G'day! We're Beef & Jana! Thanks for dropping by... C'mon in, the weathers fine!
2 years ago we miraculously survived a head-on car crash in the remote Western Australia desert. We got a second chance at life & a massive wake up call; we decided life's too short to save our dreams for retirement so we've gone done did it! We've learned the sailing basics, flew to Florida and bought ourselves a beautiful 43 Morgan named Don Quijote.
Our adventure begins in Australia and continues in Florida, the Bahamas & beyond where we learn first hand how to go about buying a boat in the USA and making her into our nautical home. We can hear the whisper of perfect waves & coral reefs teeming with marine life beckoning us... & we are on our way! We're all about simple & sustainable, surfing, sailing & freediving.
Join us from the beginning and peek inside our journey; a Canadian & Aussie buy a sailboat & sail off into the sunset... or something like that!
I owned a Morgan 43 1985, Royal Treat, for 20 years and I loved that boat. Cruising and lived aboard for many years, Fun to watch you guys loving the same things as me.....
Brahh im from Puerto Rico and have donde so much research just to find out that the closest I’ve seen on the maps is sandy point, Santa Cruz right next to PR jaja great not showing the location but yet again it’s gotta be just perfect and gotta put in some time and work to score it! Not everyone able to be there but would love te get the opportunity
That’s not Sandy Point, but I lived there for 4 years and scored it twice after passing hurricanes. Fun fact: it’s featured in the final scene of the Shawshank Redemption, and so is Grassy Point when Andy is driving along the coast. I’m cruising the comments looking for hints of this wave. 🤙🏼🤙🏼🌴🌊🏄🏼🌋
Well done on some great videos we are hoping to get a boat in the next couple of years and get out of the rat race and go exploring. We also have almost zero sailing experience other than some hobie sailing on the Goldie and it was great to see you guys do it and learn as you go. Get back out there and make some more video’s please. WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! WE WANT MORE! Lol 😂 Hope the lil grom is doing well 🍻🍻
Great vid, may I ask where you had the cover hole punched for fitting the pump? I am planning on having that done and would prefer to have someone experienced to do so. TIA!
@@nautinooksailingadventures3533 No worries for the timing, lol. considering it was 3 years ago for your posting I'm lucky and appreciative you responded at all. In fact I'd say that was pretty darn quick. Cheers!
yeah too far retarded and it smokes like that. too far advanced and it clatters badly. Yes you can adjust thru the water pump hole with the three bolts in the slotted gear.
@@liannannette359 I surfed that spot when hurricane Erin (Cat 1) ripped through there in 1995...straight bombs rolling in. I couldn't imagine paddling out with a Cat 5 on deck. Nope
I explored the Bahamas in the late 70s/ early 80s looking for surf. San Salvador is well off the beaten path and has some pretty good surf sometimes. Conch salad is so good, you must try!
next time!! we didn’t make it to San Salv that trip but have heard good things, who knows what the future holds!! it must have been a paradise back then, you are very lucky!
it was a nightmare - we got a mechanic who had a big breaker bar - he locked the transmission at the prop shaft somehow with timber blocks from memory? with a big extension bar and the perfect size socket he got it a lot easier than I ever could have, it was beyond my abilities - as for the leaky seal mine does too maybe they all do? good luck mate!
Nice tour. Ours is similar. 91 Morgan 44 CC. I wish the previous owners had as much love for the boat as yours did. Ours suffered from a little bit of neglect. We need to replace our water tanks but access looks pretty difficult. Any experience with that?
Hi Scott! very cool hope we share an anchorage someday... it’s very true that you’re buying the boat off the previous owner as much as you’re buying the actual boat... we were very lucky fortunately we haven’t had issues with our water tanks as yet - touch wood - but similarity to you, it looks like it would be a massive job... good luck with it all
Love the rant. So true. Spent months anchored in Hatchet Bay hitching and walking up to surfers beach as well as surfing hatchet beach right there behind the power plant. Really enjoy your videos. I was full time love aboard for 13 years now living vicariously through you. Built a house on Long Island, if you get back to the Bahamas I’d be stoked to show you around. Cheers!
Man that wave looked super fun! You did really well in less than ideal conditions, discretion definitely the better part of valour at that spot for sure...you'd best wear a lid next time you visit now there's more responsibility!good on ya both 👍🤙kudos for not revealing the location too👏 wouldn't have minded a tiny clue though 😆 I was even trying to read your drivers t-shirt!!🧐😉
@@nautinooksailingadventures3533 agreed! While checking the righthander at CGB by satellite , there looks to be a very good reason to check out the next bay around to the north aswell!😉🤙
@@nautinooksailingadventures3533 no but I'll have to check that bay too!...the one I mean is much much closer to CGB there's not alot to see on Google earth but check out Zoom earth and it's very interesting! May be called 'brewers Bay'?😁🤙
yep i know the one - we anchored right inside CGB, there’s a few bars & restaurants there, Brewers is to the north of the bay i think & not a lot there, maybe some accomodation but I think they surf there too although it would be bigger than CGB in a big north swell...
Can't wait for the rest of this but after 2min 17sec I'm thinking 'helmet!'..but you're not oblivious to the risk as you mentioned so good luck and get out there!😃I'm buzzing to see what happens! Yeeew!👍🤞
Man you sure scored there! It's been a dream for many years to experience a good surf at this spot, but trying to time a short trip there with swell makes it one hell of a gamble, I guess the answer would be to go for a loooong trip!😀👍🤙
@@nautinooksailingadventures3533 thanks for the tip🙂immediately I'm going to have to add another month minimum! Hmmm a 3month trip to such a great place.. what months would you want to be there ideally?...surfing as much as is possible everywhere and what money is needed?!!..any info would be brilliant 👍🤙⛵
the winter swells are what you’re after as I think it’s pretty flat most of the time otherwise - we were there in january / feb & got some decent 10-15 ft swells roll through... it is expensive - we stayed on the boat so I can’t comment on accomodation but food prices are also pretty expensive. the best bet if flying to tortola is $$ is flying to st thomas & getting the ferry across ..
3,364 views with only 1690 subscribers, come on people subscribe and support these aussie battlers so we can keep watching dreaming of doing the same. It is 7/1/21 at time of commenting and have binge watched all your adventures as they are better than anything on TV. I know that you are now back on the sunny coast with a baby but would love to see you doing this full time like BOAB, free range, old sea dog ect.
I know this episode is a year old, but you wanted comments. Chill Chill Chill. I think life in a little marina in DR with BOAB as neighbors would beat the stress of living on the sunny coast in 2021any time. I had a business there and can remember the days when a drive down nicklin way from M<dore to Caloundra was a 10min trip. Get back on your boat and find a place that the SC used to be like before it was invaded by mexicans.
life in the DR was an adventure and we are gagging to be back on the boat! the sunny coast is good to us though, doesn’t hold a candle for the traffic of the GC or Sydney! so we are pretty lucky 🍀 where are you these days?
You got mentioned on BOAB. And your aussie so watching you from the start. Its been on my bucket list, and I am closer than you to kicking that bucket.
FINALLY another video! Nice hair cut uncle ding bat I'm laughing my head off! Mako attacked that camera with his foot, and his stinky farts like a shark! I could smell them from here! And we're across the ocean! Can't wait to meet the little shark! He'll fit right in our family if he keeps up the farts! Sweet waves! Wish we were there with you for Christmas! Love you and miss you guys tones! Again, congrats on Mako. You guys are great parents and any child is lucky to have you guys in they're lives. Love you miss you guys tones! xoxo - Journey
Journey girl you are the cutest and sweetest we love you so much! can’t wait for you to smell Makos farts in the flesh x Merry Christmas to my favourite Albertans xo
Love you guys! We are part time cruising with a new baby and an antique Perkins 4107. Carpenteering in the off season for bread too! We’ve only made it to the Bahamas so far but you guys are seriously inspiring and we love watching anything you put up. Maybe we will meet you someday! Dan and Emily Sv santosha
Hi Dan & Emily, sounds like we have heaps in common! we were just reminiscing about the bahamas the other day, don’t rush it! you’ll never find anywhere quite like it! Hope we can share an anchorage someday so our perkins & our bubs can meet each other!
So adorable to see you guys 💓- much love to Mako Baby. A lot of Sailing kids in our future, can’t wait! Btw the editing is awesome, professional and smoooooooooth 😘😘😘
