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Back to the Beginning, how our sailboat adventures began. In this episode, we find our first blue water sailboat and the adventures begin! (Give us grace on this one as we learn to use Premier Pro...we know the sound quality needs improvement)
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One interesting part of traveling by sailboat is how your next destination can often be decided not so much by where you want to go, but where the weather dictates that you go. This was the case when we picked up anchor, pointed the bow West, and sailed deeper into the Bahamas.
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Boats have problems. That's just the way it is. The attitude you maintain while dealing with boat problems will have a lot to do with how much you enjoy your time on the water. In this video we do our best to continue having fun while in the midst of dealing with several very common boat proble...
How far do you get involved in local politics? Follow the rules and make friends in the country where you are a guest can mean a smoother sailing and travel experience.
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00:00 Sailing back to Kota Kinabalu
01:55 Why we don't do local politics
09:07 Un...
Preparing for Offshore Sailing and Medical Emergencies at Sea | Harbors Unknown Ep. 26
Today we are discussing the types of medical emergencies that may occur at sea, how you can prepare for them and how to approach them if they do happen.
Please note the content is not intended to be a substitut...
What We Learned as a Couple Living Full Time on a Boat; The Good & The Bad | Harbors Unknown Ep. 25
7 months. We’ve been living aboard our catamaran Wanderlust for 7 months. If you'd like to see more of our life on board check out this playlist.
It has been a period of adjustment. Learn...
It is time for another passage and this time we have created a pre-passage checklist to help us remember to check all those various items before we sail. Check out the checklist in our Extras section at Then we go get our COVID test (#5) for admittance to Turks and Caicos and then we check out of ...
On this episode of Sailing on a Whim, in the race to beat hurricane season, we travel on the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway for the first time on our journey to prepare Whim for hurricane season. It’s a mad dash to pack up the boat, dodge storms, and complete our hurricane prep before we say a tempo...
Sooo.... What is it *really* like to live on a boat? As a liveaboard cruising couple, sailing around the world, and living on a boat full time, we're often asked about our sailing lifestyle. We've done a few 'Living On A Boat' episodes before, but this week we're doing somet...
Join us this week as we take a tour of 5 very different wooden boats at the Pittwater Wooden Boat Festival.
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This week we explore the splendid Great Keppel Island and get up close and personal with one of the resident monotremes! We cross a stretch of water that is a four wheel drive track and cattle crossing at low tide, as well as, sailing back out to Lady Musgrave Island in the Capricorn Bunker Group o...
Join us this week as we explore the Whitsundays back in our wee sailboat with our friend Annabel aboard! Expect spectacular scenery, fantastic sailing, wildlife encounters, beautiful sunsets, a little bit of free range foraging, oyster tequila slammers and a guest cooking segment; this week Annabel ...
Join us as Pascale introduces you to her family whilst we charter a catamaran in the Whitsundays. We go sailing, catch a black tip shark for dinner and dive the fringing corals of Windy Bay. We also have an amazing encounter: swimming with, and feeding, Giant Trevally, Maori Wrasse and Batfish at on...
On our way to take classes with the American Sailing Association, we take a road trip to Northern Minnesota stopping in Duluth to explore and have some fun before we learn to sail offshore on Lake Superior.
This crazy adventure started in early 2018 as we started researching how to learn to sail, b...
Join us this week as we untie the lines at Townsville Marina after a 2 month refit of Mirrool. We sail away not knowing exactly where we will end up but using the gift of favourable northerly winds we sail to the beautiful Whitsundays. It's good to finally be back on the sea and out exploring a...
After 3 weeks on the hard we move Mirrool to the Marina in Townsville to continue our refit.
This week we remove our old fuel tank and install the custom made Thermalite fibreglass tank that Troy built in the boatyard. We show you our bespoke, hand laid cockpit hatches also constructed by Troy fro...
In our last few days at the boat yard, Troy builds a new fuel tank and explains our proposed modified fuel system. We paint Mirrool's anti-foul, install the reconditioned injectors into our Yanmar 2GM20, repair 2 more osmosis blisters in the hull and make final preparations to the boat before t...
In our last episode of our Far North Queensland series, we sail from Magnetic Island to Townsville to haul out Mirrool.
Featuring:
6:58 Twilight Tuna under sail
9:49 How to boil the perfect free range eggs
13:40 The big haul out (with a little bit of advice)
Music Credits
5:23, 6:40 & 17:43 T...
Join us this week as we visit Broadhurst Reef on the Great Barrier Reef. The visibility was great and we were thrilled to see the corals in such good condition. We check the anchorage with our drone, go free diving and spearfishing followed by a rendezvous with Meg and Darren from SV Sarean.
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Join us as we explore the beautiful Magnetic Island off the coast of Townsville in Queensland. We find Koala bears, visit the World War II anti-shipping forts and discover a tropical wetland complete with butterflies and fruit bats. We also rack up a giant coconut haul with our friends Meg and Darre...
Entering the creek in beautiful Zoe Bay we run afoul of a sandbar. We talk you through what we did to come off the sandbar including the problems we encountered. We fly our drone for the first time to capture the spectacular scenery including the very strong tide ripping through our little anchorage...
After keeping busy with boat chores in Cairns we decide to take a break and be tourists for a few days exploring the World Heritage Rain Forest around Kuranda. Join us as we experience the rain forest canopy from the sky, try some tasty food, teach you a little more about indigenous plant use and en...
In this episode we make the necessary upgrades to our dinghy in the process learning a lot about working with epoxy and fibre glass from our new friend David whose catamaran stole the show last week.
We've had a lot of questions about our experiences with the portabote dingy so stay tuned bec...
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