SAILING community gives back - Ep 60

A huge thank you to those who help keep our boat afloat by supporting our creative process via Patreon. You can be part of the crew for less than the price of a coffee. https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis

Sailing community gives back
COMPETITION TIME watch the vlog to find out how to enter. More information below.
Fiji is a beautiful country with beautiful people. We wanted to give something back to the community at Musket Cove, where we have been anchored for soooo long. When we heard of the beach clean up on the Eastern shores of Malololailai we were into it and it ties in nicely with our competition giveaway on this week’s vlog.
After hanging out for a windy day the boys got themselves down to the beautiful white sand spit at the base of Musket Cove to begin their initiation in to the world of kitesurfing. The sailing community kindly delivered. The crew of Silveray, Kiwi’s Chris and Sarah Kennedy and their five children were incredibly patient as Finn. Declan and Ivan got to grips kite flying while Rob and I got our first experience of dentistry in a foreign land.

Music
Sugar Jesus Goldford – Can’t be happier
Lunar Keller – I don’t know where i’m going
Musket Cove Singers – Traditional song
Josh Garrels – Born again
Lay Ups – Now it begins
David Mumford – Ball & chain

*COMPETITION DETAILS*
To have a shot at winning this pendant, simply comment under this video about what you’ve done to help the worlds waterways.
Entries close Thursday the 10th of July.
Good luck.

Who are we?
In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a 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.

Skip forward to 2014, 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 our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow.
Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. 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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