When you're looking at buying a boat, use THE ULTIMATE SMELL Test - your nose. If it smells funky, it is funky. Trust your senses when assessing a potential ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Well, I never thought I’d be able to say we pole danced up the Great Barrier Reef, but in a roundabout way, that is exactly what we did! 🤪 Our latest video is ...
The second part of our La Niña summer sailing series sees us riding the end of a strong wind warning to Fantome Island – an abandoned Leper Colony on the Great ...
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. ...
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’ ...
Sixteen years ago, we dropped anchor in West Bay at Middle Percy Island on Australia’s east coast and left a piece of memorabilia behind. We were far from ...
Maybe it was all the more sweet because we'd downed tools from our boat refit for a while. Or maybe it really was one of those 'one in 10' sails that explain ...
Why do projects on a boat take so long? Because to get to the thing you actually want to work on, you have to fix all of the inter-connected paraphernalia as ...
You've heard of Below Deck - well this is Above Deck - a topside tour of our 1978 Kelly Peterson 44 showing how we have her set up to sail. And talking of ...
Boats! If you don't use them regularly they start to break. Well, maybe the boat itself doesn't break but the onboard systems sure don't like a hiatus. This ...
They say 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' and perhaps that's true of sailing too. Although there is still a lot of work to be done on our 43-year-old ...
Being able to take Brilliant II sailing again - despite still being in the middle of a refit - has been a game-changer for our sanity 🤪😅 It's allowed us to ...
With the gas disconnected and the stove out, this was the time for us to address the galley area around the Force 10 cooktop and oven. We wanted to replace ...
Powering On! How To Turn Replacing A Switch Panel Into A Full Boat Rewire | Refit Documentary Part 8
This is the story of how we managed to turn a simple electrical panel upgrade into another major job we never intended to do 🤯🤪 Needless-to-say, things ...
Hallelujah!!!! We finally glued the last piece of Laminex in place this week 🙌🙌🙌 Strictly speaking it's not the very last piece to go in (because we have a ...
Never mind Tik Tok, we're all about Teak-Tok right now! Either the real deal (for a fibreglass boat we seem to have an inordinate amount of teak on board!), or ...
In this video i leave Philippa in Bonaire and do a solo sail back to Curacao to pick up a new Elvstrom mainsail for Aequus. It's about a 80 mile round trip ...
Welcome to Part 3 of our interior boat refit documentary series, which sees us sweat through the hottest part of the Australian summer heat 🥵 It's also where ...
They say the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. This "one-step-at-a-time" philosophy definitely rings true for anyone working on a boat refit. ...