Sailing family truth about living on a catamaran for 5 years!

Описание: Family survive 5 years living on sailboat at sea

We have owned our sailboat nine years and for the past five years we have been full time live aboard sailors on a bid to circumnavigate the world. Our first bluewater experience was eight years ago when we set sail for seven months, sailing from New Zealand to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and New Caledonia then back to New Zealand. We have survived storms, a lightening strike, sails ripping, our own selves for company and recently a near drowning. At times we have made stupid mistakes, but we get lots of things right too, taking the slow route around the world.

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Rob, Rachel, Finn, Declan, Ivan
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BACK STORY
In 1997, after rowing at the Atlanta Olympics, Rob rowed a tiny 7m (22 foot) plywood boat 2,500 miles from Tenerife (Canary Islands) to Barbados (Caribbean). It took six weeks for Rob and rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, to complete winning the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.

Skip forward to 2014 and, married with three children, Rob and his wife Rachel purchased Javelot, a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Rob's 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel's non existent sailing knowledge, We set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know their boat before heading offshore with the kids, Finn (then 13), Declan (then 11) and Ivan (then 8), in tow. Through trial and error we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
The plan? To sail around the world.
Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we hope to retrace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed. www.brothernumberone.co.nz
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