On this episode we're actually going to spill the beans and tell you our plans for the next
six months.
Where are we going to sail to next? Is Tucana going to be our forever home?
But first we're going to start the day off right, you can't have serious
deep and meaningful conversations on an empty stomach. They never go down well.
So as part of our morning routine we'll first cook up a storm in the galley, and then I'll
drop the bombshell you may or may not have seen coming.
We're in the Great Barrier Reef heading south to escape Cyclone season in the tropics. Today our goal is to make it to Keswick Island.
One of my favorite contraptions in a kitchen is this. Not sure if it's an Aussie thing or not but it's a toaster.
And so I literally just put it on the gas stove like this and as you can see starts to get really hot.
Toast cooks in like 30 seconds. Just lay them on top like that and when I'm ready I'll just, oh!
Like that!
It's the perfect solution when you don't have power or the inverter on.
All right.
Just make sure you turn off the gas.
Hello.
So from eggs to spilling beans, I'll break up the announcement into two parts.
Got my music in my ears, and sun shining. It's all getting a little emotional at the moment.
We've got to weigh up all these options of work. Are we able to keep the boat and continue sailing which is definitely what we want to do.
You see I quit so I don't really have to go back to a job and this has accidentally become my new one.
But for John as an airline pilot he was able to put his career on ice for one whole year during the pandemic
but now if you've been to any airport lately it is chaos.
Massive flight delays long lines lost luggage at the peak of the travel season.
There have been job shortages and Aviation can also be a difficult industry to get into.
Being a pilot isn't an easy task here in Australia it's not like you can just quit and then get back into the industry like that.
He's very lucky he's got a great job with a reputable Airline, one of the biggest in Australia.
So what we're thinking is: John will go back to flying and then while he's at work I'm going to continue editing our sailing videos.
I'm a little behind so a break from the water will allow me to catch up to real time.
In other words I'll still be posting weekly so if I time it properly there'll be no break between our Aussie adventure
and our upcoming Euro trip.
John's taking leave next year but my ultimate dream would be for us to convince him to take another little career break
so that we can focus on YouTube full-time together.
I don't want to have to go out on my own because that could be a disaster.
When you send Kristina out for a first solo mission on the tender.
How you going? I'm trying to...
Bloody hell.
As some of you may know we had a dream of one day buying a boat over in Europe and then the pandemic hit.
John was stood down from his job without pay and after months of lockdown we packed up
our apartment and purchased Tucana in Australia. We left our home with a couple of weeks sailing experience.
We've since sailed up the coast of Australia to the Great Barrier Reef but now that
travel and borders are back open again we want to pursue the original plan and get to Europe.
If you watched our Greece series a few months back we had a taste in the Cyclades when we charted a
boat with Navigare and it was a real eye-opener. like it was our first time sailing overseas and
sailing another boat. And to be honest we think about getting back there every day.
Trying to work out a way whereby we can continue sailing and following our passions and exploring the
world with you guys.
For it to work we're going to be saving up for the next adventure we can't wait to share all the details with you
but I want to take a second to thank you for for subscribing for sharing our videos with your friends for chatting with us in the comments
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it's the reason why we make these videos and keep coming back every week.
Kristina's been down here editing.
I've been editing all day so John's the captain of the ship
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share extra behind the scenes content and plan to do live chats.
Trying to work out different ways of how we can make this to continue to work.
So what does the future hold for our boat Tucana? Well I'll save that for part two,
just give me a couple of minutes while we approach and anchor off Keswick Island.
So we are just arriving to Keswick. Looks like it's going to be pretty busy. I'm just gonna put the
sails down. Taking the main sheet off, and getting ready to furl the heady away first.
Well we've heard that the snorkeling's pretty good here. So we might be able to go for a dip we'll have to take
the tender off the bow because we put it away this morning because this was about a four or five hour sail.
We didn't want to drag it behind us the whole way. Beautiful blue water here. It's currently high tide.
Keswick is a green, lush, Great Barrier Reef Island. 80% of it is National Park
while the other 20% was recently purchased by Oasis Forest,
formerly China Bloom as part of a 99-year lease for 20 million dollars.
There's a massive fringing reef so you can't tuck into far. Yeah right. It's gonna be interesting.
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With the head sail furled and preventer packed away, we then turned into wind. It's bloody windy.
A lot going on here. Centred the boom.
And brought down the Mainsail.
As I winch in the main sheet you can see the boom centers.
I then swap out the line with the main halyard to lower the sail.
Sometimes if there is too much load on the Jammer it won't open so I have to take the load off by winching it a little more.
The Jammer then opens with ease.
Are you going to go up?
Allowing me to lower the sail.
You got it?
Which falls into the boom bag.
With the engine on we're still moving through the water towards the Anchorage so it's my turn
to get the snubber and get to the bow. All right so we are getting ready to Anchor. That's what
about 50 meters of chain looks like. I should mention a few weeks back, John attempted to
install a chain counter which would allow him to raise and lower the anchor remotely from the helm,
so he wouldn't need to rely on me to use this control at the bow. At the time of installation
I had an epiphany. So John's just installed the chain counter and I've realized something.
Am I useless to you now? What do you mean? Well the fact you have a chain counter.
No. Nobody can count chains quite like you can.
And it turns out I'm more reliable. We didn't get around to troubleshooting the new chain counter and here I am counting the chain.
Now I don't want to get too big for my boots but John and I aren't saying eye to eye on something.
I honestly think it should be a legal requirement for people to have binoculars on board.
I just got these from Adelaide my mum had a spare pair and my eye [ __ ] eyesight is
Eyesight isn't good. It's poor. And I take these out every single day now. I bloody love them.
But John your eyesight's pretty amazing. You can't make everything a legal requirement though can you?
You can't mandate everything.
Who thinks that it should be a legal requirement? You know what the problem with this being a legal requirement is that
That would, that would....
Well we've settled in so let's get on to part two.
Where we talk about the future of Tucana. It's quite the bombshell some of you may or may not have seen it coming.
John and I have gone over this decision a million times, it's a real fork in the road for us
but we've come to the conclusion with new opportunities arising we're going to be selling Tucana.
We have some really exciting sailing plans for Europe in the pipeline. There's a lot of work happening in
the background as we speak ahead of this next adventure. We're gonna make a few phone calls this week.
So how did these decisions all come about? While we were in Annapolis we met some amazing people and we struck up an
incredible idea. So as soon as we can, we'll tell you more about this really exciting collaboration
but more on that later, for now on the map where about here
and we still have to sail all the way down here to Brisbane
where we're going to be selling Tucana while the market is still hot.
As you guys know we started sailing with pretty much no experience and every week you've encouraged us in the comments section
reminding us of how much we've progressed.
It's been really encouraging because when you live and breathe it every day you forget how far you've come.
Wait for us to go through.
But now's not the time for us to get complacent, because we will be hit by unforgiving storms over the next few months together.
There's a lot more to learn.
It is bucketing down.
Stick with us as we make our way down south.
The storm's definitely came.
And with some luck sell Tucana in Brisbane.
But we have to get there first and this new season bringing swell is a whole new ball game.
Not feeling great at the moment
feeling a little bit seasick for the first time in a while.
Probably a bit out of practice.
Yeah a bit out of practice in this weather.
Haven't had swell like this in a while we've been very very blessed and lucky haven't we.
The Season's sort of changing and we just got the life jackets out with the tethers as well just in case things get a little
bit unsettled. You know there's a fine line where you feel like you need to start getting prepared.
So we're checking the Bureau of meteorology site frequently.
How would you describe the Bureau of meteorology it's like a government facilitated weather.
Maybe people over in America they wouldn't would they? Would they call it the Bureau of Meteorology in the U.S and
in the UK?
Anyway we're checking that. We've got the full main out at the moment so we're thinking that we might have to put a reef in
at some stage. And before we arrive to Middle Percy I just want to say thank you for continuing to support us through this next phase.
These next few months as we try to get to Tucana back in one piece.
Oh gosh this is a well and truly stuck.
It's stuck. I was just gonna ask can you can you please do this.
Yeah now.
Okay. See if you can do it.
Your eyes look really blue today.
Why am I fixing this, you fix it.
Come back. I'm laughing because you fix everything on the boat. You're
You're the fix it.
See you fix everything on this boat.
You see it's not about the destination it's the journey and we have a long way to go I hope you're excited to jump on board for the ride
We put a lot of love and heart into them...
Why is your face so yellow? What happened?
Is it really? Is my face yellow? I put fake tan on it yesterday and John thinks I look like an Oompa Loompa