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WAY COOL! How to custom-build a portable fridge/freezer into a cruising yacht
What do you do when there’s no ‘off-the-shelf solution to a problem on your boat? Well, if you’re anything like us, you design and build one yourself! For years, we’ve been dragging around a portable Waeco/Dometic fridge-freezer as an extension to our built-in refrigeration that helps us significa...
We’ve Been Scuppered! How to Fix Damaged Bulwarks, Scuppers, and Deck Gear Attachment Points
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 of these sayings refer to that place you go, when you’re so far down a particular rabbit hole that there’s no turning back and you just have ...
Brilliant Sailing! 11+ Knots on a 45-year-old Kelly Peterson 44
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 leg from Magnetic Island south to the Whitsundays faces practically dead southeast – straight into the prevailing tradewinds. In the summer ...
Cruising in Coral | Top 10 Tips for Navigating the Bommies of the Great Barrier Reef
After being blown away (not literally for once 🤪) by our encounters at Michaelmas Cay (Link to that video is here: 👉🏻 ), we set off to explore more of the Great Barrier Reef in the Cairns region of Far North Queensland. What happened next turned out to be a classic demonstration of the do’s – an...
Pole Dancing! Wing-on-Wing Sailing up the Great Barrier Reef
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 third chapter in a La Niña summer sailing odyssey, documenting what it was like to cruise Australia’s North, and Far North Queensland co...
Make or Break | La Niña Summer Sailing to an Abandoned Leper Colony on the Great Barrier Reef
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 Barrier Reef. En route stuff breaks (or should I say, “ship happens”), we undertake a jury rig, talk safety at sea (from the ‘safety’ of ou...
Gone With the Wind | Sailing North Queensland in a La Niña Summer
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. It’s hot and wet, this is cyclone season, and to really liven things up, this was the third consecutive La Niña year, where on Australia’s ...
Island Life | How to be a part of this iconic sailing destination
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’ destinations on Australia’s east coast and a place where many of us have left a piece of our hearts (or at least a memento to our boats!). L...
Adventure Is Out There | Sailing to a piece of paradise on Australia’s east coast
Sixteen years ago, we dropped anchor in West Bay at Middle Percy Island on Australia’s east coast and left a piece of memorabilia behind. We were far from alone. This anchorage is a sailing Mecca, visited by hundreds of cruising sailors each year, all of whom contribute in some way to the décor ...
Days Like These – Boat Life, Champagne Sailing & Island Adventures
Maybe it was all the more sweet because we'd downed tools from our boat refit for a while. Or maybe it really was one of those 'one in 10' sails that explain why we're out there in the first place. Whatever the reason, this is what a near-perfect 24 hours of boat life looks lik...
Everything AND The Kitchen Sink – How To Retro-Plumb A Boat Galley | Boat Refit Documentary Part 20
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 well 🤪 It's like that song you learned about the human skeleton as a child... (how the "knee bone's connected to the thigh bone...
Above Deck… Topside Boat Tour & Code Zero Sailing | Boat Refit Documentary Part 18
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 sailing, there's some Code Zero action in this video too. Our bright red balloon, built for us by Ullman Sails Whitsunday ( is hands ...
All Systems Go! How To Keep A Boat Running During A Refit | Boat Refit Documentary Part 16
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 is one of the reasons (aside from the fact we'd be sailing all the time if we could) we've been using our boat regul...
How To Finish A Mid-Refit Sail In Style | Boat Refit Documentary Part 12
They say 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' and perhaps that's true of sailing too. Although there is still a lot of work to be done on our 43-year-old Kelly Peterson 44, getting out on her again after so long on the dock has been a poignant lesson in gratitude during these challe...
GONE SAILING! How To Remind Yourself What The Hard Work Is For | Boat Refit Documentary Part 11
Being able to take Brilliant II sailing again - despite still being in the middle of a refit - has been a game-changer for our sanity 🤪😅 It's allowed us to fire up all the systems again (nav equipment / water-maker, etc, etc) after an almost 10 month break, and test out the new modifications w...
How To Go Stainless In The Galley | Boat Refit Documentary Part 9
With the gas disconnected and the stove out, this was the time for us to address the galley area around the Force 10 cooktop and oven. We wanted to replace the old, dark, peeling teak veneer with something lighter, brighter and easier to keep clean. Looking at home and commercial kitchens, we got ...
Powering On! How To Turn Replacing A Switch Panel Into A Full Boat Rewire | Refit Documentary Part 8
This is the story of how we managed to turn a simple electrical panel upgrade into another major job we never intended to do 🤯🤪 Needless-to-say, things evolved (as they do on boats), in this case culminating in (almost) a complete re-wire ⚡️🔌 Our 43-year-old Peterson 44 has now undergone a transfor...
Last of the Laminex – Kicking Boat Refit Goals!! 💃🕺🏻🍾🎆🙌🙌🙌
Hallelujah!!!! We finally glued the last piece of Laminex in place this week 🙌🙌🙌 Strictly speaking it's not the very last piece to go in (because we have a few sliding doors to rebuild and re-clad), but it's the last of the re-cladding of integral furniture and bulkheads. We started this...
Teak-Tok – The boat refit continues…
Never mind Tik Tok, we're all about Teak-Tok right now! Either the real deal (for a fibreglass boat we seem to have an inordinate amount of teak on board!), or the imitation teak Laminex Julian is painstakingly re-cladding all the interior cabinetry with. This is only a fraction of what's...
Sailing Solo on a 57ft Yacht AND we get a new Mainsail.
In this video i leave Philippa in Bonaire and do a solo sail back to Curacao to pick up a new Elvstrom mainsail for Aequus. It's about a 80 mile round trip which gives me a great opportunity to see how our Bavaria C57 can be sailed single handed. When i arrive in Curacao I meet up with our fr...
How to survive an Australian summer of boat work ⛵️🥵
Welcome to Part 3 of our interior boat refit documentary series, which sees us sweat through the hottest part of the Australian summer heat 🥵 It's also where we install our first pieces of laminex, make DIY non-skid for our timberwork, and keep chasing down those deck leaks, with a whole lot of...
How to get started on bringing a boat back to its former glory (Boat Refit Documentary – Part 2
They say the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. This "one-step-at-a-time" philosophy definitely rings true for anyone working on a boat refit. As if we didn't know already, documenting our yacht restoration journey and watching the footage back, has reinforced what ...
Deck Work
We've been taking advantage of the latest weather window to carry on chasing the leaks. This means it's been all about deck work on the good ship Brilliant II in the last 2 weeks. But while the interior may have stalled, the work topsides will be well worth it in the end. Like all boat wo...