Sailing to the Top of Australia💨 🌊 Reef Encounters in Stormy Weather S2CH.7 Over the Top
The wind’s howling as we surf waves through a gap in the reef towards a coral cay island. The beginning of our trip up the cape has started off wild, windy and fast with no signs of easing.
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We have just pushed off from what will be our last stop in civilisation for the next 1500 nautical miles. We’ve made our last repairs and provisions, and it’s now time to take the leap and head further north towards a reef scattered and vaguely charted coastline that is, for the most part, uninhabited. Mixed with feelings of excitement, we are wondering what on earth we are doing…but there’s nothing quite like some miserable weather to ease you into life back on the ocean. We head to a small low island where we sit out a blow. However, the weather is showing no signs of improving, so we sail off in the wild conditions, where the wind and swell only increase before we navigate through two islands with outlying reefs. Our charts are completely useless as there is no detail of the area. So we switch to purely eyesight to navigate through coral towards the anchorage. There is nothing pleasant about it.
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00:00 Our next leg begins
01:16 What on earth we are doing?
05:04 Something about a cauliflower
09:26 Stir crazy in 10 metres
10:50 Foul weather: let’s go sailing!
18:56 That was wild!
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From university studies to the Roaring Forties. Join Slim and Soph as they navigate the remote Tasmanian wilderness aboard their Duncanson 34, Nakama, in 2026.
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