Bluewater Pacific sailing Noumea to Australia Part 3 - Ep 72

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 3 We continue our Bluewater sail to Australia. After Declan’s faux pas of the previous night (episode 71) which left us bringing up the rear, it was all go for the final 24 hours before we hit the coast of Australia. The wind falls our of our sails but there is something in the water. The marine life takes our pain away when a series of ocean dwellers come to visit., hitting our empathy button when we chose to continue our catch and release programme so as not to separate a mating pair of Mahimahi. Before you can say “Jack Robinson” the wind fills our sails and we are off chasing down our two companion yachts to a nail-biting finish. Just who wins is anyone’s guess. Music Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going De Joie – Paris – Musicbed.com De Joie – Paris instrumental – Musicbed.com Ellie Schmidly – There is more 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