The Sailing Adventures of Brilliant II
Join the Smallwoods - Sharon, Julian, Josh, and Pepe (the Blue Burmese) - aboard Sailing Vessel Brilliant II. Brilliant II is a Kelly Peterson 44, built in 1978. Julian and Sharon bought the boat in Phuket, Thailand, in 2005, and sailed her slowly back to Sydney, Australia. Over the next five years they lived aboard and sailed the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland. They are currently based in the Whitsundays, Queensland, where Josh was born in 2010. In 2021 they began a refit of the water-damaged interior (which had needed doing since the start!), while continuing to sail on mini-adventures north and south of their home port. Sharon is a photojournalist by trade, but realising YouTube is a thing has started creating videos too. You can also follow their adventures on Instagram at @shazatsea.
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Join the Smallwoods - Sharon, Julian, Josh, and Pepe (the Blue Burmese) - aboard Sailing Vessel Brilliant II.
Brilliant II is a Kelly Peterson 44, built in 1978.
Julian and Sharon bought the boat in Phuket, Thailand, in 2005, and sailed her slowly back to Sydney, Australia.
Over the next five years they lived aboard and sailed the coasts of New South Wales and Queensland.
They are currently based in the Whitsundays, Queensland, where Josh was born in 2010.
In 2021 they began a refit of the water-damaged interior (which had needed doing since the start!), while continuing to sail on mini-adventures north and south of their home port.
Sharon is a photojournalist by trade, but realising YouTube is a thing has started creating videos too.
You can also follow their adventures on Instagram at @shazatsea.
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Pardey Time at the Whitsunday Sailing Club!
As soon I discovered that the inimitable Lin Pardey would be sharing her story at our local Whitsunday Sailing Club, the first thing I did was ensure my whole family and I were booked in. Like many cruising sailors, I'm a Pardey fan, so the chance to see...
WAY COOL! How to custom-build a portable fridge/freezer into a cruising yacht
What do you do when there’s no ‘off-the-shelf solution to a problem on your boat? Well, if you’re anything like us, you design and build one yourself! For years, we’ve been dragging around a portable Waeco/Dometic fridge-freezer as an extension t...
FUEL FOR THOUGHT: How to Remove, Fix, and Re-install an Auxiliary Fuel Tank (The Hobbit Hole Part 1)
After spending an unexpected and extended amount of time fixing the hull-to-deck join, bulwark, scuppers and caprail, it’s been nice to move back inside Brilliant II to continue the interior refit. Next on the list has been our “Hobbit Hole”, or as...
Toe-tally Brilliant!! How to Restore the Cap-Rail on a 45-Year-Old Monohull
We did it!! Well almost… The final piece of our hull-to-deck-join puzzle was the teak toe-rail, which, like everything else about this job, needed a drastic fix in order to ‘cap’ it off (pun intended). When we initially removed the rail from the...
We’ve Been Scuppered! How to Fix Damaged Bulwarks, Scuppers, and Deck Gear Attachment Points
In the words of the inimitable Lady Gaga: “Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger”. Or as we Brits would say: “In for a penny, in for a pound”. Both of these sayings refer to that place you go, when you’re so far down a particular rabbi...
To Hull & Back! How to Fix a Decimated Hull-to-Deck Join
Let’s just say, that when we started removing the sections of toe-rail around our genoa tracks (Video link here: ▶️ https://youtu.be/KOL_bHUZGv0?si=tq8QyKm0SoLY0CuH ), we opened a proverbial can of worms 🪱. It was literally a case of “what lie...
Back on Track – How to Eliminate Tracks, Cars and Bolts, and Barber Haul Your Sails Instead
In between the sailing adventures ⛵️ and preparing for the odd cyclone or two 🌀, our long overdue boat refit has been continuing to run its course. In fact, pretty much the whole of 2023 was spent on a job we never expected to do 🤦🏼♀️...
Cyclones!! How to Weather Australia’s Storm Season on a Boat
As we seem to be having quite an active cyclone season so far (despite this southern hemisphere summer falling on an 'El Niño', when the chance of cyclones crossing Australia's east coast is supposedly reduced), we decided to share some insights into what...
And so it begins…. Cyclone prepping for TC Kirrily
There’s some wild weather on the way 💨🌀💨🌀
SUMMER SAILING | Pros & Cons of OFF-SEASON CRUISING on Australia’s North Queensland Coast
If you could continue to cruise a particular destination "out of season", when the vast majority of seasonal sailors have 'gone with the wind', would you? We have - and that is exactly what the videos in our La Niña Summer Sailing Series have been about....
Brilliant Sailing! 11+ Knots on a 45-year-old Kelly Peterson 44
Some sails are worth the wait, and this was one of them. Ironically, it was a passage we’d been dreading. If you’re cruising down the Queensland coast, the leg from Magnetic Island south to the Whitsundays faces practically dead southeast – straigh...
Rain Check! Monsoon Season Sailing for Dummies 🤪
One of the questions we’re often asked is: “what’s the worst weather you’ve sailed in?” This wasn’t the worst (by far), but it was definitely some of the wettest. The passage this video features was also made more challenging by the fact tha...
Cracking the Code | Code Zero Sailing – Three Ways
In case you hadn’t noticed 🤪 we L❤️VE our big red balloon 🎈 To say Code 0’s have revolutionised the way we sail would be an understatement ⛵️ No more wineglass wraps, sock-wrangling or wrestling a gigantic spinnaker down to the deck (i...
Full Sail Ahead! Snapshots of Boat Life
Welcome to the southbound leg of our Australian La Niña Summer Sailing series. This video is also a 36-hour snapshot of some of the best bits of boat life and cruising in Queensland. It includes: 🥾 How we keep fit while cruising (or in this case, h...
Making Memories – Sailing to Meet a Guinness World Record Holder on the Great Barrier Reef
One of the best things about cruising as a family is spending quality time in some pretty awesome places with the ones you love. As parents, we get so much joy from taking our son Josh to destinations we’ve sailed to previously and experiencing them ag...
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After being blown away (not literally for once 🤪) by our encounters at Michaelmas Cay (Link to that video is here: 👉🏻 https://youtu.be/1rTX2_VYq_U ), we set off to explore more of the Great Barrier Reef in the Cairns region of Far North Queenslan...
CAY-TRIPPING! Sailing into a Wildlife Documentary on the Great Barrier Reef
The two destinations in this video – Sudbury Cay and Michaelmas Cay – are the reason we set sail up the North Queensland Coast in the middle of a La Niña summer. Our goal was to see if instead of the howling southeasters that have prevailed over the...
Pole Dancing! Wing-on-Wing Sailing up the Great Barrier Reef
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This summer we've sailed Australia’s North and Far North Queensland coasts. For context, this is traditionally not the time of year to take this route. It’s hot and wet, this is cyclone season, and to really liven things up, this was the third cons...
Fridge Benefits – How to totally transform a 45-year-old galley | Boat Refit Documentary Part 21
Want to know how to make – or re-make – boat fridge lids? Need to replace a galley countertop? Looking to modernise the interior of an old sailing yacht? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’ then this video is for you! The galley on o...
Island Life | How to be a part of this iconic sailing destination
Famous for its iconic A-Frame shack and a long-standing tradition of hospitality afforded to cruising sailors, Middle Percy Island is one of those ‘must-see’ destinations on Australia’s east coast and a place where many of us have left a piece of our...