Hi my name's Kristina and this is my partner John. Together we're searching for
a home that lives on the water. We've just packed up our entire lives,
we're leaving our place, packing up. We're gonna miss these views.
And we're about to set out on a mission to sail from Melbourne, along the east coast of Australia,
up to North Queensland and beyond. I just put my career on pause
and resigned from my job as a tv journalist. And they do some crazy stunts.
And John is having a break as a pilot. We've worked hard and we've saved and now
we're ready to sail into the unknown - hoping for adventure. So we just packed up our entire lives.
I hope this is the right decision. Do you think this is the right decision?
Lunch is the right decision, let's go!
Most of what we own is now in storage.
What happened?
And here's just some of our stuff.
We've swapped our apartment and it's beautiful views to move on board.
And welcome to our chaotic new home
For a different type of lifestyle. We have our eye on Tucana.
She's not ours just yet but the owner has allowed us to stay on board to get a feel for the place
before we go unconditional. How are you going babe? I don't even know where the light switches are.
Well welcome into your new home. First night on the boat.
Careful, careful. There's a catch here!
Today's the day. We will find out if we'll be boat owners i suppose after the survey.
so we're just waiting for the surveyor to show up and he's going to look over the boat and make sure that it's
sound and in working order and whatever's wrong with the boat, he'll let us know.
So we're just about to take it into the sling and it's about to get its belly looked at.
So exciting. So nerve-racking.
Whoa! It's like the size of our apartment. The guys are just spraying down the hull of
the boat at the moment because it has a bit of growth on it.
But other than that it looks pretty good. There are a few minor issues but the owner is trying
to sort them out now. It is a 50-footer, and did I mention that today is April Fool's Day?
Kristina: You like it? Michael: The boat looks phenomenal.
Kristina: Yeah? It looks nice huh? Michael: Yeah, it does, it does.
Mum: It's so cool. I think it's gorgeous.
The survey's just been done. He thinks that it's a good boat for us.
There might be like a few things that we have to obviously get done but yeah fingers crossed...
and we think we can definitely make it work. Like it is so big for us, like 50 foot, but yeah we're ready for the challenge.
And with that, we confirmed with the owner it was a done deal.
What are you emailing him? He's already emailed me, hang on.
What's he saying? I'm trying to text him, write an email and read his email.
He said, "Hey guys, glad you are happy with the boat. As discussed...
Looking forward to 'Son of Sam' and 'Tucana' meeting in some far away anchorage and rafting up while drinking scotch.
Oh that's so nice. That's the best part.
Do you mind?
The next morning we got straight into it and settled in.
Just cleaning the fridge.
What are you doing? You can't get the water tank open.
Yeah we're going to hope to get the rigging done and the antifoul.
We have to take it out of the water. You just have to get it done to protect the hull.
Oh okay. I think that will take like two weeks and then we'll get going.
The hot water is not working unless we run the engine so John's going to try and fix that up
and it's just a couple of leaks that we want to get fixed as well and we need to polish the boat.
That should be good. Michael: And then you'll make your way up to Sydney?
Yeh, we'll make our way along the coast to Queensland.
Are you going to come join us?
Michael: I'll come for my birthday in July.
Oh yeah, that would be good.
We are off to the bank now. We're going to transfer all the funds necessary
into the brokers like trust account and then yeah tomorrow we sign all the documents and we
proceed. John has written the most incredible list of all the things that we have to do
so i might just grab it at some stage and read it out so you can understand like how
overwhelming it is. So I just wanted to update you guys on that and we're off to the bank!
Our yacht came with six life jackets so we're just doing some self checks just to make sure
that they don't have any holes on them. If they are still inflated in the morning well that's a good sign
but we also still may need to get some extra parts as well.
Good morning. Good morning.
Today is a special day, isn't it? Specialist of days.
We now own the boat. Not yet.
Not yet? What do you mean? What do you mean not yet?
Settlement has not yet occurred.
And now that the boat is officially ours i've just been in the kitchen
and reorganizing all the drawers.
Oh my gosh, they're getting absolutely smashed .
Some of these boats fenders are just deflated.
Subscribe as we hope to set sail on this epic adventure.