Departing Fortescue Bay we shoot through the spectacular Hole in the Wall en route to Port Arthur. Along the way we get a fish on the line and get close enough to taste the spray of waves crashing into the cliffs. Join us for a tour of Port Arthur Historic...
This week we explore Fortescue Bay on the Tasman Peninsula where we harvest some gigantic feral shellfish and smoke some of the local bait fish. We also dive on the wreck of the William Pitt in Canoe Bay and take a walk through the Tasmanian "rain forest"....
After taking our fill of mussels from one of the nearby mooring buoys we continue our journey southwards down the east coast of Tasmania with gusting winds keeping us on our toes! We visit the famous Tessellated Pavement at Eagle Hawk Neck on our way to ou...
This is Maria Island. A wildlife paradise aptly named "Tasmania's Noah's Ark". Steeped in history with spectacular walking trails and 300 million year old fossil beds we take you with us on an exploration of this stunning island. If you didn't admire our c...
After being constantly on the move since we'd arrived in Tasmania we were so relieved to be able to anchor Mirrool in this snug, rugged gunk hole anchorage on an island off Tasmania's east coast for a few days. Join us this week for more sailing, diving, h...
Join us for a live chat this weekend! We'll be having 2 live chats 12 hours apart so wherever you are in the world you should be able to catch one of them! One video will be at 1100 UTC on Saturday 2 May 2020 and the other will be at 0000 UTC on Sunday 3 M...
Join us for a live chat this weekend! We'll be having 2 live chats 12 hours apart so wherever you are in the world you should be able to catch one of them! One video will be at 1100 UTC on Saturday 2 May 2020 and the other will be at 0000 UTC on Sunday 3 M...
Join us this week for a sail down the east coast of Tasmania, an incredible sunset, crystal clear water, a review of our solar array and a culinary taste test with a difference!
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Our exploration of the Furneaux Group of islands in Tasmania continues as we dive for, and come up with new fabulous ways to cook, both Black Lip and Green Lip Abalone.
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Join us for our first week at the Furneaux Group of islands in Tasmania, featuring spearfishing, sailing and uncharted shoal dodging. Pascale even trials a few fish offal experiments in the galley.
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Bass Strait is the notorious stretch of water dividing Tasmania from Mainland Australia. Naturally, sailing across it is bound to have some ups and downs, which we feature in this episode and you can join us for the reward at the end of the trip.
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A quick update on our whereabouts and we explain why Free Range Sailing is taking a break from uploading videos for a little while.
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In our final episode on the Australian mainland, we sail away from the worst of the bush fires headed for Tasmania. Rapidly changing weather conditions convince us to pull into the port of Eden where we find a few surprises!
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This video depicts our week in Jervis Bay dodging rapidly changing winds and smokey skies aboard our tiny sailboat during some of the worst of the New South Wales fires in December last year.
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Join us for our last week in Sydney before we say goodbye and sail to the stunning Jervis Bay. We also have to navigate the harbour in thick smoke due to the bushfires burning north of Sydney. This video was filmed in December 2019.
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Today we move all of our reefing lines out of the cockpit to the base of the mast and discuss our reasons for doing so. Moving fittings means we have to re-bed them in a way that is leak proof. Our favourite bedding compound is Butyl rubber tape and we exp...
We sail through Sydney Heads to explore the shoreline of Australia's largest capital city. With a live TV appearance and some boat work planned, we sail Mirrool under the iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge to stay at @MultihullCentral1 where we participate in a ...
Join us this week as we take a tour of 5 very different wooden boats at the Pittwater Wooden Boat Festival.
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After a well earned rest we explore the surrounds of Pittwater before sailing to Gosford to re-provision Mirrool.
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The weather man lied to us again! With forecast 15 to 20 knot offshore winds predicted to give us a beam reach down the coast we expected our trip from Newcastle to Pittwater to be a bit of a non-event. What we got instead was something completely differen...
What happened this week? There was a boom testin', oyster gatherin', fish spearin', soup makin', whale watchin', night sailin' and fridge lid installin'! There's also the usual banter but you're going to have to come along for the ride to hear it.
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On a fast downwind sail from Port Macquarie to Port Stephens we make a big mistake.... Join us this week as we troubleshoot the breakage and make a temporary repair so we can get back out sailing again.
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This week we hoist the sails and continue our journey southwards 128 nautical miles to Port Macquarie where we meet some of the friendly local critters!
Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year!
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Come along with us as we explore the Clarence river in Northern New South Wales.
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