It’s back to the shore to measure up for the Mainsail stack pack. It’s much quicker this time as we have already made the mizzen stack pack. Then it’s back to the boat to start sewing again.
We head to the jetty to fill Nutshell’s water tanks and ...
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The water tanks h...
We you how we bought a boat in this video!! Episode 3 of our series of sailing around the world. We sailed in the Seychelles a couple years ago on a Lagoon 42 catamaran, and guess what we ended up buying!
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While Adam goes to UK to complete his Yachtmaster Offshore, I take advantage of the empty boat and bring out the sander, paints and varnish for a mini makeover on the Falcon!
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We’ve made it to Seisia and go ashore in Peanut, to the Loyalty Beach Caravan Park, to pick up our spinnaker sock., finally!
We measure and mark out the fabric for the mizzen stack pack. There isn’t enough room on Nutshell to do it easily so we use a ...
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We save even the smallest or thinnest pieces of mahogany from Victoria just in case a piece of scrap wood might be helpful. As we looked to fill the bungs...
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We leave Portland Roads and get ready for three ‘big’ days of sailing on our way to Seisha.
The gearbox is failing, yet again, so we are gingerly making our way, using the wind as much as possible.
Magnus has a chat about the Raspberry Pi which he ha...
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In this episode, we fabricate, modify, and install a bunch...
After exploring the stunning Aboriginal rock art on Stanley Island we set off to take a peek at the camping area.
The available facilities are great but the discarded aluminium cans and rubbish are a little upsetting.
We then plan our sailing route for t...
Dylan Magaster and Niki on SV Arianrhod explore in greece abandoned monastery and political exile refuge
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In this episode land on an island in the beautiful Whitsundays that was once home to a fancy vacation resort, but has since been left desolate after a tragic cyclone tore through. Too expensive to repair, it sits there, waiting for a group of pirates to ar...
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In this episode we travel through the most famous sailing grounds in Australia, the Whitsundays, to find the most beautiful beach known as Whitehaven! Due to Cyclone Season there are so few charter boats running that after midday, all the tourists LEAVE me...
Come along with us to MS Fabrication in Dorchester, Massachusetts, where Evan Kelly takes the three dimensional templates we built a couple of weeks back and turns them into stainless steel water tanks. In this episode, we'll follow one tank through that p...
After the lovely sail through the Owen Channel we decide to anchor for the night. The wind is howling.
But, disaster strikes when Magnus tries to furl the headsail. Something is very wrong.
We go backwards and forwards into the wind to try and furl it bu...
We went from zero sailing experience to full time cruisers in two years! So we're exited to close the second year of living hakuna by sharing all the details about our lifestyle as we get ready to start our third year of catamaran sailing.
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In this episode we travel along a treacherous path through the reef to reach the HEART 💙 And we dive a spectacular site in the Whitsundays Islands.
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Don't worry, electrical geeks and systems nerds, there's still plenty to do on the wiring front. We have to put that on pause a bit until we know what the clearance is around the finished water tanks. Until then, let's keep screaming along on the interior....
Join us as we head out to the Bunker Capricorn Island Group on the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, you will not be disappointed as this place is the epitome of paradise. North West Island is the second sand cay and homes up to a million sea birds!
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We invite you to join us for a tour of our new home Sailing Vessel Bye Felicia, a 2004 41' Hunter AC. Week three aboard Bye Felicia, we finally have things settled enough to give it interior tour. Lisa walks you through the living space of the boat and sho...
It seems truly amazing friends only come into your life every once in awhile. This was one of those times as we are reunited with two other boats in Mayotte. In this video you will meet the “Mozambique Channel Sea Gypsies” a group of friends who would ...
It’s time to convert Nutshell’s American power points to something a little more useful. We have decided to change a few of the sockets to Australian. But, our power points are white, so Wendy spends time with the paint pot camouflaging them to blend i...
We've got three booth visits for you, and exciting ones at that: Sea Frost refrigeration, Mantus Marine's anchor swivel and chain hook, and a nifty tool demo at the beginning.
After building the refrigerator and having it so close to finished, we're glad...
At sunrise we noticed a break in the wind, so we unfurled our jib and lowered it . Matt also takes a look at the other canvas and vinyl projects to be done. Soon we will be taking on these projects with our brand new industrial sewing machine by Sailrite.
Here's the rest of the conversation. We broadcast an earlier live video— https://youtu.be/uZkFNjgkezQ — in which you can see Anne's friend Nica making fantastic soup and sandwiches aboard Calypso in Spa Creek. After that, we had a nice conversation wit...
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We have an very eventful time exploring Alonnisos Greece in the Northern Sproades where we end up in a scooter crash, we see a mediterranean monk seal and then I fall off the gangway...
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We sail to Hope Island and go ashore to have a look around.
The beach is covered with plastic pollution.
We have a go at beach cricket and return to Nutshell.
Then a sail to Cooktown.
Magnus installs new galley taps on Nutshell.
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What a payoff! Layers and layers of all sorts of foam, 'glass, epoxy, and fairing compound have come to this big reveal of how this refrigerated chest will look when it goes into the boat—covered in contrasting cherry wood. Before then, though, it did se...
In this week's episode we explore Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. This massive rocky wasteland could be confused for Mars and so we set off to explore the most off the beaten path locations here!
While this place is very arid and dry, it is strangely bea...
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