Boat life - Tiger shark swim - Alternative ocean lifestyle Ep 119
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Meet the Hamills: A New Zealand family of five retracing a poignant historical legacy aboard their Fountaine Pajot 43 catamaran, Javelot.
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Boat life – Tiger shark swim – Alternative ocean lifestyle Ep 119
This week sees us arrive on The Ningaloo Coast. Yes you have seen us here, when Finn arrived by surprise and this predates that by a week, but this was our baptism in to the pristine waters that line this area of Western Australia from Amhurst Point up to The Muiron Islands. We dropped the anchor in Bateman Bay a remote area only accessible by boat or 4WD.
We had a few minor boat jobs to take care of with our Knipex tools before we jumped in the water for a swim with a tiger shark. Despite the tiger sharks vicious reputation we were assured that these guys are really teddy bears. What do you think?
Thank you to Keith Whitaker for shark drone footage.
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Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
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BACK STORY
In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, 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, Rob and Rachel purchased Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob’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 18, Declan 16 and Ivan 13, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
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. www.brothernumberone.co.nz
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