Sailing Zatara assist EMOTIONAL REUNION between mother and teenage son separated by covid 19 Ep 111

Sailing Zatara assist emotional reunion between mother and teenage son separated by covid 19.
Separated by the covid 19 pandemic travel restrictions, I have not seen my teenage son for over eighteen months. But that is about to change. Rob and Finn have been secretly conspiring to get Finn out to Western Australia, where we have been sailing. They want it to be a surprise, but it’s going to take a small army to pull it off.
Rob recruited his niece Jillian to pick Finn up from the airport in Perth and get him to his connecting flight to Exmouth where Jordan from @ExpeditionDrenched met him and drove him to Tantabiddi near Ningaloo Reef.
Keith from @SailingZatara picked Finn and Jordan up at the jetty and took them back to his boat where Finn was hidden in plain sight.
It was a huge surprise and a very emotional reunion. Not a dry eye in the house.
Well amongst the adults anyway.

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Music
Natalie Wood – Go on instrumental – Musicbed.com
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Al Goldfield – Dark day in paradise – Musicbed.com
Brooke Annibale – Home again – Musicbed.com
Voyageur – All I wanted instrumental – Musicbed.com

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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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