The JOY of SAILING barring incident - Doh!! Ep 96

The JOY of SAILING barring incident – Doh!! Ep

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The dichotomy of bluewater sailing Ep 96

We are leaving Tin Can Bay for the Sandy Straits between mainland Queensland and Fraser Island.
This route protects sailors from the ocean swell, providing a smooth surface for a boats hull to glide through. With the wind at our back Rob waxes lyrical about the joys of sailing. However, the words are hardly out of his mouth when the frustrations that accompany sailing rear their ugly head, torn sails and broken equipment. It all ends happily when we pull out our other asymmetrical spinnaker and the new sock balanced with speed makes the world a better place once more.
The End.

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Jamie Lono – Prove it – Musicbed.com
Brooke Annibale – Home again instrumental – Musicbed.com
David Mumford – Ball and chain

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 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.
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