Trade Runner is back in the water and better than ever! After a week on the hard stand repairing the collision damage we get going north again and we are ripping. My new crew member John is pretty excited and I'm loving the strong downwind sailing too.
Ne...
@Collision @propspeed @Australia
Boat yards are never fun but when its an unplanned and unwanted haul out its even less enjoyable. Because Trade Runner was damaged in a collision this work needed to be done before I could continue on to Indonesia.
I wa...
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Bad news this week! Leaving AIrlie Beach we got run into by a charter Catamaran. Trade Runner sustained some damage from the im...
From Mid Percy Island to AIrlie Beach, we had 3 amazing days of sailing, hard to beat really. Good solid winds, warm weather, other boats to race and great company. Trade Runner really is in her stride now and I feel like I have a good grip on her strength...
The Mad Dash continue !
Next Tuesday, Vernon is taking you along 3 days of sailing, from Middle Percy Island to Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays.
Ready to come aboard Trade Runner with us ?
@Thenewkidsonthedock
Trade Runner came with an old Spinnaker and today I got it out for the first time. She's an absolute beauty! I also meet up with Josh & Phoebe from the YT channel "New kids on the dock". They come over to chat about passage planni...
My new Mainsail was waiting for me at Keppel Bay Marina. Made in 7 days then shipped up from the Gold Coast this was a super quick turn around. Also waiting there was my new Raymarine chart plotter and some engine parts.
Weewah left the boat here, he was p...
Leaving Fraser Island behind at 2am we sail the 80nm north to Lady Musgrave. This is a tiny island nestled in a huge coral Atoll with only a single entry/exit. Timing the your arrival is key as the current on an outgoing tide can be anywhere from 3-6kts. W...
#insta360 #insta360x3 #fraserisland
This week we explore the north end of the Worlds biggest sand island, K'gari or Fraser Island. I also have a new camera to show you guys, its the X3, a new model from Insta360. I use it extensively throughout this video...
Mad Dash from Brisbane to Double Island point. We left at 1am Scarborough marina and motored out of Moreton Bay. Along the front of Bribie Island we the port side propellor and rudder got found in some fishing gear wish meant I had to go over the side to c...
Highfield boats are know worldwide as a leading manufacturer of inflatable tenders. We now have one and are super stoked, she fits on Trade Runner like a glove and we are now buzzing round the bay in style.
We went for the UL310 model as it was the biggest...
Leg No.4 from the Gold Coast to Brisbane was a very calm and slow passage. We are in Queensland now and everything is calmer here. The route is all in-land waterways and we had to motor sail the entire way. Still, I managed to sink my drone in Moreton Bay ...
Leg No.3 from Coffs Harbour to the Gold Coast was a wild one! We left Coffs under a black sky with favourable winds. Because of exit and entry timing I'd chosen to leave at 16.30 in order to arrive at the Seaway at first light for that bar crossing. This m...
Leg No.2 from Nelson Bay to Coffs Harbour was a dream run really. Very low winds were forecasted but in reality we had just enough to keep up a nice average speed and sailed right up to the entrance of Coffs Harbour. Having a boat thats light and sails fas...
Righto, its off sailing we GO! All the work is done, Marie is home in France growing our child and I'm delivering the boat 4000miles from Sydney, Australia to Lombok, Indonesia and I need to be there by mid September in order to fly to France to be with Ma...
The last big job to do on Trade Runner was install AIS. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is one of the best electronic aids you can have and I wouldn't want to do night passages without it, especially solo. GME sent me a whole kit and in this vide...
For 3 months now we've been eating dinner on our knees, enough is enough, time to build a new salon.
In this video I show you from start to finish how I accomplished this with minimum tools, products and talent.
The finished result is so nice though and ...
Every sailboat needs new standing rigging at some stage. Mine was over 20 years old so I decided to do most of the work myself. In this video I go through the whole job and show you how I went about this very important job. You shouldn't be scared of this ...
We have some pretty big news to share with you guys in this weeks video. To celebrate we take a few days off the boat and for the first time in nearly a year sleep on land. Thanks to Andre, a kind viewer from Sydney we had the use of a car so we drove up t...
Royal National Park is Australia's oldest and lay right on out doorstep. It was only a short passage for us from Cronulla but as we motored up the river we left the hustle and bustle behind us with every corner we rounded. Pretty soon we were emerged in na...
Fresh water, or the lack of it is the one thing that means we have to return to civilisation. I dont really want to install a water maker so that mean we need to conserve the water we carry and catch as much as possible when it rains. This video is about c...
Today I am replacing my 22 year old solar panels for brand new ones. How big is the output difference? I was very interested to find out, thats for sure. Its always cool to see how far technology has come.
We also get a new mattress, Marie gets some Italia...
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