make final preparations to cast off the lines and sail north to the Great Barrier Reef. There’s a Costco trip to load our ketch with bulk provisions. We fill our fuel ta...

In this video, you meet our third crew member HARRY HALL! We go provisioning as well as finish up some last minute boat projects. Thank you for watching! If you want to support us further, check out our Patreon page! https://patreon.com/sailingsitka?utm_...

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...

It’s time make a start on working out what we are going to need to buy for our time in the Kimberley. We are planning on provisioning for 5 months, so that’s a lot of planning and a lot of stuff! The first step is to empty the pantries, throw out old ...