SAILING into Fiji's Musket Cove - Ep 58

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SAILING into Musket Cove
We are back!
It’s been a while and there have been a fair few miles under the keel since we last met.

We have had trials and tribulations to contend with in the last six months but before we get bogged down in all that we would like to take you back to a time before Covid -19.
We are picking up the story where we left off, sailing into Musket Cove on the South western shores of Fiji.

Its time for the Musket Cove Regatta, an annual week of fun and games to celebrate the beginning of the end of the cruising season in The South Pacific.
Rob and Ivan, and Finn and Declan have teams entered in The Hobie Cat Challenge. It’s a very popular event in the regatta schedule and everyone is keen to show their skill. Unfortunately, the boats have minds of their own, which could make or break a crew.
Come with us if you will to September 2019, to the sun, the sea and the salty air……In a world void of masks, hand sanitizer and fear.

Thank you to Musket Cove Fiji Resort and Chris and Sarah Kennedy for additional footage.

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Sailr – Heartbeat
Helter Skelter – Galop
Analog Heart – With Love
The Weatherspoons – Far from the road
Josh Garrels – Born again
David Mumford – Ball and Chain

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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