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Selling our boat
She sold and our sailing project has come to an end! Our goals evolved as we started to convert our dream into a reality. Grand plans of going across the pacific changed to Tasmania and ended up being just being Sydney. Selling a boat isn’t as easy as selling a car. We needed to have…
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Finally we set sail and test our new systems
It took us a long time to get there. We purchased French Kiss mid 2021 and it’s now October 2022. We have friends coming in a few weeks and we need to make sure that everything works. Do we produce enough electricity for the two of us? Is our electronic installation reliable? Can we actually…
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Replacing our windlass
One of the first projects we did on our boat was to get windlass back in working order. The boat had an old Muir Atlantic 850, which was seized and no longer functioning. Our ground tackle consisted of a 16kg (35lb) Manson NZ plough anchor and 30m of 10mm chain. The considerations that had to…
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Our boat, French Kiss
Our boat search went fairly quick, Covid-19 created such a demand on the market that good boats weren’t lasting more than a few days online so when one came up that met our needs we jumped on it. Let’s make something clear, we did NOT rename the boat. French Kiss is a Beneteau Oceanis 361…
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Two foreigners who met in London in 2016, got married in Brisbane in 2021. Erica is American, Nico is French and British. Here is our blog.
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