HAUNTED by our first Offshore Sail... | Sailing Thailand, Ep 175

Our first offshore sail still haunts us to this day! Lets learn from our mistakes... https://www.sailingnandji.com/ This video was filmed early Febuary before the global pandemic really took off. Thailand was one of the first countries affected and we took the adequate precautions early to protect ourselves. In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we have been sitting at anchor in Thailand completing the final jobs on the list to get our Nandji ready for the massive task of sailing across the Indian Ocean. We have completed a long list of jobs and slowly but surely we are closer to complete. After having a disastrous first offshore sail to New Caledonia where we are still haunted to this day, we thought we needed to change a few things. Our head sail halyard snapped, resulting in us fishing the genoa out of the ocean. Yosh then trying to climb the mast in rough seas and nearly hurting himself, to then having a smaller and less reliable head sail hoisted for the passage equalling in a longer passage against the trades and hand steering the whole 9 days.... We therefore wanted to take as many measures as possible for a back up in case this happens again. Therefore we install a secondary headsail halyard. Check out our first offshore sail here... PROBLEMS AT SEA & 50 KNOTS! 9 days to New Caledonia https://youtu.be/188nXnqbvE0 With no sailing experience, we bought a yacht, got it blue water cruising ready and set off from Australia sailing to the Pacific! We have since cruised through New Caledonia, Vanuatu, the Solomon islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and then onto the boat yard in Malaysia to prepare for the years to come. With a new engine, we continued onto Thailand, then back down into Indonesia and specifically West Sumatra to live the island life and chase the surf. With our Sailing plans changing, we returned to Thailand to wait for the weather and begin our journey to the northern route of the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka before heading south across the Indian Ocean once cyclone season has finished and the trade winds begin! The adventure is just beginning as we plan to sail our Nandji girl around the world!! We departed the east coast of Australia in July 2017 and have since sailed over 10000nm offshore. We have explored some amazing countries and met some beautiful people along the way. We have experienced so many different and diverse cultures, dived pristine reefs, surfed solo in the middle of nowhere, spent weeks at sea, dealt with storms, big waves, strong winds and had the time of our lives doing it! The adventure is just beginning as we sail West with the trades around the World! SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL. https://www.youtube.com/c/frothlyfesailingnandji CLICK THE BELL to know when NEW Nandji videos are up! For many small vids and awesome pictures! https://www.instagram.com/sailing_nandji Marley's on The gram too! @SaltydogMarley Be sure to like us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/sailingnandji Follow us on Twitter! https://twitter.com/sailingnandji Subscribe to our Newsletter for updates on our adventures! https://www.sailingnandji.com Grab some Sailing Nandji merch and help support our adventures! https://sailingnandji-shop.com Cheers legends! Thanks for watching Sailing Nandji, if you liked our video please subscribe to our channel. Help us reach 100k followers and spread the Nandji love!!! Once we reach 100k subs, we will DONATE $500 to One Tree Planted to plant 500 trees! https://www.youtube.com/c/frothlyfesailingnandji If you are getting something out of our videos, please become a Patron to help support our production and adventures. Get Unseen footage, Exclusive vids and the inside scoop! http://www.patreon.com/Nandji If you enjoyed this video, We are still HAUNTED to this day | Sailing Thailand from Sailing Nandji, Click the link below and view it again! Yew! https://youtu.be/EUwIAbbO0wU