SAILING WITH SUPER YACHTS IN REMOTE ISLANDS - Ep 49

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 SAILING WITH SUPER YACHTS IN REMOTE ISLANDS 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 hen you are on a budget and have limited resources a rainy day can be a Godsend. We pull out the buckets and mop and get busy washing our clothes, swabbing the decks and making hay while the sun shines, or rather doesn't. It's the guilt free way of getting jobs done without eating into our precious fresh water supply. However, we are not adverse to the finer things in life too. So when an invitation arises to visit super yacht 'The Beast' we are delighted to excepted and learn a thing or two from iconic Kiwi business man Sir Micheal Hill Jeweler and his wife Lady Christine. Music Cricket Farm - Bending Spoons The Weatherspoons - Time to go home Gideon Irving - 3000 miles pt 2 Ambient and emotional cinematic - royalty free music David Mumford - Old House 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 on YouTube - The Cruising Kiwis instagram @thecruisingkiwis Facebook - The Cruising Kiwis ***** #TheCruisingKiwis