Your Questions answered about our Liveaboard Sailing Lifestyle - Q & A Part 1 – S 2 Ep 4

 

After a number of comments on our Dreamtime Sail social media, we invited people to send us the questions they would like answered about our sailing, live aboard lifestyle, boat and any other aspect of cruising. In this Part One video we begin answering those questions about our sailing history, land base situation, sea sickness, crewing on other people’s boats, challenges of living aboard, night passages, what rig we use to catch all our fish, why we bought a ketch, how our in-boom furling mainsail works, using our stay sail, solar power, what we’re always fixing onboard and if we would recommend buying a boat in the Mediterranean like we did. We hope you’ll find Part One of our Q & A interesting.

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We were asked what sailing experience we had before buying a boat and explained we started by doing our RYA courses up to Coastal Skipper in 2010

Our first crewing was on this Benneteau 57 from Cairns to Bali via Darwin in 2011.

We then joined the 50ft ketch Atlantia from Bali to Malaysia

We completed our South East Asian sailing adventure by racing the Oyster 56 'Curious' in the Kings Cup Regatta in Phuket Thailand

The happy Curious crew celebrating a 2nd place finish

Conditions ranged from no wind to 25 knots on different days

We then flew to Venice to join a 72 Shipman and sailed to Tunisia via Malta then onto Sardinia  the Balaeric Islands and Spain

We gained invaluable experience on Moksha sailing with a Professional Skipper, Tim.

Our final crewing positions were back on Curious sailing her from Gibraltar across the Bay of Biscay to Dartmouth, London and finally Ipswich in the UK.

We were privileged to be on Curious in St Kats Dock next to the Tower Bridge in London surrounded by famous boats assembled for the Queen's Jubilee celebrations.

Robin Knox Johnston with Suhaili that sailed to became the first person in the world to complete a
non-stop solo circumnavigation of the globe

We even got a bit of press back home

Rob and our crew mate Marc applying Alcheringa's new name after purchase in Palma Mallorca

Alcheringa was a 2006 Jeanneau 43 Deck Salon

We sailed Alcheringa around the Med for two years. Here Karen enjoys some sun of Ibizza.

Crossing the Straits of Gibraltar is often a game of dodge ems.

Alcheringa anchored off Isla de Dino on the southern Italian coast.

Another question was what lead us to buy our ketch 'Our Dreamtime'

You will have to watch the video to get the answer to
that and a number of other questions we were asked. 

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