Breaching whale while SAILING to protected UNINHABITED ISLAND Ep 101

Breaching whale while sailing to protected uninhabited island Ep 101

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After failing to rouse Rachel in the wee small hours, Rob takes charge of sailing Javelot solo to Lady Musgrave Island, a protected uninhabited island, where we were greeted by a breaching whale.
in the great barrier reef chain, teeming with sea life and sea birds. The boys go back to their roots by sleeping out under the stars on the island but find they don’t get much sleep. Was it the noisy birdlife or Ivan’s scary bedtime story?

Music

Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Sailr – Heartbeat – 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 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.
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