Sailing Alone - Ep 67

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Sailing alone
This week I'm sailing Alone. Rob has abandoned ship, deserting his wife and children, and flown back to New Zealand. While he’s away we are going to reflect on what brought us to this point; we are going to use this opportunity to grow, to learn from our mistakes and avoid making them in the future. It is important to remind ourselves that we can, and we will get through this difficult experience to emerge stronger and better Kite Surfers – Yeeeehaa! When the cat’s away the mice will play, Ilot Maitre here we come to hone our kite surfing skills.
Music:
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Josh Garrels = Born again (Musicibed)
The Brook the Blugg – Everything is just a mess (Musicibed)
Sailr – Heartbeat (Musicibed)
David Mumford – Ball & Chain (Creative Commons)

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WHO ARE WE?
In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014, we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert'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 our boat before heading offshore with our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow.
Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. 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 will re trace 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.

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