If you have got too comfortable swimming with the current or feel that your stuck in a rut, then have we got the show for you.
Rob has returned to New Caledonia after two weeks in New Zealand and he's got company.
This week we welcome Keith, Rob’s cousin, and his youngest daughter Brooke, to the boat.
Brooke brings a cold with her, for which Rob has the perfect herbal remedy and Keith brings a healthy dose of philosophy, brought on by this sailing life. Keith gets to thinking about whether people get too comfortable going with the flow and whether it is time to consider other options. Keith has also arrived with a healthy appetite. If he’s not tucking into a plate of plankton omelette with Rob, then he’s enjoying a piece of hemp chocolate in his pursuit for happiness. It’s gotta be good for you.

Music
Luna Keller – I don’t know where I’m going
Lone Waves – We can run away -Musicbed
JJ Heller – Save me – Musicbed
Kylie Odette – Only gets better - Musicbed
David Mumford – Ball and Chain – Creative Commons Music

WHO ARE WE?
In 1997, after a disastrous Olympic rowing campaign, Rob decided to row a seven-metre plywood boat, 2500 miles from Tenerife in the Canary Islands to Barbados in the Caribbean. It took 6 weeks and he and his rowing partner, Phil Stubbs, won the inaugural Atlantic Rowing Race.
Skip forward to 2014, we invested in Javelot a 43 ft Fountaine Pajot catamaran. Armed only with Robert's 3 years of racing P class yachts from the age of 11 to 13, and Rachel's non existent sailing knowledge, we set off to learn the ropes of ocean sailing. We broke stuff, replaced stuff and got to know our boat before heading offshore with our three children, Finn 17, Declan 15 and Ivan 12, in tow.
Through trial and error, we have become confident wayfarers, kind of.
Our plan? To sail around the world, meet the locals and record our adventures. Part of the journey will be retracing Rob’s eldest brother Kerry’s travels at sea. Using Kerry’s original letters from the 1970’s we will re trace his movements from Australia through Indonesia and South East Asia to Cambodia where Kerry’s life was cut short after straying into Cambodian waters in 1978. Kerry and two friends were attacked by a Khmer Rouge gun boat, captured, tortured and executed.

*****
Follow us in real time on Instagram and Facebook
@thecruisingkiwis
@finn_hamill
@declan_hamill

Never stop wandering, never stop wondering.

#TheCruisingKiwis