In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we are preparing our boat for off shore blue water cruising. We get a delivery of technology gadgets from Digital Yacht and we bring Nandji up to the 21st century. Installing a long range wifi antenna and router, a new wind sense on top …

In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we are preparing our yacht for blue water cruising. Nandji’s furler is a home made, rusty old thing that constantly jammed and caused us issues. Something we do not want to make a passage crossing with, so it was time to upgrade. We bought …

In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we are preparing our yacht for blue water cruising. Nandji’s rigging is old and rusty, we broke a shroud a few months ago sailing so for blue water cruising it needed replacing. We decide to do it ourselves to save coin and also learn …

In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we are preparing our yacht for blue water cruising. We prepare the deck for a fresh coat of non-skid using KiwiGrip. Bonita sands the deck and then cleans it using water and then acetone. Yosh then re-seals the fittings with new silicone. We primer …

In this episode of Sailing Nandji, Bonita gets sick of the ongoing boat work and decides she needs a little nature to help her relax. She takes a hike up the Glass House Mountains and watches a beautiful sunset. Yosh returns from working away and is greated with the best …

In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we are preparing our sailboat for her first ocean crossing. Bonita receives new flexible solar panels from Solbian and takes them over to a sail maker – Kore Sails for installation. Aaron from Kore Sails lets Bonita use his sewing machine to sew them …

In this episode of Sailing nandji we are preparing the boat for our first overseas voyage. We show you a little snippet of Marleys day. Yosh is working on lots of differernt jobs around the boat and he takes you through them. Some of the jobs are taking the bimini …

In this episode of Sailing Nandji, Captain Yosh goes away for work and and Bonita and Marley work on small jobs to get Nandji ready for their first offshore cruising voyage. We receive a huge package of rigging from the most generous people, Billy and Brittany in Floria to replace …

In this episode of Sailing Nandji, our work on preparing Nandji for our big voyage is interrupted by a little storm called Cyclone Debbie. Luckily we were 1500km South from where Debbie made landfall, but we still managed to get the aftermath of Debbies wrath. We had winds predicted of …