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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Let’s just say, that when we started removing the sections of toe-rail around our genoa tracks (Video link here: ▶️ ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...