SAILING Sailboat Runs AGROUND - Ep 88

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Sailing Sailboat Runs Aground – Ep 88

The good ship Javelot gets a taste of the dirt, or in this case mud, as we sailed down the Coomera River and through to Morten Bay infamous areas where yachties keels form a connection with terra firma but in a good way.
And our dinghy anchor, that we thought was stolen, turns up stashed away in the engine room. Who would have put it there???
We also celebrate Finn’s 18th birthday with one of the two songs he sang with Wha Out (aka Far Out), the band that he won Beat Male Vocalist with at a regional schools bands competition at the tender age of 12. Here are the links to the two songs he sang the day:
Seven Nations Army (White Stripes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSUxpRLF6yA
Runaway (Bruno Mars): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL-9cdvD8oM

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Cricket Farm – Nod and smile
Wha Out – Seven nation army – Cover

WHO ARE WE?
In 1997, after missing out on his Olympic rowing medal dream, 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 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 the kids, Finn 18, Declan 15 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.

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