After looking around for quite some time we finally find a tinny at the right price and go ahead and purchase it. We need an aluminium boat for The Kimberley. ...

The weather has been very windy since we’ve been back in Airlie Beach so we haven’t had the opportunity to move Nutshell and remove and work on the broken gear ...

We are on the last leg of our journey to our home town of Airlie Beach, we can almost see it in the distance, but again, we are becalmed. The tide is against ...

We leave the Great Sandy Strait and begin the sail north to Airlie Beach. We have no engine, and the only forward propulsion that we have is with little Evi, ...

Now that the drama of the Coast Guard rescue has died down, Magnus gets to work fixing Peanut’s carburettor so that we can continue to head north and out of ...

We meet up with viewers and spend a lovely lunchtime sampling ales at the Land & Sea Brewery in Noosa. Then we leave the Duckpond and begin the short ...

We continue our journey through the shallow channels of the Brisbane area and Moreton Bay. It’s a bit scary going under our first power line and not knowing ...

Magnus sets to work making a new plinth for the toilet. Shane helps us out immensely and Magnus hoists him up the mast to install the shiny, new spinnaker ...

It’s time to sand and paint Nutshell’s bottom. She gets lots of TLC from the both of us and Shane, our son and it’s not long before she is looking fabulous! ...

We leave Baie Iré, New Caledonia and make our way to Baie du Carénage in Prony Bay, New Caledonia to try and find the cascale falls, prison ruins, old mines ...

Episode 162 | YouTube Description With Magnus’ Mum on board, we leave Nuka’alofa and head out to the islands for a look around before returning to ...

After our first good night’s sleep and a lull in the blustery weather, we dingy over to Big Mama’s, a lovely yacht club on the motu just off the main island of ...

We spend a quiet week in Bora Bora, The weather is a bit ho hum so we do a few boat jobs and have a wonderful sail in the Bora Bora lagoon. We then check out ...

We take Peanut up a gorgeous little river and then sail to the north island, Tahaa and pop in to a couple of the beautiful bays. The water is deep so there is ...

We leave Tahiti and make the small passage to the nearby beautiful island of Moorea. We check out the sealife and plunge into waters filled with circling ...

We head up to the big smoke, Papetee, on the local bus and manage to get the new part which we need to fix our fridge. As usual, and as is common on boats, a ...

We leave Fakarava and start the supposedly, two day sail to Tahiti, 250 nautical miles away. It ends up being a slow trip and we finally get there about 5 days ...

We check out the Kon Tiki memorial at Raroia and Magnus does a little fishing from Peanut. We do a little 2 day passage to the nearby atoll of Makemo and ...

As the weather sets in for a few days, we poke around and check out Raroia, exploring the charming motus and oas which make up the structure of the atoll. ...

We take a short sail around the corner to the little bay nicknamed Daniel’s Bay. Here we catch up with a local family and buy the delicious grapefruit style ...

We hike from our bay to the next bay over and explore the oldest archaeological site in the Marquesas. Mavi gets a good workout with breathtaking scenery all ...

We check out a lovely little village on Ua Huka and then do a short trip to the nearby island of Nuku Hiva. The scenery is spectacular! Magnus MAGuivers new ...

We arrive at Hiva Oa, Marquesas, French Polynesia, after 25 days at sea. It’s time to check in and have a look around and try to find some fresh produce. We ...

We pass the equator and Wendy becomes are ShelLback, with rum and tributes to Neptune. Wendy makes the landing flags for our arrival and Magnus punches the ...