SAILING to AUSTRALIA - Ep 73
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Sailing to Australia
Hitting dry land after our seven days of sailing is a mixed blessing. Leaving behind great ocean sailing conditions for land-based creature comforts.
We get elbow deep in our own rubbish as we check in with biosecurity, who want us to throw out some perfectly good food. Rob has a distressing journey through the concrete jungle, as he negotiates the city streets of Brisbane looking for an ATM.
However, a sail into the city center of Brisbane, where they allow boats to anchor, right in the heart of the city, has us falling in love with the place. The run around the river, the wildlife, and the friends with Lamborghinis. It not so bad to exchange Island life with city life every once in a while.
Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
De Joie – Bern river lament – Musicbed.com
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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