Live and let live, Surfing with GREAT WHITES, sailing Western Australia Ep 114

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Sailing Western Australia CATCH CLEAN COOK – Ep 114

Todays vlog features the outtakes we couldn’t fit into Ep 113
We discover a left hand break where Declan and Dan do a spot of surfing, Finn organizes our pantry when he Marie Kondo’s the kitchen and we catch ourselves the biggest squid we have ever seen, but release it back to the sea. When we catch a much smaller squid he makes his presence felt when Ivan jiggles the squid hook. The wee fella inks but it’s Dan who comes of worst.

Music
Beleaf – Ain’t this life worth it – 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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