Good morning! Welcome aboard our new ride, our 1.6 million dollar floating hotel,
in one of the best cruising playgrounds on the planet. It's luxurious, full of all your
creature comforts. There's just one problem, but it'll be okay. Okay, my turn. Oh yeah,
all right, good luck. It's a 16-tonne. We've never docked into something this
size before. It's going to be wild. It's kind of rocking around a lot. And bloody. Are you
okay? I can't believe that after sailing 4,000 nautical miles up the East Coast of Australia,
this finally happened. That feels weird. So join us on board, welcome to boat life!
Let's have a look around. This floating hotel, as I like to call it, has four double suites on
board. This is what 1.6 million dollars looks like. So, I thought we'd start up here in the
galley. You shape the chin, we have an oven, plenty of pantry space. In here, we went a
little overboard. We've stocked and provisioned just about as many groceries you'd find in a
small-sized supermarket. How much was the bill, by the way? 700 or something, I think. Yep, we had to
squeeze enough food on board for seven people for a week. Where do we start? I'll introduce
you to the rest of the crew soon. Double sing cake and all our appliances right along here with the
TV. I've also got the saloon area. We have the nav station just next to us and a wee ice maker.
If we make our way down onto the port side, we have Ryan's room, a nice big queen ensuite
bathroom in here with a massive shower. And then over on our side is exactly the
same. Plenty of space, windows. Look at all the electronics. Drone batteries, GoPro batteries,
Canon batteries, and DJI equipment. There's the water maker in here. So, I've just heard the
guys talking about the plan today. "Morning. Good morning." So, what's the plan today? You
missed the brief. Sorry, that's alright. Typical. So, we have just five days in the Whitsundays,
and our goal is to find the best beach, find the best view, and uncover the most insane hike. John
just went straight into a spider web, and our only means of transport is our boat, a Lagoon 450s.
Being at the mercy of Mother Nature comes with its own challenges: the tides, the wind,
the vast distances here in the Whitsundays. It's made up of 74 stunning islands off the
Great Barrier Reef. This area spans 282 square kilometers. That's more than 100 square miles. So,
let's find these hidden gems, and let the timer begin! And if you want to start waving, yeah.
And while we're here, let me introduce you to our crew. We have sailing YouTubers Janaye and Jason
from Leading the Escapade, Ryan from Sailing Sunday, Slim and Soph from Sailing Sunday, and
then that leads John, my boyfriend, and me. And I'm claiming Captain for today. All right,
everyone, listen to your Captain, so let's hope we get to our destination in one piece. Okay,
my turn. Hey, yep. All right, come back, come back, come back. Oh, it's really heavy. She's
16 tonnes and 45 feet. It's a big boat. Yeah, well, are we going? Which way are we going?
Okay now I should mention every good Captain has a
Captain's Log. Today's plan I think we're gonna go to Whitehaven. I'm
a little nervous because John and I have never sailed a cat before. Our yacht Tucana had one
hull. This boat has two, and it's about four times as expensive. It looks like it operates
very differently all the lines run into the cockpit. We're actually pretty hard.. there
you go and you also have two throttles. So not just one engine, but two! So we've just started
our trip over here we're gonna go all the way down here to Hill Inlet. This is Whitehaven
right here time. And time again it's voted the best beach in the world. Now we just need to
work out how to get there using just the wind on our sails and the winches are going to be
doing all the heavy lifting. So we've got a low in high speed I'm assuming one is okay?
Getting the tension right is critical so we're always eyeballing the sail to make sure we have it
trimmed perfectly. We just sold our boat Tucana, which was a monohull, so this was our first
impressions of a catamaran completely different this is like so eye-opening. I literally feel like
we're on a floating house that's sails. There's so many areas to like lay down,
lounge around, I love trampoline to the front. There's so much fun. Yesterday
Slim and Soph were behind the helm. It was comfortable writing a magazine out on the deck.
We got hit by a squall and caught in some chop it was a little unexpected. We were copying it.
Oh yeah and John's view from inside!
Talking about champagne sailing,
let's get back on track find the best beach before the bush bashing begins!
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Come on. Okay so we've just arrived to Hill Inlet
and we're just about to drop the anchor right at the front 20 meters a chain.
We've had to be really careful where we anchor we're surrounded by sandbars and the spring
tides here get up to almost four meters that's 13 feet but to be on the safe side
we have a 10 to one ratio. I think we're gonna be good it's exciting guys thank you made it!
Okay we just made it to Hill Inlet the Northern end of Whitehaven. I'm so glad
that as the skippers today, we were able to bring the whole crew to this spot. I think
this has to be my number one favorite place. How about you? It is amazing and we got really
lucky with the weather. After a few days of this tropical storms and the first one day
absolutely spectacular so let's quickly talk about the sand it's so pure and refined that
NASA used it to make the glass for the Hubble telescope which to this day is located about
330 miles or 530 kilometers above the Earth's surface it orbits us 15 times a day and these
are some of the images it's recorded it records in wavelengths of light spanning from ultraviolet
to near infrared for 98 silica and it is the widest turn in the world and it's because of
its ultra fine sediment that the waters here are so turquoise the boys were losing their minds
to celebrate Jenaye's birthday little does she know we actually have something
you come up with a little black more on that soon but let's first find and Conquer this
Lookout and try not to get killed struck bitten or stung along the way to get to
this next spot we're sailing to a place called hook passage on the beach there's a track that
leads to what we've heard has the best view in 100 miles but dusk is approaching making
it to the top and back before nightfall is going to test us do you have a blowout some
of us weren't prepared for what was to come I think so snakes but spiders were the worst oh
my God look at the pences on that thing we had to arm ourselves
this is why I'm at the back the biggest spider I've ever seen no way John just went straight
into a spider web very proud of you leading the park I think I want to turn around now
yeah that's the size of my hand s create some of their web in the bottom corner oh my God
I'm scared I kind of want to turn around oh my little the green ants wow sorry it is currently
3 30 in the other and we've just started this hike we're going to the tallest peak in the wet Sundays
a little concerning we may not make it down in time for sunset and we don't have a torch we've
got our phones which we're using to Vlog let's hope that we make it down in one piece and uh
this is the only water I have the rest of the crew well they came on we're gonna crack open the beer
yeah yeah no I don't want any now I need to be on my sober eyes to get back down here about getting
eaten alive well I guess it's good that we're fueled up on pancakes but not just any pancakes
a pancake cake it's so weird we're all on board hanging out and celebrating okay we're ready
like we've been mates for years when really we've all known each other for less than 24 hours
weirdly we feel like we know all these guys because of their YouTube channels
and so when Janaye and Jason lined this Charter up with Portland Roads sailing the Whitsundays
a couple of weeks ago while we were all in Australia we all just jumped at the idea and
here we are at our most vulnerable feeling like we've made friends for life [Music]
together finding the best view in the wet Sundays oh that's pretty awesome what a spot
seriously stop here guys look at this [Music] to celebrate we have a couple of amazing deals
to share with you guys but just quickly since announcing the sale of Tucana last week we've
been reminiscing about this whole adventure oh my goodness it seemed life-changing it's been amazing
no seriously yeah it has I agree it's completely changed our mindset about work fun adventure has
and I think great reset I feel like I put limits on myself and what I'm unable to achieve knowing
that we've been able to accomplish what we have I'm happy to give anything a go now yeah
that's right do you feel like that yep anything's possible I think one of the most inspiring things
about this trip hold it this way it's pretty cool when we get messages from people who are
inspired but I feel inspired as that there's just inspiration all around just in general
a lot of inspiration sometimes I have a little trouble articulating myself so let me say in this
next giveaway we're not getting paid Ascent we literally negotiated two five-day sailing courses
for free so that two of you can learn how to sell and just get out there like we did this week is
your last chance to enter one of the courses will be going to a subscriber and the other course will
go to a patron all thanks to Mainstay Sailing School in the Whitsundays to enter head over
to our Facebook page and tag a friend on the giveaway post or you can sign up to our crew
on patreon to double your chances again thank you so much to Mainstay sailing for hooking us
up and good luck to everyone who's entered so far we're just very grateful for all of you guys for
following our adventure and for cheering us along the way and watching us make mistakes and learn
and grow and discover a new life I know it's also very cliche but weren't for comments and likes and
yes I finally did it you just got to commit I committed I was like
oh I have a lot to debrief particularly about the sale of Tucana so that kind of hampered the
ability for us to sell the boat a little bit what's coming up next where do you guys plan
to go this year well well the plan is and the places we're going to be taking you to
this year so send us through any of your questions write them below or shoot us a
message over on Instagram and we'll be answering all your questions next week