Wow what an amazing video….so many things I had never thought about. Food, fuel. Finding dump points - the non fun stuff. Seen all the exotic cruisers but never explained. What a fantastic experience for you both can’t wait to see the next video
Thank you, yes so many things we had never considered also, that quickly became apparent 😱. We hope to get to the exotic cruising part in the future, but first we have to figure out what we are doing and wanted to share the experience as we learn. Love that you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching. 🙌
You buggers frighten me. 1. Did you have a marine survey done on the yacht before you bought it? 2. I dont know how much sailing experience you have, but it looks like zero having watched this episode. 3. Ive done a lot of boating, not sailing, and believe me, things can go wrong pretty quickly. 3. Your planned trip would be a challenge for experienced sailers. 4. I trust you have your life jackets, emergency beacon & all the safety gear in easy reach. Love following you and I admire your courage & adventurous spirit. Ive been following you for a while now. Just be careful team. You gotta crawl before you walk. Lotsa love & best wishes guys. 😊❤
Hey Dave, don't worry we frighten ourselves at time too hahah. In answer to your questions..... 1. yes we did have a survey done as part of the sales process 2. We have some boating experience but zero sailing experience as you picked up in the video 3. Hahah yes so we have found out 😜 4. Yes we have that close to the door most of the time, so its easy to reach should we need it, if the jackets are not already on We have seen your comments along our journey and appreciate you following and sending us messages, even now we have swapped transportation modes. 🙌
Wow guys, you're only new to this and you're planning to do what scares the pants off seasoned Aussie yachties. Sail down the west coast of Aus! Take your time in protected waters first, make as many mistakes as possible, laugh and learn.... Fast! Also as you begin your journey always plan for multiple anchorages along the way, just in case if or when shit happens, you've got somewhere to pull into to take a breather. You've got so very much to learn, keep safety as your number one rule so you live long enough to learn the rest. Good luck guys! 🍻🍻
Hey, yes we have been told that we are a little mad, crazy or both to plan such a big sail down the west coast as complete newbies to sailing. Maybe the fact we didn't realise it was such a big deal was a good thing so we didn't get scared off the trip, but yes we will have to learn very fast and will do everything possible to stay safe as we want to enjoy many years of sailing in the future. Thanks for your message and of course for watching!
@@LBWAdventures Ohh there's no doubt you're both completely insane! But ignorance is bliss lol I personally have sailed the east coast from Melbourne up past Cairns more times than I can count. I've never sailed the west coast but I do have intentions (once my legs stop shaking lol). Its obviously on an old yacht, so I'm assuming the entire yacht is "aged" and that's completely fine, BUT you must be prepared for when things you don't even know the name of yet, break! If I can offer a little advice. The biggest "safety issue" with modern day sailors is their reliance on electronics. Please don't do this. You're going to face plenty of on shore storms of over 50 knots with very few safe anchorages to choose from. Your electronics are going to fail, that's guaranteed. So you must learn how to navigate and stay safe when you're completely alone, and you will be! The west coast of Aus is NOT the most populated place on earth haha. Make sure you have paper charts for the entire voyage and tide tables (paper not electronic.). Tides are huge up there so an understanding navigating with tidal allowances is essential. Learn how to read them. Get or make a lead line so you can judge the depth when pulling in to shore at night and your depth sounder is not working, example: www.jollyparrot.co.uk/blog/using-a-lead-line-453 Then you can use the depth on the charts to get a fair idea of where you are. Also buy yourself an old radio direction finder, these things are almost bomb proof and you can triangulate your position almost anywhere around the Aus coast. Buy a held held bearing compass, these are invaluable when shit happens. Please make sure your life raft is up to current specs and installed correctly, hopefully you'll never need it, but when / if you do, the last thing you want is having to try and dive down to cut it loose from a sinking boat. Get a sea anchor, in the old days we'd use a few weighted and drilled tires, cheap but did the job in a bad storm. Today there are various options but stay away from the complicated ones cos if their only slightly complicated when it's calm, they become down right impossible and dangerous in storm conditions. Make it a rule to wear safety harness at night regardless of the weather, during the day if winds are over x, or if you're alone i.e. your partner is sleeping. Honestly I'm nervous for you! No doubt you'll have a great time and see some amazing things, it will be life changing. But what you're doing is akin to buying a pair of training boxing gloves and getting in the ring with Mike Tyson. You're going to get beat up! So get very well prepared.
Wow, you have done a lot of sailing and that makes it sound even more scary if you haven't done the WA cost yet and we are just diving right in. Thank you for all of the advice, we have in some instances got some of the things sorted that you mentioned, but of course will do our best to be as safe as possible. We do want to make it home. We are excited to see the Kimberley's and I guess if all goes well, we should be awesome sailors by the time we finally arrive down in Perth 😜
@@LBWAdventures You'll both be honorary blue water skippers! Hahaha We used to say 7 times through Bass Straight and you're automatically an honorary skipper regardless of age or education. But out of all those "honorary skippers" very few have sailed the west coast of Aus. The biggest issue with your planned journey is the lack of safe anchorages and ports along the way. On the East coast that's a non issue. Also on the East coast the winds are blowing you away from or along the coast. On the west it's opposite, so a lot of the time you're being pushed towards the land. Keep this in mind for engine failures, rudder failures etc. it's why sea anchors / drogues are a must on that journey. So you will have to be extremely well prepared. The actual sailing part is easy, you'll both become good sailors within days/weeks. Try and grow together, swap jobs/responsibilities between the both of you. The more familiar each of you are with everything on the yacht, the safer you'll be. Once you reach the stage that you can both sleep like a baby during strong winds in the knowledge that your partner can easily handle it. Then you're almost bullet proof. One things for sure, once you've done this, THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER! Hahaha sorry, couldn't resist 😜😜
Thank you 💙. Yes we are def pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and trying to live life to the fullest!!! Love hearing that you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and for sending us a message!
You appear to be getting some sound advice here the wife and I sailed from Perth to Darwin many years ago on our mono so a much easier trip than the one you are undertaking. The hardest leg for you maybe along the Zytdorp cliffs (around 100 miles) with no anchorages. Our coppy of the Fremantle cruising guide was a great guide at the time. Best of luck.
Yes we are def being given a lot to think about!!!! Yes we have heard that area around Shark Bay can also be very unpleasant, fingers crossed for some decent weather by the time we get there!!!! We do have a digital copy of the Freemantle cruising guide which we hope will be very useful as we head south. Thanks for the message and for watching :)
HI Guys Shit happens and so long as nobody is hurt, all is sweet . if it going to hell let go of everything might be a bit of flapping !!! Take care and go slooooly the diarhoea shouldn't run as fast Thanks for real content
Hahah thank you. We try to capture as much of the 'real' happenings as possible, but sometimes holding a camera just isn't an option. Yes luckily no one was hurt, just learnt a good lesson that we need to respect the weather and learn a lot more about out boat. Love the reference and will do our best to 'slow the stream' 😜
Good luck with your catamaran, I am not a sailor but do enjoy watching others on utube, you may want to do some research on your planned trip to the Kimberley’s by watching Slim &Soph on utube sailing a yacht to all the dram destinations. Other channels to watch, Parlay revival, gone with the wynns who had a RV in the USA and bought a cat with no experience then sailed to NZ, all the best
Hey Tony, thanks for watching and for your advice. We have watched most of slim and soph's eps and love parlay revival being a fellow kiwi. Gone with the wynns we have seen a few eps but might have to go back for a better look. 🙌💙
Gee guys that went from zero to fifty really quick with the ropes and pulley. Sailing sounds like a marriage tester lol.Your first trips will be showing up different problems but you will fix them up . Safe journey.
Yes it 💯 went from this is awesome to holly s**t hahah. I don’t think it helped feel any better about leaving that’s for sure! Thanks as always for the message and for watching 🙌
Other channels to watch, Sailing Nandji, a young Aussie couple with no experience, bought an old yacht in the Whitsundays or sailing yacht Florence who were very experienced sailing around the world, or sailing Nahoa, family sailing a catamaran
That I am 😜. I'm guessing you're either also from there, or know people who are too guess that correctly as I've had people ask if my accent is from all sorts of random places around the world hahah.
thats a real experience of sailing.
hahah yes it was a little too real.... I think it made us more nervous about leaving than we were already 😜
Wow what an amazing video….so many things I had never thought about. Food, fuel. Finding dump points - the non fun stuff. Seen all the exotic cruisers but never explained.
What a fantastic experience for you both can’t wait to see the next video
Thank you, yes so many things we had never considered also, that quickly became apparent 😱. We hope to get to the exotic cruising part in the future, but first we have to figure out what we are doing and wanted to share the experience as we learn. Love that you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching. 🙌
You buggers frighten me.
1. Did you have a marine survey done on the yacht before you bought it?
2. I dont know how much sailing experience you have, but it looks like zero having watched this episode.
3. Ive done a lot of boating, not sailing, and believe me, things can go wrong pretty quickly.
3. Your planned trip would be a challenge for experienced sailers.
4. I trust you have your life jackets, emergency beacon & all the safety gear in easy reach.
Love following you and I admire your courage & adventurous spirit. Ive been following you for a while now.
Just be careful team. You gotta crawl before you walk.
Lotsa love & best wishes guys. 😊❤
Hey Dave, don't worry we frighten ourselves at time too hahah. In answer to your questions.....
1. yes we did have a survey done as part of the sales process
2. We have some boating experience but zero sailing experience as you picked up in the video
3. Hahah yes so we have found out 😜
4. Yes we have that close to the door most of the time, so its easy to reach should we need it, if the jackets are not already on
We have seen your comments along our journey and appreciate you following and sending us messages, even now we have swapped transportation modes. 🙌
@LBWAdventures Sorry, I didn't mean to sound like a "doting father."
But we Kiwis have to look out for each other. Hee heee
Not al all, happy to have all the help and advise available 🙌🙌🙌🙌…. Clearly we need it 🙃
Wow guys, you're only new to this and you're planning to do what scares the pants off seasoned Aussie yachties. Sail down the west coast of Aus!
Take your time in protected waters first, make as many mistakes as possible, laugh and learn.... Fast!
Also as you begin your journey always plan for multiple anchorages along the way, just in case if or when shit happens, you've got somewhere to pull into to take a breather.
You've got so very much to learn, keep safety as your number one rule so you live long enough to learn the rest.
Good luck guys! 🍻🍻
Hey, yes we have been told that we are a little mad, crazy or both to plan such a big sail down the west coast as complete newbies to sailing. Maybe the fact we didn't realise it was such a big deal was a good thing so we didn't get scared off the trip, but yes we will have to learn very fast and will do everything possible to stay safe as we want to enjoy many years of sailing in the future. Thanks for your message and of course for watching!
@@LBWAdventures Ohh there's no doubt you're both completely insane! But ignorance is bliss lol
I personally have sailed the east coast from Melbourne up past Cairns more times than I can count. I've never sailed the west coast but I do have intentions (once my legs stop shaking lol).
Its obviously on an old yacht, so I'm assuming the entire yacht is "aged" and that's completely fine, BUT you must be prepared for when things you don't even know the name of yet, break!
If I can offer a little advice. The biggest "safety issue" with modern day sailors is their reliance on electronics. Please don't do this.
You're going to face plenty of on shore storms of over 50 knots with very few safe anchorages to choose from. Your electronics are going to fail, that's guaranteed. So you must learn how to navigate and stay safe when you're completely alone, and you will be! The west coast of Aus is NOT the most populated place on earth haha.
Make sure you have paper charts for the entire voyage and tide tables (paper not electronic.). Tides are huge up there so an understanding navigating with tidal allowances is essential. Learn how to read them. Get or make a lead line so you can judge the depth when pulling in to shore at night and your depth sounder is not working, example: www.jollyparrot.co.uk/blog/using-a-lead-line-453
Then you can use the depth on the charts to get a fair idea of where you are.
Also buy yourself an old radio direction finder, these things are almost bomb proof and you can triangulate your position almost anywhere around the Aus coast.
Buy a held held bearing compass, these are invaluable when shit happens.
Please make sure your life raft is up to current specs and installed correctly, hopefully you'll never need it, but when / if you do, the last thing you want is having to try and dive down to cut it loose from a sinking boat.
Get a sea anchor, in the old days we'd use a few weighted and drilled tires, cheap but did the job in a bad storm. Today there are various options but stay away from the complicated ones cos if their only slightly complicated when it's calm, they become down right impossible and dangerous in storm conditions.
Make it a rule to wear safety harness at night regardless of the weather, during the day if winds are over x, or if you're alone i.e. your partner is sleeping.
Honestly I'm nervous for you!
No doubt you'll have a great time and see some amazing things, it will be life changing.
But what you're doing is akin to buying a pair of training boxing gloves and getting in the ring with Mike Tyson. You're going to get beat up! So get very well prepared.
Wow, you have done a lot of sailing and that makes it sound even more scary if you haven't done the WA cost yet and we are just diving right in.
Thank you for all of the advice, we have in some instances got some of the things sorted that you mentioned, but of course will do our best to be as safe as possible. We do want to make it home.
We are excited to see the Kimberley's and I guess if all goes well, we should be awesome sailors by the time we finally arrive down in Perth 😜
@@LBWAdventures You'll both be honorary blue water skippers! Hahaha
We used to say 7 times through Bass Straight and you're automatically an honorary skipper regardless of age or education.
But out of all those "honorary skippers" very few have sailed the west coast of Aus.
The biggest issue with your planned journey is the lack of safe anchorages and ports along the way. On the East coast that's a non issue. Also on the East coast the winds are blowing you away from or along the coast. On the west it's opposite, so a lot of the time you're being pushed towards the land. Keep this in mind for engine failures, rudder failures etc. it's why sea anchors / drogues are a must on that journey.
So you will have to be extremely well prepared. The actual sailing part is easy, you'll both become good sailors within days/weeks.
Try and grow together, swap jobs/responsibilities between the both of you. The more familiar each of you are with everything on the yacht, the safer you'll be. Once you reach the stage that you can both sleep like a baby during strong winds in the knowledge that your partner can easily handle it. Then you're almost bullet proof.
One things for sure, once you've done this, THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER!
Hahaha sorry, couldn't resist 😜😜
Go you two, you just tackle each thing that comes up one at a time, always learning.
Loving your video. What a lifetime experience. Take care.
Thank you 💙. Yes we are def pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones and trying to live life to the fullest!!! Love hearing that you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and for sending us a message!
You appear to be getting some sound advice here the wife and I sailed from Perth to Darwin many years ago on our mono so a much easier trip than the one you are undertaking. The hardest leg for you maybe along the Zytdorp cliffs (around 100 miles) with no anchorages. Our coppy of the Fremantle cruising guide was a great guide at the time. Best of luck.
Yes we are def being given a lot to think about!!!! Yes we have heard that area around Shark Bay can also be very unpleasant, fingers crossed for some decent weather by the time we get there!!!! We do have a digital copy of the Freemantle cruising guide which we hope will be very useful as we head south. Thanks for the message and for watching :)
Wow! that got hectic. Best vid yet LBW crew, keep them coming 👌
Hahah sure did, we were not ready at all for that when we went out that day!!!!! ❤️
HI Guys
Shit happens and so long as nobody is hurt, all is sweet . if it going to hell let go of everything might be a bit of flapping !!!
Take care and go slooooly the diarhoea shouldn't run as fast
Thanks for real content
Hahah thank you. We try to capture as much of the 'real' happenings as possible, but sometimes holding a camera just isn't an option. Yes luckily no one was hurt, just learnt a good lesson that we need to respect the weather and learn a lot more about out boat. Love the reference and will do our best to 'slow the stream' 😜
Good luck with your catamaran, I am not a sailor but do enjoy watching others on utube, you may want to do some research on your planned trip to the Kimberley’s by watching Slim &Soph on utube sailing a yacht to all the dram destinations. Other channels to watch, Parlay revival, gone with the wynns who had a RV in the USA and bought a cat with no experience then sailed to NZ, all the best
Hey Tony, thanks for watching and for your advice. We have watched most of slim and soph's eps and love parlay revival being a fellow kiwi. Gone with the wynns we have seen a few eps but might have to go back for a better look. 🙌💙
Yes, they were complete newbies to sailing after several years in RV motorhome
oh ok awesome, we are pretty much copying their journey then. will def take a look 🙌
Gee guys that went from zero to fifty really quick with the ropes and pulley. Sailing sounds like a marriage tester lol.Your first trips will be showing up different problems but you will fix them up . Safe journey.
Yes it 💯 went from this is awesome to holly s**t hahah. I don’t think it helped feel any better about leaving that’s for sure! Thanks as always for the message and for watching 🙌
Other channels to watch, Sailing Nandji, a young Aussie couple with no experience, bought an old yacht in the Whitsundays or sailing yacht Florence who were very experienced sailing around the world, or sailing Nahoa, family sailing a catamaran
Thanks for the additional channels to look out for 😀. Looks like you are all over the sailing channels 😀😜
I notice you roll your R's. Are u from Southland??
That I am 😜. I'm guessing you're either also from there, or know people who are too guess that correctly as I've had people ask if my accent is from all sorts of random places around the world hahah.
Where abouts in Southland are you from, detect a southern brrr if im not mistaken ??
Hahah you are not mistaken…. Down near winton is where I grew up. Are u from somewhere down there too?
BOAT.. bust out another thousand.
Hahah yip heard that one…. Let’s hope it’s not too many thousands that need to depart the pockets 😝