WE GOT TO 18 KNOTS!!! wwooooooo! Under time pressure to get Red Jacket to Yamba, we leave in the early hours of the morning and head out into 30 knots. With just 2 reefs in the main, that is all Red needed to get going off waves. We hooned down sizable sea...
We have very exciting news this week. After servicing a winch, cutting Slims hair we finally received something we have been considering to get for a long time, we couldn't be more stoked for all the possibilities it will provide us with. Hopefully this is...
"IS THAT A TUNA?" Soph gasped as she laid eyes on the biggest fish she has ever witnessed being caught.
Coffs harbour still has us hostage with its boat jobs. We attempt to fix our dinghy, twice...
We put our dinghy misery to bed and jump into a tinny fo...
The most enjoying type of sailing is downwind sailing, an upright boat with high speeds *chefs kiss of approval*. We spend the afternoon at Trial bay, making some small repairs in order to sail again in the morning. We wake early and head off, our engine i...
I went to jail on my 23rd birthday. Where did I go so wrong?
We left at sparrow fart out of Coffs Harbour towards Trial Bay. Of course, we don't have any instruments working. All good though, we do it the old fashioned way, counting our knots and checking ...
We have re-evaluated our plans and decided to start looking at our never ending boat list of chores. With majority of the wiring on the boat being absolutely chaotic we attempt to gain some order. In the process of fixing our manual bilge pump we have foun...
The repairs continue. Last week, our engine and autopilot failed on us. Priority number one, the engine. We find that the engine oil is completely contaminated with diesel, not good. We bypass the old lift pump and run a new electric fuel pump and do multi...
Broken bones, broken engine, broken autohelm... we decide to turn back. Thinking we are hitting the ocean again, we don't get very far before our engine conks out on us, the autopilot isn't keeping us on course and Slim is in terrible pain and not able to ...
We finish off 2020 by hopping aboard our mates Beneteau and sail out to an island off the NSW coast. We get up early in attempt to leave Coffs Harbour to head further south, though we wake to the most recent update of the Covid situation in the greater Syd...
We are stuck in a 10.47 metre boat surrounded by heavy rain, damaging winds and just metres from dangerous surf. We got to Coffs Harbour just in time for a huge low-pressure system to grace us with its presence. We realise how small Nakama really is as we ...
Leaving spontaneously in the late afternoon, we set off back into the ocean towards Coffs Harbour. Sailing into the night we are confronted with lightning and some of the strongest winds we have faced on Nakama yet. As the sunrises, we find ourselves off C...
Who said you can't do a law degree from a boat? We rock back up to Nakama after some time away, a couple of things have changed. Slims started his law degree, we got an autohelm and well Soph stepped on a screw? We head over to South Stradbroke Island whil...
Yep, we crashed our drone on Christmas day. A slight interruption into our usual videos, we jump into the future for a Christmas Day special. We hop aboard the Najad 49 in our family and sail out to South Solitary Island where we loose our dear drone. We s...
After crossing the Wide Bay bar and narrowly missing a whale, we are surprised to find a fish on the end of our driftwood contraption. We are on our way south, retracing steps. We sail through the night back into Moreton Bay and then inland through the cha...
With no autopilot but with cyclone season approaching, we make the call to head south for summer. Leaving Great Keppel Island behind we embark on our first overnight voyage on Nakama with an estimated 70 hours at sea hoping to get back to Tangalooma. Thing...
Where to begin, we commandeer an old Toyota Camry on the mainland during a much needed supply run. Then battling a hangover and the seas we beat into the wind back to Keppel Island where we commence a game of cat and mouse with the wind. Our musical chairs...
We ran out of tofu and basically everything else so we are on a mission to catch a fish. Still on Great Keppel Island, Slim is determined to go catch us some dinner. With a combined experience of bugger all, we get lucky and join friends on the beach to sh...
We discover an abandoned resort and more importantly a bar on Great Keppel Island. We wash off the hangover diving the beautiful reefs and have to get creative with our increasingly low supply of food onboard.
Following some adventures and a few days of hiding from the wind. we set of at day break in agitated seas. Navigating our way through big hulks of steel to Hummocky island. A tiny blip on the map we spotted a few days earlier. With not much information we ...
High winds and high seas we surf down waves towards Burnett heads. Following yet another last minute decision we sail back towards the mainland ...leaving Fraser behind us in the moonlight. Upon arrival we a confronted by a pilot boat essentially booting u...
Slim's on a dingo hunt! So back to Fraser we go! Determined to spot on!
We cook up the worlds wobbliest nachos and sleep to the song of the whales echoing through the hull at the astonishingly beautiful Wathumba Creek.
All the while keeping a keen eye o...
Are we sinking? We asked ourselves when we found the bilges again full of salty water. We need to get to the bottom of this before we get to the bottom of the ocean.
We begin the journey up the Sandy Straits and find out why it's called the Sandy Straits when we hit the bottom. Following being attacked by Midgees we push on north. After hours of misguided trekking and a little bit of hitchhiking, we end up at what must...
We've been dying to explore Fraser Island, BUT to get there we must first go through the infamous Wide Bay Bar! This bar is known as the most dangerous bar in Queensland and is something we have been planning and anticipating for months. With a few early s...
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