Bluewater Pacific sailing Noumea to Australia Part 1 - Ep 70

A huge thank you to those who help keep our boat afloat by supporting our creative process via Patreon. You can be part of the crew for less than the price of a coffee. https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis Bluewater Pacific sailing Noumea to Australia Part 1 Our time in New Caledonia has come to an end. The planning, weather routing and journey timing for our sail across the Pacific to Australia has begun. For this voyage we are trying something new, we are sailing in convoy with two other cruising boats Calle II and Moody Finn, it’s a crossing that is shaping up to be our best sail ever. As with any sail in close proximity to other boats, we can’t help but turn it in to a race, even though it’s not a race and we’re losing! No matter, it’s still early days, we’re philosophical that when the wind picks up so will our race position, even though it's not a race. While we wait for this to happen we practise our Oz-tralian and Rob cooks up a yummy Pumpkin soup. Music Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going The Hungry Years – Lower case noises David Mumford – Bonfire David Mumford – Ball and chain WHO ARE WE? In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race. Skip forward to 2014, we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert's 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel's non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of. Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. ***** Follow us in real time on Instagram and Facebook @thecruisingkiwis @finn_hamill @declan_hamill #NeverStopWanderingNeverStopWondering. #TheCruisingKiwis