WHAT? SAILING BOAT STUCK IN CORAL WITH NO WAY OUT! Ep 109

WHAT?! SAILING BOAT STUCK IN CORAL WITH NO WAY OUT! Ep 109 Can you trust your charts to take you to a safe anchorage? We sailed in to Driftwood Bay, Hamilton Island, Australia at high tide, dropped the pick and enjoyed the cove in the afternoon sunshine on our friends jetski. The following morning we woke to find ourselves surrounded by an endless sea of coral. No matter which way we tried to move we were hemmed in on every side. Low tide had exposed a coral field that didn't show up on the satellite image of the bay, which was presumably taken at high tide. Luckily we had miraculously dropped the pick in what seemed to be the only area which gave us enough room to sit safely and wait out the change of tide so that the sea level should rise again allowing us to sail away. We are stoked if you take the time to watch our journey. Even better if you take the time to 'like', 'comment' or 'share' (or all of the above) our YouTube videos. These are free things that help us enormously. However you might like to take the plunge in to supporting us through our Patreon page for creators of artistic content here: https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis Thank you! Rob, Rachel, Finn, Declan, Ivan https://www.patreon.com/CruisingKiwis Music Luna Keller - I don't know where I'm going Twice Young - 1 am - Musicbed.com Flight Hymn - Epic and dramatic music - Creative Commons Brooke Annibale - O come o come Emmanuel - Musicbed.com Dave Mumford - Ball and chain - Creative Commons BACK STORY In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob decided to row a tiny 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. His first taste of a blue water ocean crossing. Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and Rachel purchased Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob'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 the kids, Finn 18, Declan 16 and Ivan 13, in tow. Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of. Our plan? To sail around the world. 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. www.brothernumberone.co.nz ***** Follow us in real time on Instagram and Facebook @thecruisingkiwis @finn_hamill @declan_hamill @ivanhamill #NeverStopWanderingNeverStopWondering​. #TheCruisingKiwis