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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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 ...
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’ ...
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 ...
I guess now we can add working with Corian to our ever-growing list of boat refit skills 🤪 If you've never used it before (and we hadn't), Corian is composed ...
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 ...
If you're interested in how to retro-fit a headliner - especially in an older style boat where there are timber beams involved, then this video is for you! ...
As anyone with a boat knows only too well, it's not all beer and skittles - and in our case there's the large remainder of a refit looming 🤪 Although we've ...
Join us for the completion of the last boat work project for the year! And what a year it's been. In 2021 we have: ✅ Stripped, sanded and re-varnished the ...