Dinghy disappears from the back of our boat - Sailing life Ep 110

Dinghy disappears from the back of our boat – Sailing life Ep 110

This weeks action takes place at Airlie Beach, gateway to the Whitsundays.

It’s a great harbour anchorage but being a tourist town it is known for having a few unsavory characters hanging around. We were warned that dinghies do go missing from time to time, never to be seen again. So when ours disappeared from the back of the boat we expected the worst.
After a fruitless search, that night for it we contacted the police, sent out alerts to the anchorage and settled down to a restless night sleep.
The following morning Rob and our friend Richard set out again to find her.

When we weren’t worrying about the dinghy, Declan and Ivan were making friends with the local kids.
Our hansom, helpful Declan had a young female friend whom he was spending a lot of time with. Unfortunately it made him quite grumpy when we asked him to do anything with us, as you will see.

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
By the coast – I’ll get you home instrumental – Musicbed.com
David Mumford – Ball and Chain

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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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