Cyclone: Preparing for a Cyclone on Our Sailboat. Our Sailboat is in the direct line for a cyclone!

In this episode, we face every boat owner and sailor's worst nightmare-preparing our sailboat for a cyclone. As sailors, we've dealt with rough weather before, but this tropical cyclone is bringing days of consistent high winds, torrential rain, and dangerous flooding, making storm preparation absolutely critical. We take you step-by-step through our cyclone preparation checklist, showing exactly how we secure our sailboat for extreme weather. This includes reinforcing with double mooring lines and ensuring these critical lines can handle sustained gale-force winds, securing sails and lines and tying down loose gear. With the forecast calling for hurricane-force gusts, heavy rain, and rising water levels, we're taking extra precautions to keep our boat and ourselves safe. We also discuss emergency supplies, communication strategies, and contingency plans in case conditions worsen. Both our house and sailboat are in the firing line for this tropical cyclone and we show what the days before look like for preparation and then the aftermath of the storm and what damage we encountered. Whether you're a sailboat owner, a beginner sailor, or dreaming of setting sail one day, understanding how to prepare a sailboat for a cyclone or a severe storm is essential knowledge. We cover real-world storm tactics for sailboats and key safety tips for offshore sailors, bluewater cruisers, and liveaboards. If you love sailing adventures, boat life tips, and real-world experiences of sailing around the world, subscribe for more! Don't forget to like, comment, and share this video if you found it helpful. It's been just over a year since our first sail in @SailingAstridTheWombat actually that means it's been a year since our first sail ever. That's right a year ago we bought this Beneteau Oceanis 430 and pulled the sail up for the first time ever when we brought her home. A sail that stretched 700 nautical miles from Townsville in Far North Queensland Australia to Moreton Bay in Brisbane Queensland. We bought our Sailboat a year ago and plan to sail it around the world. Join us to see the challenges as we continue to learn to sail, prepare our boat and make changes so our boat feels like a home. We are moving onboard in less than six months so the downsizing is in full swing and our sailing dream is getting closer and closer. Each experience we have and each new sailing skill learnt just keeps bringing us closer to taking off to sail around the world in our Beneteau Oceanis 430 @SailingAstridTheWombat living our boat life dream. We hope you enjoy our content. Please hit subscribe and follow our journey to full time sailing around the world. Chapters 00:00 Introduction 03:46 Prepping the Sailboat 05:30 Goodbye Astrid Goodbye 05:42 Cyclone Alfred 05:54 Leaving Before the Cyclone 08:37 Marina Activity 10:30 More Sailboat Preparations 12:52 Cyclone 14:00 Boat Check 18:22 Flooding 20:48 Pub's Open! 21:25 Post Storm Boat Work Please leave a comment, like and subscribe to follow our journey. We are Gav and Shezz an Aussie couple with a dream to sail and scuba dive around the world. We bought our Beneteau Oceanis 430 in October 2023 with zero sailing experience but the belief that we can do this. We have filmed our journey from looking for boats, buying the boat and downsizing our house so we can liveaboard and all the messy wonderful life stuff in between. Join us now as we start to get our boat prepared for liveaboard life. As new sailors we want to share all of our learnings and keep it real in our videos. We want to show step by step what it takes to choose a boat, buy the boat and learn how to sail. Our sailing learning curve is steep so come along with us as we learn and grow as liveaboard sailors. We promise you will have a laugh! Welcome aboard Astrid The Wombat Gav and Shezz You can also find us on Instagram and Facebook: Sailing Astrid the Wombat #sailing #liveaboard #sailingaustralia #sailingsydneytobrisbane #sailboat