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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...
FUEL FOR THOUGHT: How to Remove, Fix, and Re-install an Auxiliary Fuel Tank (The Hobbit Hole Part 1)
After spending an unexpected and extended amount of time fixing the hull-to-deck join, bulwark, scuppers and caprail, it’s been nice to move back inside Brilliant II to continue the interior refit. Next on the list has been our “Hobbit Hole”, or as it’s known to the folks outside Middle Earth, the...
Toe-tally Brilliant!! How to Restore the Cap-Rail on a 45-Year-Old Monohull
We did it!! Well almost… The final piece of our hull-to-deck-join puzzle was the teak toe-rail, which, like everything else about this job, needed a drastic fix in order to ‘cap’ it off (pun intended). When we initially removed the rail from the bulwark – which was a process in itself – some of...
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 ...
To Hull & Back! How to Fix a Decimated Hull-to-Deck Join
Let’s just say, that when we started removing the sections of toe-rail around our genoa tracks (Video link here: ▶️ ), we opened a proverbial can of worms 🪱. It was literally a case of “what lies beneath”, with the poor condition of our hull-to-deck join finally revealed. There were cracks, cor...
Back on Track – How to Eliminate Tracks, Cars and Bolts, and Barber Haul Your Sails Instead
In between the sailing adventures ⛵️ and preparing for the odd cyclone or two 🌀, our long overdue boat refit has been continuing to run its course. In fact, pretty much the whole of 2023 was spent on a job we never expected to do 🤦🏼♀️. The interior damage we’ve been gradually fixing up was caus...
Cyclones!! How to Weather Australia’s Storm Season on a Boat
As we seem to be having quite an active cyclone season so far (despite this southern hemisphere summer falling on an 'El Niño', when the chance of cyclones crossing Australia's east coast is supposedly reduced), we decided to share some insights into what it's like to live with t...
SUMMER SAILING | Pros & Cons of OFF-SEASON CRUISING on Australia’s North Queensland Coast
If you could continue to cruise a particular destination "out of season", when the vast majority of seasonal sailors have 'gone with the wind', would you? We have - and that is exactly what the videos in our La Niña Summer Sailing Series have been about. In this final episode of...
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 ...
Rain Check! Monsoon Season Sailing for Dummies 🤪
One of the questions we’re often asked is: “what’s the worst weather you’ve sailed in?” This wasn’t the worst (by far), but it was definitely some of the wettest. The passage this video features was also made more challenging by the fact that our destination was into the wind, and we were racing ...
Cracking the Code | Code Zero Sailing – Three Ways
In case you hadn’t noticed 🤪 we L❤️VE our big red balloon 🎈 To say Code 0’s have revolutionised the way we sail would be an understatement ⛵️ No more wineglass wraps, sock-wrangling or wrestling a gigantic spinnaker down to the deck (if you know, you know). This video is more or less our tribut...
Full Sail Ahead! Snapshots of Boat Life
Welcome to the southbound leg of our Australian La Niña Summer Sailing series. This video is also a 36-hour snapshot of some of the best bits of boat life and cruising in Queensland. It includes: 🥾 How we keep fit while cruising (or in this case, how we almost wipe out two-thirds of the crew on ...
Making Memories – Sailing to Meet a Guinness World Record Holder on the Great Barrier Reef
One of the best things about cruising as a family is spending quality time in some pretty awesome places with the ones you love. As parents, we get so much joy from taking our son Josh to destinations we’ve sailed to previously and experiencing them again through his eyes. Green Island in Far No...
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...
CAY-TRIPPING! Sailing into a Wildlife Documentary on the Great Barrier Reef
The two destinations in this video – Sudbury Cay and Michaelmas Cay – are the reason we set sail up the North Queensland Coast in the middle of a La Niña summer. Our goal was to see if instead of the howling southeasters that have prevailed over the last of Australia’s three consecutive La Niña ye...
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 ...
Fridge Benefits – How to totally transform a 45-year-old galley | Boat Refit Documentary Part 21
Want to know how to make – or re-make – boat fridge lids? Need to replace a galley countertop? Looking to modernise the interior of an old sailing yacht? If the answer to any of these questions is ‘yes’ then this video is for you! The galley on our 1978 Peterson 44, ‘Brilliant II’ hasn’t strayed f...
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...