BLUEWATER sailing catamaran CRASH - Ep 86
February 12, 2021 by The Cruising Kiwis | Language: EN Play Time: 00:10:02 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
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BLUEWATER sailing Catamaran CRASH.
We had less than 24 hours left in the marina and all was shaping up nicely when mayhem was let loose in the berth right beside us. A bluewater power cat’s throttle jammed on and in the space of a few seconds it ran amuck in the marina damaging itself and two boats beside it. We were very lucky to narrowly miss out on coming a cropper ourselves!
In other news with a little help from Highfield Pacific boats and Smart Marine we purchased a new Highfield dinghy.
Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Ryan Taubert – Fear not – Musicbed.com
David Mumford – Singing in the rain instrumental
Joybird – Gimme somemore instrumental Musicbed.com
Joybird – Gimme somemore – Musicbed.com
David Mumford – Ball and chain
WHO ARE WE? In 1997, after missing out on his Olympic rowing medal dream, Rob decided to row a tiny seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. His first taste of a blue water ocean crossing.
Skip forward to 2014, and married with three children we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert’s 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel’s non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers.
Our plan? To sail around the world. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed.
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