So what's it really like living on board a boat? Sleeping with a swell, being rocked to sleep,
and then in the morning opening your eyes to this. Out here life is an adventure,
and I get to share it with my best friend. My uber is here.
On this episode we're going to show you why we said yes
to this life. How good is it? And show you how we fill our days with boat jobs from time to time.
Starting in the galley, at the break of dawn. Did you leave that on the end? I suppose.
Today John and I have a bit of maintenance to do on Tucana. Oh my god. A bird literally just
flew in here. What the heck. He wanted my bread. Oh my and he pooed in here. Has that happened to
anyone before? Oh my god. If I had a dollar. He better not have pooed in my hot chocolate.
On our floating home, every day is different. Today we're also celebrating 15 years together.
Oh there it is. You didn't even need me. Oh you didn't even need me. Oh you didn't even need me.
Sometimes I wonder how we've made it this long.
This is the handrail.
So let's share the recipe. I can't see the screwdriver. The secret to our success. That smoothie was so good.
Frozen mango. Banana. Starting with patience. Milk. Coconut milk. Chia pudding. The quality
time we spend together. A little bit of vanilla protein powder. We're also very honest. Do you
I don't think you should.
We're very direct and take the piss.
I think you should patent it and bottle it.
We really are the perfect match. Oh right I've got it.
Since purchasing our 50-foot home, we've gradually showed you how we've gone over our sailboat with a fine toothed comb
and four months on we're still ticking things off John's list of upgrades and repairs
while anchored in the Whitsundays. Today we're replacing the jammers but to get to the underside we have to remove the ceiling's lining.
You have to undo it the boats moving. Alright, alright, alright.
Like all relationships sometimes boat jobs are a pain in the....
John always takes photos of things so he knows how to put them back together which i think is quite genius really
but often i forget and they end up going the wrong place anyway.
Now I don't want to give him a big head but he can actually speak two languages:
Well done. I could give you a longer explanation about what's going on with the transponder but... Nah it sounds...
I think people are going to tune out. Yeah. They'll be like...
Yeh they will.
Many a jobs to be done, so little time.
And so what are you doing now?
Uh I think i've already explained it. Oh okay.
You're probably thinking
gosh what a guy.
But behind every great man is a great woman.
Okay wish me luck. Now i don't want to brag but i feel i do a really good job at stuffing things up.
Everything's sorted here okay.
And that's you know not always a bad thing because you know consequently John has purpose.
He's always there to save the day. Hey john! 97% of the time. John. Oh no i didn't bring
my phone with me. Oh this is, oh dear lord. It's not starting.
Turns out I left the choke out, flooded the engine and so wasn't getting any acceleration. I mean I
could have used the oars I guess but uh this bloke spotted this damsel in distress.
When you send Kristina out for a first solo mission on the tender.
Bloody hell.
How ya going? Yeh good. I'm trying to...
get it to start. I've got the choke out. Do you want me to tow you back to the boat? Is that okay?
Yeah um I'm Kristina by the way. Hey I'm Z. Thanks Z. Are you on this one? Yeh we're on Ozak. Where have you guys come from?
Thank you so much, we owe you a beer. Here you go mate. Have a beer.
I actually thought you would have given him a six-pack if you let me float out there further .
We were just coming out, we just like did a bit of
a provision and I just seen this dingy start drifting.
Thanks Z!
Oh Gosh, that's so embarrassing but what a legend.
If it conks out when you give it like some throttle it's probably because you
flooded it. Like the chokes still out or...
That's the wrong one for a start. Well that's, that was after. That was after the fact.
Okay now try and rev it.
Alright ready?
So just fixing the jammers. So the jammers hold the lines. These jams are starting to
wear out. As you can see on the cams, they're starting to wear and that is
causing the lines to slip through the jammers. Like the halyard, we'd found the halyards
sort of bagging up and it's because it's sipping through the jammer and quite a few of them a
little bit worn. So we're just going to replace out the ones that are worn out. How would you
explain that in layman's terms? I would liken it to a buckle on a seat belt not working properly, maybe
working half the time or sometimes half working. They say that if you've got anything that's
like highly loaded that you should also keep it on the winch. This is a pretty big job too hey?
Yeah, you've got to pull everything apart, clean it, replace all the components that need replacing,
re-seat it, and then seal it up, weatherproof it all. So these are worth $550 each each set
and we've got four so that'll be $2200 to replace all of them excluding labour.
While John's busy on the jammers, I'm off to the supermarket, still nervous steering. Oh, I need to concentrate!
We've filled up on fresh supplies.
Well John doesn't think this is interesting.
Well I think it's interesting.
Census night happens once every five years.
It's about as exciting as filling out a tax return.
It captures a moment in history and this year is obviously going to be interesting because of coronavirus.
The first question says: what is the dwelling address? So what do we type?
Number six crustacean street.
Submit.
So a lot has changed in five years. We now live on the boat. Unemployed. Not making much coin. Pretty much bums.
It's just all boring questions so i think you win that argument John, that was very uneventful.
I can't believe you think census is boring and yet you're about to talk to us about jammers.
I feel like this is like servicing the winches all over again. It is. It's kind of oddly satisfying like it's time-consuming as it is.
The next morning the ceiling was back on and the jammers installed and we're going to take
you sailing to a magic spot in the Whitsundays today.
Our friend Jurgen's coming to join us today but
our place looks like a pigsty so let's do some cleaning up
As you know we're in Queensland and we're about to rip up our anchor off Airlie Beach
and we're going to sail to a place called Chalkies
it's opposite Whitehaven Beach. While it's not as popular with tourists it's a hidden gem
because it still boasts the same white silica sand as its rival beach just
across from it.
And because we're going sailing with Jurgen today we want to make sure the headsail is unfurling properly
because it's been doing this...
John's realized it's because the angle of the halyard was too shallow to the forestay, let me explain.
The halyard was wrapping around the forestay so this new strop John's made has raised the swivel further up the forestay
which would increase the angle and prevent it from wrapping
and hopefully preventing other injury on board.
That's all like ripped skin. That's not too cold. I think it's actually blistered. Yeah it is.
John's made this strop using dyneema. It's stronger than kevlar and it's 15 times stronger than steel.
Well it healed pretty well, but still a few blisters on my fingertips meanwhile John is continuing
doing splicing without a splicing tool. Instead you have a 90 dollar splicing tool that's like a
what do you call that a tap wrench thing. A tap wrench. I don't know what the proper name is.
And just use my fishing scissors and make them blunt.
So we've driven to the marina to meet Jurgen. oh hey Jurgen!
Hey! Thanks for joining us. You might remember Jurgen from episode 10. Hello. Gday.
He's since purchased a beautiful 45-foot Beneteau in Bermuda. He too is a pilot and
used to work with John.
How much berry did you do? 300 mil roughly.
The strop length had to be 600.
All right mate well thanks for that, we'll give it a nudge.
You'll probably be on a youtube video next.
This is Dean, he's a legend.
So up the mast John went. As I go up....
Once this strop was attached, we were off.
Well this is gonna be interesting. I've just been inside doing some editing and the boys have been
taking care of the sails.
They also threw out a lure but it didn't end well. Check it out. The whole trace is completely
chewed off. Teeth marks on the trace and everything as well.
The rods slap against the railing. I was on the phone to Alex and i just looked over and
then the line was just loose. Did we buy more traces? I think we did.
Yeah we've got a whole load of traces yeah. We just need another lour now. That means we won't be having any fish for lunch.
Oh we'll just put the four meter one out. Six meters. Is it? It's a six metre. Oh it dives to 6, that's too deep then.
We need to get a couple of 2m lours. Yeh. Just incase we lose one.
It goes under the water line by two meters.
About five meters John.
Even though we're on a public mooring we're still going to put on the anchor alarm on
our ipad. Because Tucana is about 15 meters I've just put the observed radius on for 20 meters.
Have you ever seen sand that white before? Wow!
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So we just made it to Whithaven but it is pouring!
The boys are trying a new maneuver where we just start sailing off anchor.
So we've just come back and my brother has played some ridiculous practical joke
saying that we're lost at sea on facebook. I'm just about to call him.
What did you do? Hahaha... It's not funny. It is. It's not funny.
We all have different senses of humour.
It looks legitimate though. I was like oh my gosh, Michael is legitimately worried
you need to take it down now. You need to take it down, because if we are actually ever in trouble...
Is he there? Yeah he is. Do you want to speak to him? We're just sailing at the moment.
Michael wants to speak to you. Hey mike.
Oh a bit sunburned mate, we've been drifting on a log for the last week.
I told him to delete it because the boy who cried wolf. Oh yeah next time
when we're missing everyone's gonna be like: that's a nice meme Michael.
I'll take it down. Alright. Oh my gosh. Thank you.
You better include this as part of your Youtube video though, otherwise it's not coming down.
In the next episode, we head to Magnetic Island.
So today i just felt like dressing up a little bit you know.
Where we put out our stern anchor that refuses to come back up.
That's not coming out