Following in Sailing La Vagabonde's footsteps and beyond Ep 139

Following in Sailing La Vagabonde’s footsteps and beyond Ep 139

Yes, that’s right, this week we walk over the hallowed ground that uber sailing channel La Vagabonde camped on. True story!
Now don’t get me wrong, Coral Bay is a beautiful place to visit and we have enjoyed our time here immensely but after a month of windy windy weather we are ready for a change of scenery.
We want to continue our journey south, so when a break in the weather arrived we grabbed it, but not before we checked out the interesting work being carried out by marine scientists from The Australian Institute of Marine Science, at their make shift research center in Coral Bay, where project reef song is in full swing.

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Yes, that’s right, we walk over the hallowed ground that uber sailing channel @SailingLaVagabonde camped on. I know right!
Now don’t get me wrong #coral Bay is a beautiful place to visit and we have enjoyed our time here immensely but after a month of windy windy weather we are ready for a change of scenery.
We want to continue our journey south, so when a break in the weather arrived we grabbed it, but not before we checked out the interesting work being carried out by marine scientists from the @AustralianMarineScience , at their make shift research centre in Coral Bay, where project reef song is in full swing.

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In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean). It took six weeks for Rob and rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, to complete winning the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.

Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and his wife 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 their boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn (then 13), Declan (then 11) and Ivan (then 8), in tow. Through trial and error we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
The 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 hope to retrace 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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