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There are so many great spots down the East Cost of Australia and the Percy Island group is one of them! Beautiful beaches, some very interesting history and remote. We stay a few days in some different anchorages and then set of on a 100nm sail further so...
Sailing 40 miles offshore in sporty conditions to an amazing atoll called Lady Musgrave Island.
Enjoi!
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Sailing 40 miles offshore in sporty conditions to an amazing atoll called Lady Musgrave Island.
By pure chance we happened to be visiting while 3 different types of Turtles were nesting, what luck! Also the birds were at it, Black Bodies and Shearwater ne...
Jumped in the water at Lady Musgrave Island and straight way came across a friendly turtle to swim with. So rad!
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On a recent passage from Fraser Island to Brisbane we had an amazing Spinnaker run. I might have pushed past my limits though!
First we show you a short glimpse of a few days spent in Maryborough then its all sailing from there.
Enjoy!
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After sailing down the Queensland coast to Brisbane we checked in to Scarborough Marina for a 2 weeks stay through the Christmas break. We were looking forward to a little holiday but it turned out to be a mad busy time. We painted, repaired, upgraded and ...
Leaving the extremely loud and busy Gold Coast we sail the 240nm south to Yamba. Marie gets pretty stressed when we haven't been doing long passages for a while and this time it happened again. She felt scared, seasick and just generally unwell. The trip w...
Our current passage record of 176nm in 24hrs is under threat this week as we sail from Yamba 240nm south to Port Stephens. With a good wind forecast and the strong south flowing current it looked good for a possible 200nm 24hr run. Did we make it?
Also, we...
Buying a Catamaran! Should we do it, is it going to the dark side?
This week we go check out a Crowther Windspeed 39 in Port Stephens, NSW. Its a pretty big decision, to sell our beloved Schiehallion. We give our thought process on this and take you with u...
We decided to buy Trade Runner so in order to do that we needed to sell Schiehallion ASAP. I put together a bunch of images and info and advertised her on a couple of websites. Two days later and she was sold to the first person who looked at her, AMAZING!...
Moving Time!
The process of packing up our old home (Schiehallion) and moving all that stuff to our new home (Trade Runner) is a big one. Accumulated stuff has to be sorted through, junk thrown away. Then everything needs to be transported over, all of by ...
Sailing time!
We leave Nelson Bay and sail south to Newcastle on our new (to us) Catamaran. Its only a short passage and we have chosen a pretty calm day but there are still some butterflies as this is new for both of us!
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Our first overnight passage on our new Catamaran, Trade Runner. Pittwater south to Eden, NSW is about 240 nautical miles and we picked a pretty mellow wind for this one. There is a good south running current about 15 miles offshore so we sailed out there a...
Off we go, across the Bass Straight to Tasmania. We didnt get very far though, first the Jib halyard broke then after fixing that and sailing on one of the job sheets snapped. That was enough, I lost all trust in the running rigging and for the first time ...
Last week we broke some of the rigging while attempting to cross the notorious Bass Straight, this week we replace the entire running rigging with new gear.
A big job but it feels good to now have a solid base.
Enjoi.
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Today we show you our process for planning a sailing passage, in this case to cross the notorious Bass Strait. We are losing patience slowly, being stuck here in Eden for over 3 weeks now but are still cautious as Catamaran is still new and unproven to us....
Eden, you were amazing, thanks! We spent an unplanned month altogether in this beautiful little town and loved it! So many friendly locals, so many beautiful places to visit. As we sailed out of there and headed north to Bermagui we show you just a few sni...
I’ve always loved solo sailing, Sailing alone on a Catamaran is a lot different from a monohull though, this I learnt.
I’m yet to decide if I’ll solo sail my Cat on longer passage though as the danger seems to be much higher.
I solo sailed my mono m...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.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 ...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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