What’s it like being a liveaboard on a sailing boat for 21 years? This sailing journey chapter wraps up life as a liveaboard.
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Let’s continue the lessons learnt in this Part 2 of the sailing journey series.
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You learn a plethora of lessons and skills when you live on a boat. Especially, when you choose to live aboard for 21 years.
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Selling the home-built SV Naiad – 34′ Bruce Roberts Motor Sailor – is a bittersweet and emotional moment, especially after 20 years as our home.
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The sailing journey continues with this chapter landing in New York and ready to buy a bigger boat…
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The sailing journey continues with the revelation that Naiad – our home-built sailing boat and home – isn’t big enough. Gonna need a bigger boat!
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If you own a boat, then you will inevitably experience slipway woes at some point in your life, as related in this chapter of the sailing journey.
Sailing Journey: Outrunning a Cyclone
Time is not on our side. This sailing journey chapter continues with the dangers and frustrations of outrunning a cyclone.
Sailing Journey: Extending the Boat
This sailing journey chapter sees Naiad (boat) marooned in Townsville for longer than expected, for the gruelling completion of its 6-foot extension.
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Sailing north to Australia’s remote and stunning Lizard Island off far north Queensland’s picturesque coastline…
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Sailing Journey: Townsville to Lizard Island
Dabbling in another chapter of the sailing journey series. This episode takes you on an adventure of fabulous coastal sailing from Townsville to gorgeous Lizard Island in far north Queensland. Lizard is one of my favourite spots.
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Sailing Journey: Brisbane to Townsville
The sailing journey continues after living in Brisbane for a couple of years and setting sail for some extended cruising to Townsville, far north Queensland.
Sailing Journey: Sydney to Brisbane
After 9.5 long years of building the boat, it’s time to start the sailing journey along Australia’s extensive eastern coast from bustling Sydney to calmer Brisbane.
Sailing Journey: Liveaboard in Sydney
So, what’s it like living aboard an unfinished boat on Sydney Harbour during the late 1980s to early 1990s?
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This chapter of the sailing journey takes you through the pain and joys of finishing the boat without electricity and using only hand tools, whilst on anchor in Sydney Harbour.
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