Heading out of Thursday Island on our way to cross the Gulf of Carpentaria, goodbye north Queensland see you soon Northern Territory. Nothing like downwind sailing, everything is usually smooth but unfortunately it was not. Three things happened to keep us...
A Step by Step dyneema splice. The splice you need to know to have your synthetic standing rigging rocking on your boat.
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Doing your own rigging you have to be creative some times and this time we put it to test. Check how we stretched our Dux Synthetic Standing Rigging.
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Jump aboard Longreef and watch the crew catch their first tuna.
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Someone had to give the Big Eye Tuna a special treatment. Margarida was chosen, watch her preparing the fish.
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At Cobourg Peninsula its time to find some crocodiles. We have seen their tracks and we have seen them far away and now we get to see a young and shy crocodile greeting us.
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Our new home as a name - FREEDOM. Watch us getting Freedom ready to splash.
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Maintenance day on Longreef, the girls were in charge of scraping the hull and I got the propellors just for my self.
Cobourg was the last chance we had to beach the boat to get these jobs done before we got to Darwin.
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Hoping to see more wild animal life!? This episode is for you, our dodgy version of National Geographic is out! Starting the day being greeted at breakfast by a crocodile and having a blissfull afternoon watching eagles. But not before I finish my job of p...
On our way to Darwin, passing by Adam's Bay!
Peter gets in action and "puts his hands on Jules", she's having a sharp pain in her neck that makes her unable to turn her head. A full service is served on Longreef!
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Our length of stay granted to us was at an end. We had to leave the USA and leave our Floridian friends and We feel that ACUTELY. We left with a crew of 3, me the beautiful Margarida and Tim the davit man. There was no weather window for us just the fact t...
These week we have an unseen episode from our time on a northern territory Island before we start with the Kimberley series. After the crocodiles and eagles this time we decided to show you how hermit crabs perform.
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After some days off, re-stocking the boat we are off to the Kimberley. One of the most remote regions in the Northwest Australia with an amazing wildlife. Our first stop - Berkeley River surprises with his frontier spirit. All inclusive, climbing gorges, w...
In this episode we head to the King George River where we enjoy showering on the Twin Falls, discover the best swim hole ever and uncover the secret to keep the Gremlin away from your boat.
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Get wonderfully lost in the aboriginal rock art and surf into Glycosmis Bay. Explore with us this ancient city called The Lost city and find out more of this human story-telling tradition.
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We felt right at home in the Drysdale River. Full Menu - fabulous fishing, great wild life and amazing fresh water pools.
Who could ask for more!?
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In search of more Rock Art we head to the Osbourne Islands. There we are surprised with mystery caves and "caught by the huge kimberley tide" where we are stranded high and dry. Art's Creek follows with more amazing Art sites.
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On this episode we hit some uncharted rocks and we fight to save the boat in the most remote region of Australia.
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We begin our journey on the day we are obliged to get out of the United States. We left with a crew of 3, me the beautiful Margarida and Tim the davit man. It is not the best time of year to sail across the gulf but there are no tropical disturbances in ou...
We twice try to cross the Yucatan channel where there is a strong 5 knot northerly current but both times get thrown back north into the Gulf of Mexico because of little wind. Our back up plans are Cuba and Key West since the current is already taking us t...
Now in Mexican territory - Isla Mujeres the crew gets to have some fun exploring the Island and the most important of all discover why our engine stopped working.
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Keen to explore Mexico we take a field trip to the mainland to visit the Cenote Fantasma (the ghost sinkhole) an underground cave and one of the 7 wonders of the world, Chichen Itzá an ancient Mayan city. But fun can't be had all at once so back to the ...
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On this episode I surprise Margarida and take her to swim with whale sharks. Get mesmorized by these gentle, majestic creatures.
On this episode I surprise Margarida and take her to swim with whales sharks.
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Our time in Isla Mujeres came to and end so we head to the Island Cozumel. With a lot of Mexico still to explore we decide to submerge a bit more into the Mayan civilization and go to explore the Ruins of Tulum and Cobá.
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Sailing from Cozumel, Mexico to Belize, Margarida was battling nausea while we were dodging small storm cells. Finally we make it to Belize but then had to deal with random and suspect Belizean fees in our first encounter. Let the fun begin.
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We welcome our Dear friend Duane onboard and venture out beyond Belize's barrier reef and visit some of their outer atolls.
On our first night we stay at Turneffe atoll where we are attacked by mosquitos and seek refuge in the incredibly clear water of Li...
We couldnt leave Half Moon Caye without first checking the Ermlund shipwreck, a ship that lost power during a storm and was
thrown on the reef by a large wave. With many options to explore we take a snorkeling excursion to the legendary Blue Hole, an und...
Keen to continue exploring the Belizean atolls we decided to raise anchor and the unexpected happened. We lose our chain and anchor in the middle of the reef at sunset. Watch how the crew teemed up and rescued our beloved Rocna.
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After our last incident where we lost our anchor we finally leave the Blue Hole and head back to Half Moon Caye for a spectacular drift snorkel over the undersea cliff of the atoll. On our way to the next piece of paradise we had a surprise visitor, a beau...
Its all good and fun fun fun with the dinghy and motor....lightning strikes and we lose our wind generator and surprisingly 2 solar panels are blown as well. Our yanmar fails again just before we enter a narrow pass in the reef so we are lucky in the timin...
We say goodbye to our friend Duane and pay a little visit to Placencia, a fishing village with a cool cultural vibe. Here we try to find a dinghy and outboard but no luck so we decide to head to the reef and explore Northeast Sapodilla Caye where we found ...
We leave Sapodilla Cayes to Tom Owen's Caye where we find a very unusual Shell House, made of Conch shells. Invited by the owners we take a tour through the house and its history.
It's time to leave Belize but not before we visit the tiniest island ever w...
On this episode we sail to Rio Dulce, Guatemala, the holy grail of the hurricane holes in the caribbean. Getting in Guatemala start's well, NOT! We try to contact the Port Caption to get information how to cross the bar but no response and quickly we reali...
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