Cruising the pacific ocean YouTube Videos
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Dodging Fishing Fleets sailing to Indonesia – Sailing SE Asia Ep.56
Hazardous nets and blindingly bright fishing fleets are just part of the challenge of sailing to Indonesia. Sailing at night is not recommended here but sometimes the distances involved leave us no choice. Following four days sailing offshore, the cultural...
Sailing to the top of Australia – Sailing Australia Ep.55
Sailing up to Cape York, the remote northern tip of Australia, dodging reefs and shipping in the trade winds. We follow in Captain Cook's footsteps, stopping at Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef. The hiking and reef snorkeling we found there was so g...
Preparing to Sail in Remote Areas – Sailing Australia Ep.54
We call out the Australian Coast Guard for the first time and get lifted out of the water to check Florence's bottom ready for sailing to Indonesia. The clock ticks away as we try to get all of our work done on Florence in under 72 hours to save an extra d...
WHITSUNDAYS: The world’s BEST sailing destination? – Sailing Australia Ep.53
What is it like to sail the Whitsundays? Before leaving to sail around the world we used to have a book on the best places to sail in the world. The Whitsundays were on the front cover, so we were pretty excited to be sailing our own boat through these bea...
Running from a Storm up Australia’s east coast – Sailing Australia Ep.50
Chased by the threat of a possible cyclone we discover the beauty of Australia's east coast islands from Great Keppel to Middle Percy with some fantastic spinnaker sailing in between. The distances involved meant we had to be up early but got to see some b...
Sailing to the Great Barrier Reef – Sailing Australia Ep.49
Sailing out to Lady Musgrave Island on the Great Barrier Reef was an exciting prospect, our first reef atoll visit since New Caledonia and our first glimpse of the famous Great Barrier Reef. A 55 mile overnight sail to the island brought us to a paradise f...
Is Sydney Harbour worth sailing half way around the world for? – Sailing Australia Ep.48
Sailing our own boat under the Sydney Harbour Bridge has been a bucket list item for us since we set off from England 2.5 years ago at the start of our circumnavigation. Having sailed across two oceans to get here it was a real highlight for us to finally ...
Stormy Sailing South to Sydney – Sailing Australia Ep.47
The weather gave us some challenges making our way down the coast of Australia towards Sydney. After spending a lot of time creeping through the inshore channels, heading out to sea was a bit of a shock to our systems, especially when we were caught in an ...
Boat Tour: Our live aboard bluewater cruiser Florence – Ep.46
What does a live-aboard blue water cruiser look like? We have had lots of requests to see more of our yacht 'Florence', so come aboard and have a look around. We have lived aboard her for 3 years now, sailing double handed across 2 Oceans on our around the...
Sailing Moreton Bay – Sailing Australia Ep.45
Florence plowed through a smack of jellyfish we entered Moreton bay but with poor weather forecast we went and hid in a marina. This allowed us to meet up with a couple who follow our channel and they very kindly lent us their car so we could make the most...
Engine failure in the Great Sandy Straits, Australia – Sailing Australia Ep.44
Experiencing engine failure twice and coming face to face with a wild Dingo on Fraser Island. The life of a cruising sailor can be very varied, having to fix an engine issue in the middle of a massive thunder and lightning storm is not our favourite occupa...
Completing our voyage across the Worlds Largest Ocean – Sailing the Pacific Ep.43
This 6 day offshore passage from New Caledonia to Australia completed our 12000 mile journey across the south pacific, the worlds largest ocean. Despite ripping our mainsail and having to come up with an alternative sail plan, we finally reach Australia, t...
Escaping the Rat Race Sailing New Caledonia – Sailing the Pacific Ep.42
We escape from the city and explore the southern lagoon of New Caledonia's main island, enjoy some great sailing, stunning anchorages and find a master of disguise hiding in the reef. It is going to be sad to leave all these beautiful islands behind as we ...
Is Ocean Sailing all Danger Storms and Drama? – Sailing the Pacific Ep.41
After being held up in Vanuatu by the earliest cyclone ever, we head off in less than optimum conditions to sail the ocean passage to New Caledonia. Along the way we swim with sharks and re-find our love of sailing on the open ocean. We are a British coup...