Family Sailing Lessons:Teaching Sailing Basics on our Beneteau Sailboat & Enjoying Beach Swims Ep 77

Join us for a fun-filled day on the water as we teach the family how to sail! In this episode of our sailing adventure, we invite our family aboard our sailboat for a hands-on introduction to sailing basics. From learning how to steer at the helm to trimming sails and understanding wind direction, this is a perfect beginner-friendly day on the ocean. If you're looking to learn more about sailing, liveaboard life, or how to teach sailing to family and kids, this episode has it all. We share real-world sailing lessons for beginners, introduce essential sailing skills, and demonstrate what it’s like to spend the day living and learning on a cruising sailboat. Whether you're just starting out, considering buying your first sailboat, or simply dreaming of sailing around the world, this video offers insight, inspiration, and lots of laughter! This is an ideal episode for: People interested in learning to sail Families looking to explore sailing as a lifestyle Sailboat owners wanting to involve loved ones onboard Beginner sailors curious about the liveaboard cruising lifestyle Anyone dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat We believe sailing should be fun, safe, and accessible to everyone—including kids and complete novices. In this video, you’ll see how we guide our family through an experience at sea, covering safety, sail handling, boat terminology, and the thrill of harnessing the wind to travel across the water. Our mission is to share the liveaboard experience, explore beautiful destinations by sailboat, and inspire others to take the leap into a life of freedom, simplicity, and adventure on the ocean. If you enjoy sailing content, want to learn how to sail, or love watching real-life cruising sailboat adventures, make sure to like, comment, and subscribe! We release new episodes every week, sharing our journey of sailing full-time, teaching others to sail, and embracing life on the sea. It's been a year and a half since our first sail in @SailingAstridTheWombat actually that means it's been a year and a half 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 are now preparing to move onboard and to sail 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 just a few weeks so 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 01:21 Sailing Day 03:25 Head Sail Out 04:17 Main Sail Out 04:40 Sailing Lessons 06:05 Sails In 06:14 Anchoring 06:50 Tender to the Beach 08:24 Island Swimming 09:47 Rowing Lessons 11:00 Anchor Up 11:48 Sailing Back 14:00 Head Sail Out 14:28 Sailing Home 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 #sailingadventures #sailboat