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SERIES THREE - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
Our trip up around and into Indonesia starts in earnest as our new crew finally join Our Dreamtime at Port Douglas and we set sail North. Our first stop is the glorious Mackay Reef
with its beautiful sand c...
4th leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
We sailed from Cairns to the marina at Yorky’s Knob for a week of final preparations and boat jobs to ready Our Dreamtime for the offshore passage across to Indonesia ahead. The to do list was long ...
2nd leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
We leave beautiful Fitzroy Island with a spirited sail but short sail to Trinity Inlet at Cairns where we share the anchorage with huge cruise liners and 100+ million dollars Superyachts.
While our g...
The sailing in the Gulf Stream continues to deliver all the weather you can imagine, except what we need to sail! The boat and our moral continues to take a beating at the endless uncomfortable motion of the sailboat.
Against all the odds we manage to sti...
No longer stuck at anchor. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we test our newly installed prop by going out for a motor in Banderas Bay. After 3 months of repairs, it feels good to get Sitka moving again and in an operational state. @sailingavocet cap...
Check the weather, prepare the boat and pull up the anchor...We depart Grand Bahama with an incredible weather window to sail the 500nm to Wrightsville, NC. All appears to be going great until it doesn't!
No matter how well you prepare, sometimes mother ...
3rd leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
After sitting out a week of high winds and driving rain at Clump Point we loved getting off the boat and exploring beautiful Mission Beach. Then the weather turned perfect to head for the outer reefs ...
Sailing, weather forecasts, passage planning and Extreme Currents...we are frustrated by them all in this weeks episode. Planning a multi-day passage with unpredictable weather forecasts and extreme currents is proving to be one of our most challenging yet...
Cruising fulltime on a sailboat can be interesting. You find yourself anchored in paradise, but the wind forces you to move. Raising anchor, sailing out of anchorages just to have the wind die. Drifting and motoring for a while, then the wind starts pick...
We continue to try and work our way north through The Bahamas, but the weather continues to challenge us at every step.
Cleaning your hull, inspecting damage or simply exploring underwater just got a lot easier as we test out the worlds best tankless dive...
2nd leg of Series 3 - UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA
After a short stop at beautiful Dunk Island, we run to nearby Clump Point at Mission Beach to take shelter from nearly a week of atrocious strong winds and heavy rain. We are boat bound for days keepi...
No matter how much preventative maintenance you do, sometimes things just break. In this weeks episode, it's our engine that seems to be giving us problems. A string of issues force us to anchor after only a few minutes.
Also, we unveil some huge news tha...
Sailing is often a mixed bag of calculated decisions, planning, unforeseen circumstances and blind luck. And sometimes, no matter how much you prepare, your gut is what you rely on the most.
We make perhaps one of the hardest decisions in our 4.5 years o...
UP, AROUND & INTO INDONESIA – SERIES THREE BEGINS
We have finally taken that first small step that every epic journey begins with. We leave Breakwater Marina in Townsville and sail to Orpheus Island for our first stop on a trip planned to take us all...
We are FORCED into an UNKNOWN Anchorage at NIGHT in an ELECTRICAL STORM and it's possibly the scariest and most dangerous thing we have had to do. We have never been to the anchorage, we have no moonlight and there are hazards everywhere. But we work throu...
The anchorage in La Paz Mexico is notorious for strong currents and apposing winds, commonly known as the LaPaz Waltz. Many boats drag during strong winds and tidal shifts here.
Anchoring in strong tidal currents can be a challenge, but it's essential fo...
The time had come. SV Our Dreamtime had not been out of the water since pre-covid days so we expected a tough week’s work when she was hauled out at Townsville’s Rosshaven Marina and that’s pretty much what we got in 32-34c heat. Having said that, we...
In this episode we start a new chapter of our journey so after the detour around the Atlantic islands we finally start sailing east towards the Mediterranean Sea but first we got to get back to the boat from our hostel in Sweden and fix our watermaker and ...
With a good weather window, we leave Gibraltar just before there is a thunder storm. As we are leaving we can see the clouds growing over the top of the rock. Getting in to Fuengirola later on in the afternoon we have a bit of a swell running which makes f...
In this video, we sail to a private anchorage, we catch a fish for dinner along the way, enjoy a sunset dinner, and break our anchor windlass.
We start by raising anchor, cleaning off all the eel grass, and set out on a 20 nautical mile sail to a private ...
We are sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in our sailboat. Join us this week on Sailing SV CUBA as we complete our 18 days at sea Ocean passage to the Caribbean and we finally sail into the busiest anchorage we have ever seen.
Join us on our biggest Sailin...
As we make final preparations on our 1982 Whitby 42 ketch, SV Our Dreamtime, for international cruising, one of the biggest issues we face is electrical power. On top of essential lighting, instruments, radios, watermaker, refrigeration, pumps, fans etc we...
Can I sail this boat single handed? We are about to cross the Atlantic Ocean for the first time AND it will be only the two of us on our 46ft sailboat.
We will be sailing non-stop for over 2 weeks. Best to practice single hand tacking a few more times bef...
Leaving your boat in the middle of the cyclone zone over summer may seem fool hardy but after doing our research into the frequency of catastrophic storm events and inspecting a range of facilities on the coast, we decided to do just that and secured SV Ou...
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