After what seems like months of preparation, the day is drawing closer when I set off on a delivery trip from the Gold Coast in Queensland to Tahiti, French Polynesia. The boat is a 43' trimaran that the American owners bought in Townsville 2 years ago and haven't seen since because of the COVID pandemic. That's where I come in, getting it to Tahiti where they can fly in and take delivery of the boat.

Under normal circumstances, I'd take some crew but these aren't normal times. With having to get permission to actually leave the country, the hoops you have to jump through to enter Tahiti and the cost of the airfares back to Australia, it was just much easier to do the trip on my own. Solo sailing is not uncommon!

I've been on the boat for the past 10 days just getting it ready to the point I'm satisfied it's in great shape to sail half way across the Pacific.

A 12 Month "Big Lap" Circumnavigating Australia

Nathalie And I Will Sail On A Lagoon 52 Catamaran

April 2019 to May 2020

It's not every day you are presented with the opportunity to sail around Australia. It wasn't on my list of things to do but we jumped at the chance when it was offered to us and now it all starts from April this year. It's going to be quite an epic journey, taking 12 months if it all goes to plan. Nathalie and I will be acting as crew onboard.