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Ep 183 | Bringing Nutshell Home, Boat Jobs Begin, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
We are on the last leg of our journey to our home town of Airlie Beach, we can almost see it in the distance, but again, we are becalmed. The tide is against us and we can’t afford to keep using Peanut’s motor to get us home or we will run out of fuel!...
Ep 182 | Mother Nature is Against Us! Trying Hard to Sail Home. No Engine! Sailing Nutshell
We leave the Great Sandy Strait and begin the sail north to Airlie Beach. We have no engine, and the only forward propulsion that we have is with little Evi, Peanut’s outboard. We decide to head out to sea and go north, but there are constant northerlie...
Ep 181 | Fixing Peanut’s Carburettor, Making Baggy Wrinkles, Sailing Nutshell
Now that the drama of the Coast Guard rescue has died down, Magnus gets to work fixing Peanut’s carburettor so that we can continue to head north and out of the Great Sandy Strait into safer, more open waters. There’s a little glitch with the carburet...
Ep 179 | Plenty of Beer and an Unexpected Turn for the Worst, Sailing Nutshell
We meet up with viewers and spend a lovely lunchtime sampling ales at the Land & Sea Brewery in Noosa. Then we leave the Duckpond and begin the short passage north to Double Island Point, about 50nm away. But, with little wind and engine issues the go...
Ep 178 | New Sail Battens, Fixing the Autopilot Again, and a Shelter for the Dogs, Sailing Nutshell
We sow the little giveaway seeds which we picked up at Woolworths and begin a garden for Nutshell. The idea is to have a small, live food source onboard when we head up to the Kimberley. Magnus replaces the MaGyvered sail battens will proper ones and also...
Ep 177 | Excellent Beer, Bacchus Brewing Co, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
We catch up with patrons and sample a few fine ales at the Bacchus Brewing Company in Capalaba. We even get a 10/10, the first in Australia! Meet our two new crew members, our old cattle dogs, Chilli and Pepper, who are onboard with us for the sail from t...
Ep 176 | Replacing the Seal in our Lofrans Tigres Windlass, Moreton Bay, Sailing Nutshell, Australia
Magnus spots oil trickling out of our Lofrans Tigres Windlass and after further investigation he finds out that we probably need a new seal and perhaps bearings too. So, we head back into shore early after an unsuccessful fishing trip in the middle of Mor...
Back & Fill
This is a longer version of the Back & Fill section in Episode 10. Many people ask us about techniques for manoeuvring a long keeled boat. Well we're very lucky as we have a very good bow thruster so it's not so difficult for us. But a bow thruster is ...
Ep 175 | We’re Outta Cheese! Whipping up Ricotta in the Galley, Moreton Bay, Sailing Nutshell
We continue our journey through the shallow channels of the Brisbane area and Moreton Bay. It’s a bit scary going under our first power line and not knowing if Nutshell will actually fit! We get new mud crab nets and are eager to put down the pots and ...
Ep 174 | Toilet Attention, a Hoist Up the Mast and the Start of the Sail Around Australia
Magnus sets to work making a new plinth for the toilet. Shane helps us out immensely and Magnus hoists him up the mast to install the shiny, new spinnaker halyards. Nutshell makes a splash in the water and then we begin our journey heading north around A...
Ep 173 | A Black Bottom and a Tidy Chain, Housekeepings at the Boatyard, Sailing Nutshell
It’s time to sand and paint Nutshell’s bottom. She gets lots of TLC from the both of us and Shane, our son and it’s not long before she is looking fabulous! Wendy makes a start on removing the dodgy toilet in readiness for a new base. Magnus works ...
Ep 172 | A Clean Bottom, Hauled Out, Gold Coast, Australia, Sailing Nutshell
After a good night’s sleep at the custom’s dock, we check in to Australia. It’s then time for a quick catch up with family after a 1 year absence. We move anchorages up to the Coomera River and decide at the last minute to haul out at The Boat Work...
Ep 171 | Worst Nightmare! Engine Failure During Night Time Arrival, Gold Coast, Australia
We continue to try and sail to Australia but the weather is definitely against us. After 6 days at sea we have no choice but to motor the last three to four days to make it to Australia. We’ve sailed over 10,000 nm, but as we enter the channel into Aust...
Ep 170 | Help! We Have a Leak in the Boat! New Caledonia to Australia, Sailing Pacific Nutshell
We do our final preparations for leaving New Caledonia and go through the checking out procedure, visiting all of the government officials that we need to. We sail from Noumea and head towards the Gold Coast, Australia. I wake up after my watch to find...