Returning to life on anchor, sailing back out to the tropical islands.
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After a week in the marina restocking Nakama's cupboards with food, installing an int...
Why does everything keep breaking?! ah that's right we live on a boat...
We head from Great Keppel Island where we have had a great week cooking on the fire at Svensons Beach, towards the motherland into the marina, we need a new tender as our good ol' tru...
We're going nuts with coconuts out here man! Let's cook pizza in a sink on a fire...
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We have just left Lady Musgrave Island after a shocking night on anchor,...
Living on a coral island until the wind has other plans for us. Calm one minute, blowing 30 knots with no protection the next...
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We wake again at Lady Musgra...
Sailing our 40 year old sailboat to a remote reef island on the Australian East Coast and we're stoked!
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We wake at 2 am in Burnett Heads to pull up anchor an...
We're just a bunch of young salty scallywag sailors, doing our best to sail on a budget.
We've had a morning full of activities, skurfing, and dune sliding at Fraser Island. With the Hamilton race week cancelled, we figured we'd have our own yacht race to...
DAMN it feels good to be home, we're back aboard our sailboat Nakama, our floating home. We are so grateful to have our home back out on the water where she belongs. What a journey it has been, from broken bones leading to a surgery we feel better than eve...
Our 40 year old sailboat is constantly requiring our love and attention and as soon as Soph can walk again we want to push her out of the marina and get back to adventuring.
We start by servicing the engine, finding a potential oil problem in the saildriv...
A mad border dash to get back to the boat and commandeering a Beneteau, we get back onto the water for the first time in 8 weeks after Soph broke her ankle.
Amid the chaos of yet another COVID-19 outbreak in Australia, and with lockdowns and border closur...
Breaking waves, flooded bilges, nighttime ships. Here are the top 3 of our worst moments we have had sailing, including our worst bar crossing at the notorious Brunswick Heads bar. A bar that sailors normally keep well away from. This is a compilation of t...
Although we have a broken ankle, we want to keep exploring!
We hit the road heading a little bit south to Wooli. A cute little town with not a lot but huge amount of character. We enjoy the beautiful river and explore the surrounding areas and of course, ...
So the surgeons say no sailing for a while... fair call I guess as Soph is now carrying a small hardware selection in her ankle... Just as the way things go, we of-course are now on uni holidays and being stuck on the boat in the marina wasn't our idea of ...
The drama of Soph breaking her ankle is not over yet.
We find out upon another hospital visit that Soph is going to need surgery to put her ankle back together again. For Soph, having never even been to hospital before let alone had a surgery this is big ...
This throws a spanner in the works... We are both pretty upset to get this news.
We are heading into the Marina from Kingfisher Bay, Fraser Island, civilisation! We have run out of food, have washing coming out of our ears, exams coming up and boat jobs t...
If you go through the Sandy Straits without hitting the bottom once then are you even doing the Sandy Straits?
We are up early at Pelican Point and head to Garry's anchorage on Fraser Island for the night. Garrys has always presented us with beautiful cal...
Ah, so this is what Double Island Point is all about, we show you Double Island Point from a monohull, don't worry we let you in on the info so you can also join the fun.
Waking up at beautiful Double Island Point, we take advantage of the bluest water we...
Soph hasn't had a shower in a week so and is going slightly loopy from UNI assignments, so she treats herself to a saucepan shower.
We get up at sparrow fart to leave Mooloolaba but find a blown fuse that runs all of our 2 instruments. Our day plans drast...
Well, it all starts off with a couple of boats directly in front of us upstream collecting one another. What do we do? There is no one on board and it's getting dark.
Where in Mooloolaba on the Sunshine Coast of Australia, anchored in "the pond", a crowd...
Our first time throwing our spinnaker, we don't know whether it is asymmetrical or symmetrical, there is only one way to find out. So up she goes. We're learning by doing and we are doing what we can, how not to throw a spinnaker.
We leave Brisbane, it's ...
We're not on the boat anymore.
A journey into the Australian Hinterland. We introduce you to our home, family, friends and life before sailing took over.
Waking up in the hills we trek down 8km of dirt road to good old Mullumbimby to meet Slims Mum. We f...
Um can I come back aboard now?
We head up through the back channels of the Gold Coast, weaving through houseboats, ducking underneath powerlines and almost crashing another drone. Making it into Moreton Bay, we head to Peel Island before Soph makes Slim g...
This week living aboard a boat has brought us right into the heart of the Gold Coast. Our outboard has broken down, leaving us floating away in the current, luckily we get saved by a fellow yachty but are stuck on the boat in the rain until it's fixed. We ...
Sailing from Yamba to the Gold Coast means passing our hometown, Byron Bay AND! we actually got to see it this time...
The massive Australian floods are settling. After a skate to the Yamba Bar, we are happy to see the crossing conditions have eased and i...
Australia is experiencing a natural disaster flooding event. We do our best to find somewhere safe to anchor as we have seen the unimaginable on the news. Houses, cows and other large debris are floating from upriver in the various river systems along the ...
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