SAILING the SOUTH PACIFIC and why we love it - Ep 51

Sailing the South Pacific and why we love it 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 We are heading north to the Garden Island of Taveuni with the wind at our backs and the seas pushing us along. These ideal conditions help Rob get in touch with his inner sailor, revived after sleeping dormant since his teenage days of P-Class dinghy racing. Hear him wax lyrical about what he loves about life on the water. However, Ivan’s stomach is telling us a very different story as it revives his not so dormant breakfast. And while Ivan vomits above board, in his cabin Declan has stopped breathing. The Cruising Kiwis the show that brings you everything! Music Cricket Farm – Bending Spoons The Big Serious Muffin Band – Mr T Pot The Weatherspoons – Anthems for a 17 year old girl The Weatherspoons – Far from any road 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. Find us on Facebook – The Cruising Kiwis Instagram – @thecruisingkiwis @declan_hamill @finn_hamill ******** #TheCruisingKiwis