BLUEWATER SAILING postponed when crew gets sick - Ep 62

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Bluewater sailing postponed when crew gets sick
It’s a sad day. It was time for us to up anchor and leave the idyllic shores of Fiji. We have been dragging our feet, Vanuatu awaits, but ‘stuff’ keeps keeping us here in at Musket Cove. Now that we are ready to leave the out board motor has seen fit to break down, it doesn’t want to leave either.
Also in this episode, Rob puts his thinking cap on and tinkers with with the carburetor, achieving a stunning out come. Finn and Declan put the pedal to the metal and pull us out of trouble and we postpone our bluewater sail when the crew gets sick and Rob gets the blame for poisoning his crew. And we announce the winner of our Michael Hill gold giveaway.

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Big Serious Muffin Band – Mr T pot
David Mumford – Lover – Creative Commons
Jamie Lono – New Orleans – Music bed
The Weatherspoons – Anthems for a 17 yr old girl
David Mumford – Ball and chain – Creative commons

Who are we?
In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a 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.

Skip forward to 2014, 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 our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow.
Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. 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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