Pacific Ocean sailing RACE Noumea to Australia Part 2 - Ep 71

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 2 We have set off for our bluewater sail to Australia. We don’t care what anyone says, two or more boats heading in the same direction, towards the same destination are racing. It’s the unwritten law. Our friends on Moody Finn and Calle II know it and we know it. We may not have agreed to take part in a sailing contest, but we have all unwittingly or otherwise entered into an unofficial competition for our journey to Australia and we are losing. However, when we unleash the power of our big, hastily repaired, A symmetrical spinnaker, Miss Ribena on the fleet, (we also reveal how we set her up) the speed she commands helps us catch and pass our competitors. We take the lead, only to lose it again in an unfortunate turn of events that sees us go off coarse and stimulates us to express our frustration through the medium of song, as we murder our version of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’. We also have a close encounter with a cargo ship, dodge an upturned catamaran and Rob revels in the fact that Rachel has stolen the children’s childhood by ‘doing a Dad!’. Music Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going Olympus – Epic and dramatic trailer music - copy right free By The Coast – I’ll get you home – Musicbed.com By The Coast – I’ll get you home instrumental – Musicbed.com Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody cover 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