In our last few days at the boat yard, Troy builds a new fuel tank and explains our proposed modified fuel system. We paint Mirrool's anti-foul, install the ...
We are in paradise Bella shows us some of her survival skills and we get more amazing waves, Fish land on our deck and we leave in search of more places just ...
Help keep the adventures coming! http://www.patreon.com/sailingsvsarean After diving amongst reef sharks we sail off to the sound of dolphins riding against ...
This week on Sailing Catalpa we leave Jakarta and arrive at the Volcano Krakatau in the Java Sea, see a turtle laying her eggs and replace a dodgy fix up on ...
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We continue on sailing to Jakarta in Indonesia, have more close encounters with a tug boat, a MOB alarm is set off nearby and we arrive to meet up with our ...
In the first of our refit series, we get started on our two main priorities for Mirrool's refit namely, preparing the hull for a new coat of anti-foul and a ...
In our last episode of our Far North Queensland series, we sail from Magnetic Island to Townsville to haul out Mirrool. Featuring: 6:58 Twilight Tuna under ...
Join us this week as we visit Broadhurst Reef on the Great Barrier Reef. The visibility was great and we were thrilled to see the corals in such good ...
Join us as we explore the beautiful Magnetic Island off the coast of Townsville in Queensland. We find Koala bears, visit the World War II anti-shipping forts ...
This week on Sailing Catalpa we sail from the island Sumbawa to Lombok do some surfing, dodge lots of floating things, Lee and I celebrate being married for 14 ...
We say goodbye to Hinchinbrook Island and head south to the Palm Isles. Once there we feast on coconuts, explore the fringing coral reef and look for ...
This week on Sailing Catalpa we surprise Lee with Fathers Day...we continue our travels along Sumbawa and arrive at some famous surf breaks, plus we visit a ...
Entering the creek in beautiful Zoe Bay we run afoul of a sandbar. We talk you through what we did to come off the sandbar including the problems we ...
This week we discover a fuel blockage motoring to Cardwell in a glass out. We sail down the Hinchinbrook Channel past Lucinda Jetty and decide to make our way ...
Join us as we continue to explore the beautiful Holmes Reef in the Coral Sea. We discuss our dive in last week's episode, discover a lost tuna long line, ...
This episode there is a lot of us underwater so if you like diving and checking out sea life then your going to love this one ;-) We also just are living our ...
After keeping busy with boat chores in Cairns we decide to take a break and be tourists for a few days exploring the World Heritage Rain Forest around Kuranda. ...
In this episode we make the necessary upgrades to our dinghy in the process learning a lot about working with epoxy and fibre glass from our new friend David ...
Our plans to haul out while house sitting in Cairns were dashed but we keep ourselves busy with plenty of other jobs that we need to do to get Mirrool ship ...
Keen for a swim, we take a break from beating to windward and sail on a reach to the famous dive site on the Great Barrier Reef, the Cod Hole, to discover that ...
In this episode, we leave Tijou Reef and continue south to Cairns. On our way, we experience some more wild weather and discover that in some conditions our ...
We say goodbye to Margaret Bay and continue sailing south down the Queensland coast against the trade winds. Troy discusses the best way to bleed tuna, why it ...
In this episode of Free Range Sailing we start the journey against the trade-winds down to Cairns some 600 nautical miles south. We say goodbye to Badu and ...