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DIY sailboat rigging, save thousands! (Learning By Doing Ep224)
Every sailboat needs new standing rigging at some stage. Mine was over 20 years old so I decided to do most of the work myself. In this video I go through the whole job and show you how I went about this very important job. You shouldn't be scared of this ...
BIG NEWS! Its a Lifechanger. (Learning By Doing Ep223)
We have some pretty big news to share with you guys in this weeks video. To celebrate we take a few days off the boat and for the first time in nearly a year sleep on land. Thanks to Andre, a kind viewer from Sydney we had the use of a car so we drove up t...
Its the WEEKEND and the boat jobs can wait. (Learning By Doing Ep222)
Royal National Park is Australia's oldest and lay right on out doorstep. It was only a short passage for us from Cronulla but as we motored up the river we left the hustle and bustle behind us with every corner we rounded. Pretty soon we were emerged in na...
Marie enjoys a steaming hot shower (Learning By Doing Ep221)
Fresh water, or the lack of it is the one thing that means we have to return to civilisation. I dont really want to install a water maker so that mean we need to conserve the water we carry and catch as much as possible when it rains. This video is about c...
New Solar panels are better than old, HOW MUCH??(Learning By Doing Ep220)
Today I am replacing my 22 year old solar panels for brand new ones. How big is the output difference? I was very interested to find out, thats for sure. Its always cool to see how far technology has come. We also get a new mattress, Marie gets some Italia...
Solo Sailing Catamaran’s, good idea or bad? (Learning By Doing Ep219)
I’ve always loved solo sailing, Sailing alone on a Catamaran is a lot different from a monohull though, this I learnt. I’m yet to decide if I’ll solo sail my Cat on longer passage though as the danger seems to be much higher. I solo sailed my mono m...
Eden, the little paradise down south. (Learning By Doing Ep218)
Eden, you were amazing, thanks! We spent an unplanned month altogether in this beautiful little town and loved it! So many friendly locals, so many beautiful places to visit. As we sailed out of there and headed north to Bermagui we show you just a few sni...
Passage Planning for Bass Strait. (Learning By Doing Ep217)
Today we show you our process for planning a sailing passage, in this case to cross the notorious Bass Strait. We are losing patience slowly, being stuck here in Eden for over 3 weeks now but are still cautious as Catamaran is still new and unproven to us....
New Running Rigging for our Catamaran. (Learning By Doing Ep216)
Last week we broke some of the rigging while attempting to cross the notorious Bass Straight, this week we replace the entire running rigging with new gear. A big job but it feels good to now have a solid base. Enjoi. Insta360 discount code: https://www.i...
Bass Straight passage FAILURE. (Learning By Doing Ep215)
Off we go, across the Bass Straight to Tasmania. We didnt get very far though, first the Jib halyard broke then after fixing that and sailing on one of the job sheets snapped. That was enough, I lost all trust in the running rigging and for the first time ...
200+ miles on our first real passage. Too easy! (Learning By Doing Ep214)
Our first overnight passage on our new Catamaran, Trade Runner. Pittwater south to Eden, NSW is about 240 nautical miles and we picked a pretty mellow wind for this one. There is a good south running current about 15 miles offshore so we sailed out there a...
1st Passage on our new Boat! (Learning By Doing Ep213)
Sailing time! We leave Nelson Bay and sail south to Newcastle on our new (to us) Catamaran. Its only a short passage and we have chosen a pretty calm day but there are still some butterflies as this is new for both of us! Enjoy! ⚓️Join our CREW⚓️ ...
Moving aboard our new Boat! (Learning By Doing Ep212)
Moving Time! The process of packing up our old home (Schiehallion) and moving all that stuff to our new home (Trade Runner) is a big one. Accumulated stuff has to be sorted through, junk thrown away. Then everything needs to be transported over, all of by ...
WHAT?? Our boat Sold in 2 DAYS! 😱 (Learning By Doing Ep211)
We decided to buy Trade Runner so in order to do that we needed to sell Schiehallion ASAP. I put together a bunch of images and info and advertised her on a couple of websites. Two days later and she was sold to the first person who looked at her, AMAZING!...