
Splash Day looms as refit nears completion - Sailing Malaysia
July 22, 2023 by The Cruising Kiwis | Language: EN Play Time: 00:13:50 | SAILING YOUTUBERS

Splash Day looms as refit nears completion – sailing Malaysia
It is with boat work on our mind that we welcome back once more to Rebak Marina, Malaysia, where the maintenance continues. Our sailing catamaran is hauled out, sail drives removed, seals and diaphragms replace, and all boat work that can be carried out completed. Unfortunately other work has been delayed due to two very allusive small bell housing oil seals that Rob has had to source during his visit home to New Zealand. Now he has returned to our live aboard boat to meet our cute little kitten Milo who is determined to win him over with the force of her charm.
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BACK STORY
In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean). It took six weeks for Rob and rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, to complete winning the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and his wife 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 their boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn (then 13), Declan (then 11) and Ivan (then 8), in tow. Through trial and error we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
The 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 hope to retrace 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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