Sailing boat to 4WD road trip to see a man about a dog Ep 123

Sailing boat to 4WD road trip to see a man about a dog – Ep 123

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Dampier is a small isolated mining town in the north of Western Australia. At first sight there’s not much to do here, but dig a little and there are lots of stories to tell about the characters that travelled from far and wide as pioneers when the mines and harbour first opened in the 1960’s.
Many of these people were men, they were single and they were lonely. Nothing quite takes the bite out of being alone than a pet. Step forward Red Dog, who adopted the people of Dampier touching their hearts and uniting the community.

Music
Secret Nation – Everything
Secret Nation – Everything instrumental
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Gracie and Rachel – Ally
Gracie and Rachel – Ally instrumental
By the coast – I’ll get you home instrumental

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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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