We leave Susui in the south of Vanua Balavu and sail to the north of the island. Margy wakes up on her birthday in the most beautiful anchorage in the Bay of Islands where the cliffs are undercut and the water is the perfect colour. We snorkel, swim, kayak...
In Taveuni we anchored in an anchorage on the north west of the island. Through a friend of a friend, we found a great driver who explained some of the economy of Taveuni to us. He said that Taveuni is the garden island of Fiji with its fertile soil and hi...
We summarise our sailing for the last year and outline our plans for 2021. We will sail around Australia, 7500nm (15,000km) from Southport to Southport via the Great Australian Bight, the Western Australian coast including the magnificent Kimberley Coast, ...
After waiting at Eden@SailingZatara and @TheCruisingKiwis for a weather window and checking the weather updates many times each day, we decided to leave. We had learnt that if we stop in Victoria we wouldn't be allowed into western australia at that time...
We were tired of the monotony of life so we just sold up and bought a boat and now we are enjoying things we had only dreamt of. Things like... deserted islands, coral reefs, scuba diving, sailing, kite boarding, discovering new cultures and fishing. The c...
Our sailing 'the big lap' around Australia continues. We sail to Pearson Island, go ashore with our dinghy and almost swamp it with the big swell on the beach. We explore the incredible landscape that is inhabited by sea lions and their cubs and endemic ro...
We enjoy the delights of exquisite Lucky Bay, by surfing, snorkelling and hiking before heading to Esperance, then Bremer Bay to see the marine spectacle and then around Cape Leeuwin and Cape Naturaliste to Busselton. Keith and Renee from @SailingZatara jo...
Busselton is our first stop after rounding the Capes of Leeuwin and Naturaliste and the first time we can relax after the potentially difficult passages. We explore the Busselton, Margaret River and Pemberton areas nearby by car and enjoy the craft beers, ...
At Fremantle Sailing Club we have all our gear out on the walkway before heading out to Rottnest Island. First we fuel up on the dock at Fremantle and then head west about 15 nautical miles to Thomson Bay at Rottnest and eventually managed to tie up to the...
We pulled up at Lancelin and had loads of fun sandboarding down the massive dunes there behind the town. Next stop was Green island where we snorkelled and saw hundreds of fish, plus some lobsters but sadly weren't able to catch a lobster. After Green Isla...
Sailed in to Geraldton for a few days to hide from a big blow. Russ made new bridel lines that broke in Jurien Bay. We then sailed out to the Abrolhos Islands with @SailingZatara with the view to fully experiencing the delights of these famous islands by d...
We sail north to Shark Bay and on the way up we catch a Wahoo and Russ shows us how to fillet it. We explore Dirk Hartog Island with Rachel and Rob from @TheCruisingKiwis. Dirk Hartog Island is only accessible by boat or ferry and has some of the best fish...
Walking up a gorge in Cape Range National Park was a double treat. Its so lovely to be able to do some serious walking when you're on board a boat and it was a privilege to be able to walk in one of the oldest landscapes with ancient fossils. We trekked up...
We leave Broome and sailing up to Cape Leveque, exploring the spectacular red cliffs and rocky bays along the way. We are amazed at the number of people who have driven their cars with caravans and campers right up to these remote beach spots. The bush cam...
This video summarises our 2021, sailing around Australia in our Leopard 50. We left the Gold Coast on 12th February 2021, stopping at Coffs Harbour, Sydney, Eden and Port Lincoln. We then crossed The Great Australian Bight, rounded Cape Leeuwin one fo the ...
In just one day we anchored our boat some 25 nautical miles from King Cascade, got the tender off, fuled her up, picked up our friends David & Tina then made our way up the river to the Cascades.When we first saw the cascades we all said OH!! WOW!! We...
We get fuel at Dog Leg Creek from Mick the barge operator and then venture into Silver Gull Creek where we anchor for a few days. We met Robyn and intrepid 70 year old woman sailing on her own with great skill and determination. We went fishing and caught ...
In this video we leavew Dugong Bay, just around the corner from Horizontal Falls. There are whirlpools and overfalls everywhere as the tide goes out with us. We head across the enormous bay to Raft Point where we anchor in 20m of water. Our afternoon dingh...
One of the main reasons for buying a boat was to cruise through the Kimberly, and now weve done it and realised our dream. The fishing through the Kimberly was amazing!. So much adventure, every day brought new challengers even trying to fing Aboriginal ro...
We went to Thailand to check out the build of our new longreach58 power catamaran. It was great to chat with James Dewing the boat builder and owner of @Longreach catamarans and @Powerplay Catamarans. He is very busy because of the popularity of the new br...
This time we check out the interior of our boat and more of the products that are going into the build. We check the view from the massive helm and flybridge and discuss how we will fit it out. We also chat about the ""TOY"" storage on the extended flybrid...
We learn of supply chain issues that puts our delivery date back further. This time its our Yanmar engines and gear box. Selecting products and colours for our boat is a big job but we decide on 3M wrap for the cabinets, recessed locking handles, some Firg...
After 30000 nautical of sailing around the pacific and Australia we decided to have a power catamaran built. We wanted a more purpose built catamaran for full time cruising. loosing the mast has taken some stess out of our life. But we did need to be able ...
We head back to Thailand to check on progress off our power catamaran and sort out some decisions that had to be made. We also needed to meet our shipping container that we had packed with all our belongings to put on our boat. We had organisied it some 5 ...
During this visit to Thailand and the boat yard we see the boat fully painted inside and out. We meet a lovely couple from Manilla who are also interested in the building of a Longreach Catamaran. We all meet with James to discuss different aspects of the ...
The boat has been going through a stage off no apparent progress but a lot of hidden work has been done. Alot of the BLING is now being installed and also a lot of the services like plumbing , electrical, cabinets, winches and navigational gear.
We have had our Yanmar engines ordered and paid for 1 year now and they finally turn up but with no controls. After much searching the world a friend of ours contacted a friend who had a contact with Yanmar International in Holland. He was Peter the owner ...
Finally, after a 2 year build in Pattaya, SE Thailand, our new Longreach 58 power catamaran is ready to hit the water. It's carefully pushed out of the factory on castor wheels by lots of helpers. The local Thai workers insisted on a religious ceremony to ...
We start exploring the Islands of Thailand, they are beautiful . some of the water clarity is brilliant. learning all the systems and gadgets on the boat is a bit of a steep learning curve but things like Dockmate and Joystick control takes a lot the stres...
Russ takes you for a look around the outside of Sunrise III, A Longreach 58 Expedition. From the engine bays to solar on the roof, we cover it all. And a little Fire Dancing. Stats... 3000 lts of water storage, 9000 of fuel storage, 1.5 meter draft, Almost...
As our boat was built in Thailand, we didn't have a port clearance from our previous port. This required us to ''export'' our boat which involves taking the boat to another country and checking us and the boat into that country. We chose Cambodia because i...
We had a look around Terengganu in the north east of mainland Malaysia, exploring its Chinese temples and mural walks, highlighting its close relationship with turtles and their desire to protect them. We visited a traditional wooden boat building business...
Continuing on with Sail Malaysia Go East Rally, we visited Tioman Island, then Terengganu, then on to the Anambas Islands where we visited a folk music festival. From there we cruised to Kuching in Sarawak and got to see Urang Utans in the local sanctuary ...
So many great days swimming, snorkelling, diving, kyaking and having fun with friends around Palawan. It had to come to a end, sometime! From Palawan we made our way to Subic Bay just North of Manilla. It used to be a large US Navy Base and still has a hug...
We arrived in Okinawa and checked into Japan with the very friendly officials. We docked in Yonabaru Marina which is friendly, clean and well run. Great services nearby including fabulous supermarket and farmers market. We used our bicycles to explore the ...
We left Yonabaru Marina and headed north, along the western side of Okinawa. After lots of searching we found a good anchorage on the north of Motobu Island, near the big bridge. We then headed to Yoron which is a round island, just north of Okinawa. We ma...
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