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Sailing Sulawesi: Our first impressions. Episode 263
Join Vernon, Eli, and Mari on an unforgettable adventure as they set sail across Sulawesi, Indonesia! In this gripping episode, follow along with their authentic first experiences and cultural interactions that truly make this a once-in-a-lifetime journey ...
Mastering Anchoring In Tight Spots: Our Top Techniques! Episode 262
Mastering Anchoring In Tight Spots: Our Top Techniques! - Sailing Learning By Doing
Sailing remote Indonesia. Epic Sailing, Epic Waterfall. Ep 259
Embark on an unforgettable journey with this adventurous family as they sail to remote Indonesia and explore the breathtaking waterfall at Moo Island.
Boat Repairs: Repairing Catamaran Trampolines in paradise. Ep254
Owning a Sailboat means WORK. The Trampolines on Trade Runner were getting a bit dangerous but it was a job Id been putting off as it was not going to be easy. We found ourselves in a great spot to finally do it thoughts there was an Aluminium welder nearb...
Sailing legend and Rocna inventor Peter Smith.
#sailing #Learningbydoing #sailor Sailing is this mans passion and Sailing is what he's done, a lot of it! Peter Smith has sailed over 350,000 miles in the boat he designed and built himself. For a lot of these miles he has been sailing in the high latitu...
HUGE NEWS From France (Learning By Doing Live)
#france #Learningbydoing #sailing If you enjoy our videos and appreciate the effort that goes into making them then perhaps you would be interested in supporting their production. A little goes a long way Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SailingLearn...
Cape York, Sailing around the TOP of Australia. Learning By Doing Ep245
#sailing #offgrid #capeyork Sailing 2500 miles up the East coast of Australia I finally make it to Cape York, the northern most point on the continent. Its been a trek, with a destroyed mainsail and a collision at sea but also some amazing sailing days...
The Millionaire Castaway on Restoration Island. Learning By Doing Ep244
#sailing #drone #castaway Get your Learning By Doing merch here!!! https://teespring.com/stores/learningbydoing Being a castaway on a tropical island sounds pretty romantic right? Well Dave and his partner at the time cast themselves away on Restorati...
France Catchup. LIVE#1.
#Indonesia #Learningbydoing #sailing If you enjoy our videos and appreciate the effort that goes into making them then perhaps you would be interested in supporting their production. A little goes a long way Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SailingLea...
Sailing in FORCE 10 or?? Learning By Doing Ep243
#sailing #drone #dronephotography Wow, now that was an amazing day! Up before dawn to go check out the Yintayin rock shelter on Stanley Island, traditional homeland of the Aba Yalgayi. They lived around this area for at least 6000 years and got moved aw...
Lizard Island, tropical gem + We nearly hit a WHALE! Ep242
#sailing #queensland #LizardIsland This week we sail from Cooktown to Lizard Island, a short passage of 55nm. Our first upwind passage since fixing the boat though and I'm interested to see if the repaired Daggerboard will hold. We had 20-25kts all day and...
Wet & Wild. Sailing to Cooktown. Ep 241
#sailing #queensland #cooktown Double Rainbows, wind, rain, squalls, rope in the propeller, new top speed, this passage had it all and we loved it all. You feel alive when your heart is beating. Cairns to an overnight anchorage at the Low-Isles then on to ...
Better than ever! Speedy sailing to Cairns. Ep 240
Trade Runner is back in the water and better than ever! After a week on the hard stand repairing the collision damage we get going north again and we are ripping. My new crew member John is pretty excited and I'm loving the strong downwind sailing too. Ne...
The DAMAGE was NOT as bad as I thought!
@Collision @propspeed @Australia Boat yards are never fun but when its an unplanned and unwanted haul out its even less enjoyable. Because Trade Runner was damaged in a collision this work needed to be done before I could continue on to Indonesia. I wa...
CRASH! Are we sinking? Collision at sea. Ep 238
Go to http://drinkag1.com/sailinglearning to get a 1-year supply of Vit D3+K2 and 5 travel packs FREE with your first purchase! Bad news this week! Leaving AIrlie Beach we got run into by a charter Catamaran. Trade Runner sustained some damage from the im...
3 EPIC sailing days ! Mad Dash is MOVING ! Ep 237
From Mid Percy Island to AIrlie Beach, we had 3 amazing days of sailing, hard to beat really. Good solid winds, warm weather, other boats to race and great company. Trade Runner really is in her stride now and I feel like I have a good grip on her strength...
Passage planning, Spinnaker sailing + meeting “New Kids on the Dock” Ep236
@Thenewkidsonthedock Trade Runner came with an old Spinnaker and today I got it out for the first time. She's an absolute beauty! I also meet up with Josh & Phoebe from the YT channel "New kids on the dock". They come over to chat about passage planni...
New Mainsail and Boat Mods
My new Mainsail was waiting for me at Keppel Bay Marina. Made in 7 days then shipped up from the Gold Coast this was a super quick turn around. Also waiting there was my new Raymarine chart plotter and some engine parts. Weewah left the boat here, he was p...
How to enter a coral Atoll + MARIE update. Ep234
Leaving Fraser Island behind at 2am we sail the 80nm north to Lady Musgrave. This is a tiny island nestled in a huge coral Atoll with only a single entry/exit. Timing the your arrival is key as the current on an outgoing tide can be anywhere from 3-6kts. W...
What will we discover today? Fraser Island – NEW Insta360X3
#insta360 #insta360x3 #fraserisland This week we explore the north end of the Worlds biggest sand island, K'gari or Fraser Island. I also have a new camera to show you guys, its the X3, a new model from Insta360. I use it extensively throughout this video...
What more can go wrong! Caught up in Fishing gear = 3am swim! Ep232
Mad Dash from Brisbane to Double Island point. We left at 1am Scarborough marina and motored out of Moreton Bay. Along the front of Bribie Island we the port side propellor and rudder got found in some fishing gear wish meant I had to go over the side to c...
Highfield Ultralight 310, our new daily driver. Ep231
Highfield boats are know worldwide as a leading manufacturer of inflatable tenders. We now have one and are super stoked, she fits on Trade Runner like a glove and we are now buzzing round the bay in style. We went for the UL310 model as it was the biggest...
The HITS keep coming. Mad Dash No.4 Gold Coast – Brisbane. Ep230
Leg No.4 from the Gold Coast to Brisbane was a very calm and slow passage. We are in Queensland now and everything is calmer here. The route is all in-land waterways and we had to motor sail the entire way. Still, I managed to sink my drone in Moreton Bay ...
I DESTROYED my Mainsail! Mad Dash No.3 Coffs Harbour-Gold Coast. Ep229
Leg No.3 from Coffs Harbour to the Gold Coast was a wild one! We left Coffs under a black sky with favourable winds. Because of exit and entry timing I'd chosen to leave at 16.30 in order to arrive at the Seaway at first light for that bar crossing. This m...
Crew Training. Mad Dash No.2 Nelson Bay – Coffs Harbour. Ep228
Leg No.2 from Nelson Bay to Coffs Harbour was a dream run really. Very low winds were forecasted but in reality we had just enough to keep up a nice average speed and sailed right up to the entrance of Coffs Harbour. Having a boat thats light and sails fas...
Mad Dash No.1 Sydney – Nelson Bay. Ep227
Righto, its off sailing we GO! All the work is done, Marie is home in France growing our child and I'm delivering the boat 4000miles from Sydney, Australia to Lombok, Indonesia and I need to be there by mid September in order to fly to France to be with Ma...
Sugar Scoop Rebuild – Fibreglass, Fairing and Painting – BOAT WORK (S4 E47 Barefoot Travels)
In this weeks episode of Barefoot Travels we set to work rebuilding the sugar scoops. From fibreglass to fairing and painting. Keep you eyes peeled towards the end and you may notice something is missing on Barefoot. Let us know if you notice what it is i...
A.I.S self installation. Am I Safe now? (Learning By Doing Ep226)
The last big job to do on Trade Runner was install AIS. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is one of the best electronic aids you can have and I wouldn't want to do night passages without it, especially solo. GME sent me a whole kit and in this vide...
Building our new Salon from scratch. (Learning By Doing Ep225)
For 3 months now we've been eating dinner on our knees, enough is enough, time to build a new salon. In this video I show you from start to finish how I accomplished this with minimum tools, products and talent. The finished result is so nice though and ...
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...
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