LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week share the story of losing our steering 50miles from home and the REALLY IMPRACTICAL way the manual emergency tillers work! We take you through that experience, how we came through it and the lessons we learnt so we hoepfully never have to do that again.... The good news coming out it though is that the systems that Portofino helped to create with Italian steering specialists are available for everyone to use and mean that Manual Emergency Tillers can be a thing of the past and never be needed again.... It is amazing stuff and even been approved by the certification bodies and if the steering ever dies on the Portofino, the steering wheel in the helm station will be where the "emergency" steering works from - SO MUCH BETTER THAN MANUAL STEERING FROM THE TRANSOM! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store BIG NEWS - triple reveal of the boat name, the launch date and viewing place, and our sailing plans of our BRAND NEW PORTOFINO 52 from then on... It's very exciting times and we share lots of exciting info here that you don;t want to miss! If you are interested in coming aboard our new boat soon after the launch, consider joining our Patreon family for as little as $12 per month. All the money goes to support the free TUFMINDS program that saves lives and help folk that are struggling around the world EVERY DAY!!! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we find out how the Yacht Sense Raymarine system has been designed by Portofino to provide early warning systems to monitor everything from the bilges to the engines, electrolysis, electrics, tanks, blowers and more! These allow early warnings of developing problems that can be addressed before they cause serious harm to the boat - AMAZING stuff! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we discuss ELECTROLYSIS - the silent killer of boats that can destroy any boat while safely moored in harbour! We show a BRAND NEW Lagoon 450 had its sail drive completely destroyed in 6 months. Raffaele Rognoni, Founder of Portofino explains how electrolysis and galvanic corrosion occur and the essential steps to protect ANY boat from this damage. Yes electrolysis occurs on all boats - fibreglass, wood, carbon fibre and metal so don;t think it ca't happen to you or your friends boat!!! Also corrosion of through hull fittings can lead to flooding and sinking of boats so every boat is at risk... Share this video with any of your friends who have boats, as the essential steps for protecting any boat is shared in this video!!! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we take you an exciting LIVE TOUR of the Portofino 47 as it is RIGHT NOW! See her progress and many of her amazing features that have been created by Portofino. From the transom wing doors, to the lifting platform, the workshop / technical room, lithium fire proof box and much more.... We see the engines actually in operation and almost die of heat exhaustion during the walkthrough with temperatures rising to around 55*C under the tin roof - Eli " frazzles her brain" and has to take her trousers off in front of an air con blower to cool down. PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

DONATIONS to the charity to save lives from Suicide with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we share the very exciting Hydraulic Bowsprit that has been designed and created in the Portofino Shipyard (Patent Pending....) You will be first to see the easy operations, maintenance and understand the amazing improvement it will make to the performance of the boat by the amount of extra sail area that will be created! It is also fast and so much safer than performing manual tasks over the ocean in bad weather! If this was your boat, would you choose to have this OR NOT? Let us know! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week continue to tour the Portofino 52 and the 47 as we see what all the new innovations developed while they are being built! The specifically important things are the fireproof lithium battery box that will sustain temperatures of 1000*C for hours and the compartment can be flooded with water to reduce the heat in the batteries! Also flush mounted anodes, easy lift out bilge pumps, lifting points, welded aluminium inlet and outlet valves - and much more! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we fly to Dubai to see what progress has happened with our Portofino 52 - VERY EXCITING STUFF!!! We see the boat at the stage that they are about to paint and many of the systems are now being made or installed. So we walk you through the boat and explain the different features and the reasons for our choices... . Remembering that their are unique features like the transom wing doors, slanted back windows, hydraulic bowsprit and much more, so hop in and watch this extended special tour of the 52 as she is now... Also make sure you hit the Subscribe and notification bell as there are lots of exciting videos up ahead! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

Cure Marine Contacts: Web - www.curemarine.com.au Email - info@curemarine.com.au This week we are really excited to test sail the brand new, first ever Cure 55 Hull No 1 as she has just been launched. It has a spectacular pedigree with low weight, thin hulls and reaching speeds significantly above windspeed at many angles and wind strengths! This innovative catamaran uses production processes with the largest 3D printer in the southern hemisphere and she promises to be a spectacular performer - but will she live up to the hype??? Join us for this exciting sail and walk through view of this brand new boat that is the first ever Cure 55 while she is actually sailing so we can see the stability, comfort, noise and of course, performance! Hope you enjoy the journey with us this week! Join our Patreon : www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing - from $3/episode Our Patreon option starts from only $3 per week, and will allow our supporters to enjoy live updates, early release and much more! In Dubai early 2025 (aboard the new Portofino 52) you would be able to join us for the launching party and test sails!!! We are also offering boat build tours with sailing off Dubai to share the progress of the P52 build and provide whatever sailing or life discussions that YOU want us to provide during all of these events..... It is a very exciting prospect and we have been requested repeatedly to give advice, take folk sailing, teach sailing techniques etc etc.... So here it is!!! Any Patreons will have the choice to join us for these events which are usually about 5 days to be up close and personal with Eli and John and learn from their expertise... There will be sailing trips, excursions and chats during the events and the subjects will be designed to suit the participants that will be there. Patreons will receive all the sailing and talks with the Barefoot Doctors without any cost but will only have to cover their own travel, food and accomodation costs. All Patreon proceeds go to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide. Some come Barefoot with us on this exciting journey - now physically and in person with Patreon if you wish!!! Binge watch and come barefoot with us as we travel and explore the planet, mostly from the water but sometimes through the minds of others as we provide aid and support where needed through the amazing TUFMINDS solutions! WHAT IS TUFMINDS The free TUFMINDS program is released as a smartphone program under the Exqisit Life Foundation Charity, a registered not for profit and requires financial support to fund the free program. TUFMINDS saves lives by intervening at the point of suicide and pulling everyone to higher levels of mental resilience, wellbeing and functioning. it also creates better attitudes, relationships, resilience and coping - all very important for sailors facing difficult situations at sea. @Barefoot Doctors Sailing DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://shoutforgood.com/charities/exqisit-life-foundation For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we make a major announcement about the Portofino 52 - but not really "good news." With the major developments with the US attacking Iran, we look at how that affects our plans and if Iran blocks the Straits of Hormuz, our boat would be trapped in Dubai unable to get out of the Arabian Gulf - worrying times.... We also share some details of our 2300nm sail from Tahiti to Fiji through a storm that blew 50 knots and 5 m seas and will share full episodes on these details later so lots of exciting videos ahead. We also are about to fly to Brisbane to test sail the Cure 55, a full carbon, high performance cat which will be really exciting and then we fly to Portofino to make final decisions about fit out choices. So make sure you follow along as there are lots of exciting videos up ahead! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we continue to check out boat builders in Vietnam and visit the Max Cruise factory and have an in depth look at their amazing Max 48SC with fast performance and very comfortable living space. Then add in teh very competitive price and it becomes really hard to beat! We also are staggered to find out you can purchase a NEW 42 foot CATAMARAN for ONLY $160K as long as you are happy to put it together - like Matt and Jess have in MJ Sailing! This is gives those a cheaper option and this is exactly how I got into sailing catamarans in teh days that I could not afford the full price!!!! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we continue to check out boat builders in Vietnam and visit the Rapido factory and have an in depth look at the NEW RAPIDO 53XS ("Xtra Space")- the new model with dramatically increased space with an amazing 10 berths available! Perhaps this should have been the model that La Vagabondes needed! We also do a factory tour, see their other models - 40, 50 and 60 foot, how they make the amazing asymmetrical curved daggerboards that lift the boats up by about a foot and increase performance significantly... They also make the parts for foiling ferries, drones, and planes with cutting edge features! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we fly to Vietnam and visit the Seawind factory and have an in depth look at the NEW Seawind 1160XL - the new version of their successful round the world pocket cruiser! We learn lots of valuable information from Richard Ward with his 50 years + of sailing and boat building experience.... This new version of the Seawind 1160 has multiple improvements in the design and hull shape to improve its performance and easy of use. PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

Warning - Graphic Medical Photos present. (Not too graphic but for those sensitive to blood, there is a bit...) LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we get invited for a weeks sailing in the Whitsundays, home of one of our favourite anchorages - Hill Inlet!!! Of course we agree and have a wonderful time in our own backyard! But our pleasure was interrupted by a serious emergency with a young lady falling on rocks covered with oysters and suffered a deep cut to her hand with profuse bleeding, tissue from underneath the skin all bulging out and she was in shock.... So join us as we work through the process and logic of fixing a major laceration (cut) as this is very likely to happen on any cruising yacht but also when you are out camping, bushwalking or even at the pub! Hope you enjoy but be warned as there are quite graphic medical photos... PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we have a very emotional goodbye to our good friend and helper in this past 3 years - never to see her again!!! We have our last sail and share how we secure the boat for the winter to prevent damage, rust and degradation of many expensive parts of the boat over the winter and time out the water. PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week share the real time update of the detailed galley design process as we attempt to get our wish list of things we want included in the general design already in place. Of course it is the fine details that are so important so we share with you what we are trying to achieve and the details that make quality of life SO MUCH BETTER! What suggestions can you make that will iimprove the design further? PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we have more fun with more Patreons and share many tips and tricks about sailing, the great areas that we have sailed in Turkey and why you must not miss it and much more.... We find strange marks on the Leopard 45 that are really hard to clean off and the cause of them is a mystery... Can any of our very clever viewers let us know what causes this and how to solve it!!! We also show how to tie down the dinghy to avoid any movement in rough seas, and how to divert water from the the watermaker to the tank that it normally does not supply.... Special treat for Leopard 45 owners! The other BIG DILEMMA is about corn on the cob - find out this world shattering problem about what is correct in this affair.... PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

LIKE, SUBSCRIBE and COMMENT - we want to hear your views! If you want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we are joined by new Patreons who have ambitions to cruise aboard but need the sailing experience to "clarify" if they can.... Very important stuff when making life choices. So Amanda and Brinley join us for a week and have a BALL!!! It ends with the 9 year old Brinley shocking us all as she LEADS the way to jump off the 2000m cliff and paraglide back down the mountain to where our boat is moored!!!! Amazing stuff!!! Would you be this brave? Plus lots of sailing tuition for Amanda and life skills for Brinley too - how to use a SUP..... Come barefoot with us! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

Want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This episode takes us to Pirate Cove, a spectacular but VERY TIGHT inlet where we are helped by friendly cruisers to get Med Moored. This brings us to sharing how we do the Med Mooring process with our tips and tricks and share our disaster story of our boat dragging while we were not there and we return to find the boat moved, people on board and a dinghies buzzing around to push it off the rocks! Important lessons learned that we share with you all! See the Leopard 45 perform upwind compared to the other usual production boats and if we make it... We also get spotted by a series of followers and have REALLY INTERESTING conversations about the "meaning of life" in sailing terms!!! Enjoy! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!

Want early release episodes, live updates, go sailing and a chance to meet us at events throughout the year? Click here: www.patreon.com/BarefootDoctorsSailing Every penny goes to Exqisit Life Foundation to support TUFMINDS Mental Resilience and Suicide Prevention Program worldwide! DONATIONS to the charity to support Suicide Prevention with the free TUFMINDS program can be made at: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=DR5NY95QLCTP6 For more info: www.TUFMINDS.com www.barefootdoctorssailing.com.au TUFMINDS app - in App Store This week we are trapped at the bottom of a 50nm gulf with winds that are always against us and blowing 15-25 knots. So we have to either motor (which we "hate") or sail upwind for that distance to get of here! See the Leopard 45 perform upwind compared to the other usual production boats and if we make it... We also get spotted by a series of followers and have REALLY INTERESTING conversations about the "meaning of life" in sailing terms!!! Enjoy! PLEASE COMMENT BELOW - SHARE YOUR VIEW on what info you want us to share in future episodes!