Sailing Through Squalls & Leaving Our Plaque at the Famous Percy Island Yacht Club

Episode 386 : Season 12 : Sailing Australia
Hello Friends,
On this episode we haul up the anchor in 30 knot gusts and sail off into a squally day. We had fantastic sailing wind and the air was warm so the rain didn't bother us much. This turned out to be one of our favorite sailing days of the year! Soon we were approaching Middle Percy Island and got the hook dropped at West Bay.
I had read about Middle Percy Island in the book "Around the World in Wanderer III" by Eric Hiscock from their visit here in 1955. I was eager to see if the old telephone booth from the book was still onsite. We had also heard about the famous Percy Island Yacht Club, which is a simple A-frame structure and were interested to see all of the signs and mementos from cruisers who have visited over the years. We had prepared our own plaque to leave with the collection, a fun nautical tradition amongst cruising sailors the world over.
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[@RumaNanuk]

Great episode, guys! :) At 17m20s you can see the propellor from our yacht "Moonshine" hanging in the Yacht Club. The missing blade is in the bottom of West Bay. Happy travels to you both. From David the bus driver on Maggie Island :)

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Such a rad place!! Haha that’s awesome, probably not so awesome when the prop popped however!! 😅

[@leoncountytoday]

One of your very best. Great sailing footage and real world exploration rather that tourist lures. Thanks and fair winds

[@SailorJames]

super stoked on this episode, it’s got everything I love about this life in it !

[@mscali6397]

30:19 😂 You both are such a joy & the journey your endeavoring upon. How grateful I am you exist & travel the seas! 💕🦋⛵✌️🤙

[@SMETSYSGNIMIT]

Your channel is truly amazing. Great content mixed with some history and a few sailing lessons. Great job as always.

[@SailorJames]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@Ollieverse-369]

Enjoyed you reading the passage from the Hiscock’s book. Doing so on the same spot made history come alive for me. Great video!

[@bruceday450]

great music great ep. Love the rain and wave sounds

[@SailorJames]

Thanks 🙏🏻

[@tarapayne4945]

Always a delightful ride! Be Well-Stay Happy Guys! and Thank You!

[@julieh65]

Really enjoyed this video James & Rhonda. Abit of history along the way, awesome.

[@alsauce87]

I always feel like I’m part of the crew when watching. Awesome content as always shipmates!

[@SailorJames]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@isabelleb.1270]

I might have a big ego after all, but damn how happy I am to read : « and thank you the viewers !» in the intro ! Of course creators need more support than just viewers -and I thank ALL your Patreons for helping you and allowing me to follow your adventures... but I feel less guilty not being able to pay . So THANK YOU ! I love your nonchalante intelligence, your pace, your free spirit , the absence of fake smile- Rhonda included. As Montaigne said : « His quick wit gave the lie to his nonchalant demeanor. » 🧡✨

[@SailorJames]

Almost half of my income comes from ad revenue from VIEWERS like you! So it does help me a ton for all of you who watch the videos so I am indeed grateful for the support 🙏🏻

[@michaelheffner2853]

Thank u for doing all the extra work it takes in order to bring us along with u…wishing u full sails!! We really enjoys ur videos..well done sir…well done indeed ⛵️

[@SailorJames]

Thank you 🙏🏻

[@scottwilson7835]

Hello James, thank you for refreshing my memory learning new things too. Hope you've had relaxing passages with capable sharp crew to share the passage keeping. Fair winds!

[@SailorJames]

Thanks for watching 🙏🏻

[@Viajandoavela]

Great video!! I really like that you show all the maneuver from the anchorage.

[@MarkSeymour-g7o]

Awesome vid, so calming and beautiful thanks for sharing.

[@ClivesfishingandAdventures2023]

Another Awesome Video you guys , I have followed you from the beginning , and now Rhonda is with you its great to hear her Input , keep them coming ,

[@Mojave90]

I've watched your show for a few years now. As an old piscian, I feel you. This video is the best I've seen yet.. The camera work you guys have done, It brings back memories of the sea . I'm a pisces and you guys are in my realm. These camera shots of those areas , were really awesome. You two, absolutely captured the essence of that place. Safe sails and enjoy the dream...... Mojave90 🦀

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Stoked you enjoyed it, such an incredible place, we loved it 😊

[@joannebedford2695]

Amazing footage

[@claverton]

Another great vid, I especially enjoyed the footage taken at the beginning leaving the anchorage.

[@SailorJames]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@dennishively5994]

Wow that was cool to watch, the boat was moving pretty fast, you two were on your game , thank you for sharing, stay safe

[@LuddyVonBeat]

Awesome scenery at sea and I loved when the string music entered at about 8:40

[@Groovynailchic]

This was awesome to watch, so beautiful... safe travels ⛵️💫

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Thanks hun! Stoked you have you onboard!!!

[@budawang77]

Enjoyable episode. Middle Percy is a highlight of any east coast cruise or circumnavigation. There’s a great hike up to homestead. In 2019 the owners warmly welcomed us. By the way crocs rarely get out that far from the mainland.

[@ColleenWarner-ps5eb]

I so thoroughly enjoyed your adventure to Percy! Thanks again James and Rhonda for sharing this amazing footage with us!

[@LoveGrubGalley]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@SailorJames]

Easily one of my favorite episodes ever!!!

[@Mallorica-Reisen]

Another cool adventure ! I love the moment when James read from the Hiscock book !

[@SailorJames]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@picnflwrsandchasingbutterflys]

Now that was a tide...thanks again ..cool place

[@bruceday450]

your ep got better! fantastic guys

[@ronniemerlyn4051]

My favorite Pirates on the seas - they are an unbreakable force!

[@mikeh-p7q]

I saw a sign in the bar at 1971. Made me think of my dad. A Salty Sailor.

[@robertbeckett7829]

Hi guys, love your work, I used to have a 45ft wooden boat and have spent many months at Percy Island tied up in the hole at the entrance to the lagoon, very snug spot but doable. 😅 lots of interesting history there.

[@SailorJames]

Seems like a very well protected hole

[@ryan0peck]

Well done guys. see you on the seas

[@paulcollins4932]

It’s vids like this that have inspired me to buy and restore a rival 32 now with 165nm under my belt single handed I truly appreciate your skill and prowess showing me that nothing is impossible, love to you and Rhonda

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Thanks Paul 😊 how exciting for you!!!

[@claverton]

A good choice, I'm a big fan of rival 32's ... a wonderful sea boat

[@SailorJames]

Hell yeah 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@jogrant3851]

That was so good, one of the best videos you've made, one of the most terrific places you've visited. The energy from you both, and the area, really was flying 😃 It was quite touching to see all the sailor's mementos, and to watch you place one from you, Rhonda and Triteia in the old shed. Loved the moody weather and sailing in the first part of the video and the melancholy music was just perfect, for a moment i thought I was watching a drama/film. Congrats on making such a wonderful video.

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Thanks for watching! Was such a neat place to visit… the sailing lately has been epic too!!!

[@matteopetese9475]

Soo cool! Than you for sharing your amazing trip ⛵️💙 Respect ✊🏻

[@beccacontis3101]

Wow, beautiful!

[@calmauric8218]

Well done on this video. Learned more about the island and its unique history 👍

[@margiegurner2694]

Great scenic photography...and great story 🎉

[@lisaharper1827]

This was excellent. Thank you!

[@SailorJames]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TinCupChalice40]

Beautiful

[@williamtownsend3279]

Super cool video brother. 👍. Your plaque belongs there big time.

[@SailorJames]

I was honored to put it up !!!

[@user-bc7gc5wr3n]

To be safe is not free but to be free is not safe a quote from a friend from Morocco!!

[@SailorJames]

Wise words indeed

[@th7297]

An Angels & Airwaves cap hanging at the Yacht club 😎✌🏻

[@vince2837]

Love the music what a great improvement and video quality great job

[@kenegan7649]

Hey James and Rhonda I've given up sailing north this winter nothing but east coast lows and engine problems have made me head back to sydney..still at least you can get things done here and the public transports good

[@sailorruss5279]

Got my boat name in the shot of Percy, great spot!

[@anonymous.notatall6419]

In the 80s the owners had a roughly 37 ft pearl lugger in that lagoon and sold, or traded for work/diesel, pig and goat hides as well as veggies and the wonderful honey. Later, in the era when the island became a part of a drug smuggling route things got interesting too. Curious, did you notice if there were any other plaques post mid 1980s in that smaller original historic shed other than yours?

[@SailorJames]

Only saw very old ones and a few from recent years in the Telephone shed

[@andyklahn1320]

Thanks for another great vid. Just watched the live and liked your comment that you make content that you would like to see. Just so happens that I like it as well and no surprise many others do. Keep them coming, they inspire and entertain.

[@SailorJames]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@robgorman8961]

James, you are going to hit the top end just in time for Irukandji season, make sure you have a stinger suit on if you go swimming and be careful when you pull in your anchor. Make sure you have a couple of large bottles of vinegar as well.

[@SailorJames]

KZbin is not in real-time 👍🏻 we are clearing out of Thursday Island today

[@stephenbonnett164]

I much enjoyed your reference to the Hiscocks. Eric Hiscock's books inspired and informed me before I started ocean cruising in 1970. He made a movie of his circumnavigation (2nd one I think) called Beyond the West Horizon which I think can be found on KZbin.

[@SailorJames]

I have watched Beyond the West Horizon many both before I left and even recently, fantastic film!

[@beccacontis3101]

Looks harrowing as always

[@rusty4827]

Great footage and gorgeous island. I think that far off the mainland is low likelihood of crocs but I'm with you, I wouldn't be swimming in amongst mangroves at that latitude.

[@andresinnett4319]

Wish u guys all the best , I hope Australia left you's with wonderful memories 🤗👍✌🙏

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Thank you 🙏🏼 have collected a few goodies that’s for sure!!

[@banjojoeanddanielle]

You guys are so cool! We might buy a boat after we are done touring in our bus. ❤

[@robertrota6347]

You guys are cute together. Been watching a long time. Like to see you grow. You got a good woman. 🙂. Congrats on your fortune.

[@rootbox]

Bravo!!!

[@nealchristensen1793]

Fun and adventure !

[@patsymartin3634]

Awesome Flying Foxes! Wow!

[@dannybabashoff3107]

It's on my bucket list

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Make it happen!! It’s epic! Don’t forget the coconuts! And the honey is out the gate!!

[@robwilcox9296]

James, you are a LEGEND.

[@SailorJames]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@rosslevitates]

Loved the arrival music. Very unusual for a sailing visual but it worked! Also hearing about the Hitchcocks was a bonus. Great episode you guys!❤🎉

[@ennnellll]

I come back to James's content whenever I need to be uplifted from a depressive period.

[@SailorJames]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@MizzAugust7]

Oh this was a real Nice Long Video! Thanks!! For the first part, Ive never SEEN so many "shades of Gray", yeesh. That place was SO interesting seeing all the things people had left. I kept thinking- Youre Famous, Please Leave something! You left honestly one of the the Best Things There! Too bad youre not real big on fishing, looked like some Mangrove Snapper were hanging out . Never heard of those Fox things- I was hoping they WERE Foxes, ok 🦇🦇. They must be used to the noise to sleep. PLEASE get a Close Up Zoom Lens the next time you buy a Camera? Hey California Boy ~ ya did a Great Mathew McConaughey imitation !! Alright, Alright ALRIGHT! ⭐

[@findingwilson1755]

I think you should keep sailing around Australia and go back to Hobarth 😊 ... enjoy in solitude of southern latitudes and cold. What would you do in a messy part of World in front of you 😊? But that's just me. Regards from Adriatic (tourist eaten land and sea 🙃😉). You have such good life, keep it rollin'. All best

[@samparker2828]

Thanks!

[@SailorJames]

🙏🏻 Thank You

[@DavidD6969]

I started watching your channel back before you left for the trip around the world..thanks for not sugar coating it and I've learned alot thanks..

[@SailorJames]

Thanks for still checking out the videos after all these years 🙏🏻

[@justinmhuerta]

Epic

[@cD-vg5go]

Seriously Impressed you got the Hydrovane, and, Up n Working.. good job agn bro. !

[@richardclarke8585]

Thanks

[@SailorJames]

Thank you 🙏🏻 🙏🏻

[@LoveGrubGalley]

🙏🏼

[@angelwalker979]

Love the Triteia plaque! 🩵⛵️ What a cool place. The reading was wonderful, thanks James! Much love to you both, be safe.🩵⛵️💙

[@SailorJames]

Thanks 🙏🏻 we were super happy with the plaque !

[@bryanbadger6841]

It's OK Rhonda, about crocs. They're "Maneaters" so you'll be fine. And according to Ben Fogle, English adventurer, a study was done with Nile River crocs, to prove that the surface is the kill zone. Once you're under the surface, you're OK. They are confused when someone is down below. And I believe everything I read. 🤔 Thanks for sharing. Take care.

[@SailorJames]

An Australian friend of mine has seen several underwater and said they never paid him any mind

[@bryanbadger6841]

@@SailorJames But you still won't get me in there. Even freshies, although not aggressive, can give you a nasty nip.

[@LoveGrubGalley]

Hahaha Crocs 🐊 no second chances… eeeek they scare the crap outta me!

[@bryanbadger6841]

@@LoveGrubGalley yeah, me too. The only ones I've seen for real, were in the Tarongo Park Zoo. They looked the size of a small bus. Atb.

[@bryanbadger6841]

@@SailorJames and in NZ English, you mean "ignored" him. However, I don't plan on testing the waters. (Pun intended.)

[@debragregory3045]

Water at the 43min mark is gorgeous!

[@SailorJames]

Really beautiful!

[@Horatio1886build]

I'm getting sea sick and I don't usually get sea sick in those swells/ anchorage

[@SailorJames]

😂😂😂

[@John_Long]

Very cool place!🤘Loved hearing about the history of the island and seeing all the plaques from former visitors over the last 60 years. It was also crazy how much difference there was in high vs low tide. Never would have thought you could travel that far back into the mangroves by boat where there was practically dry land before. Thanks James and Rhonda for sharing your adventures with us! Fair winds my friends! 🌬⛵

[@user-bc7gc5wr3n]

Free spirits leaving a calling card for fellow drifters!!

[@user-bc7gc5wr3n]

You're a good captain and quite fair under stressful times!!

[@SailorJames]

🙏🏻

[@MizzAugust7]

Ive been subscribed a while now. Im unsure why Im not getting your videos in my very short list of active posts, when they get on here.

[@TravelonlineWalk]

Nice we are sailing to Costa Calma

[@CleanZone-th5vv]

Ols Sea Dog was there only a few months ago

[@flushestword35]

Tell us more about your sail setup as you move through these weather patterns

[@SailorJames]

2nd reefed mainsail with a preventer, poked out headsail about 90%

[@HHO....]

Really Cool Folks 👈🐬🐬💫💫🔱🔱

[@bearitraeb]

On yalls passage you could heave to a go swimming. That would be a first for Rhonda

[@SailorJames]

Unlikely to have calm conditions on our next passage

[@PyrateGFXProductions]

Those 2 boats in the lagoon can be seen in the same spots on google earth. Makes me wonder how long they have been there.

[@SailorJames]

The one in the mangroves we watched drive in through the gap from the anchorage and tie up

[@michaeldusso6882]

EXCELLENT !!! …..but something about those mangroves gave me the HeeBee GeeBees, and we know how painful that can be.

[@SailorJames]

They are spooky in Croc Country for sure!

[@phantom7crossrose148]

I find it so fascinating that the majority of your life is between destinations which is .... I really can't find the words other than fucking cool as shit. Deep stuff man. Keep living the dream cool breeze 😇

[@SailorJames]

It is an interesting life indeed!!!! so different than the life I lived on land!

[@jarnosaarinen4583]

Little known fact; thats the exact beach Captain Cook dragged The Endeavour onto to fix a big crack in it's side! I'm jus shit'n yuh!

[@SailorJames]

No its not, thats in Cooktown, which we also visited

[@captainmike808]

That is the most anti yacht club yacht club ever 🤙🏼

[@SailorJames]

💯

[@cliffol4529]

👍

[@daveg4963]

"That's a knife".

[@user-dg3kz2zo5y]

You guys heading to where after the Percy islands

[@CleanZone-th5vv]

You should reach some better weather as you approach the north, mind you it will be idillic some of the islands you will swee as you are travelling to asia. all the best

[@kaine10gabriel]

⛵ ❤

[@anguillaanguila7255]

emotional

[@peterkelly250]

There is an odour that normally goes with bats.

[@user-dg3kz2zo5y]

4 days ago it was Rolly as shit for 3 days

[@th7297]

What really bothers me - do you have a Hobgoblin and if so, what’s his name? 😎

[@jeffmercier1974]

Maybe it's the charisma, maybe it's the editing, maybe both, something stepped up, cheers ✌️

[@SailorJames]

Probably just the scenery 😂 thanks 🙏🏻

[@Marka1230]

Have you just improved your image quality? They are looking gorgeous.

[@SailorJames]

I have been shooting in 4k for most of Australia

[@user-bc7gc5wr3n]

Seadog cut a music video there!!

[@rodneyparker8911]

What is your time frame.. what date was this video made..I am at Port Douglas north of Cairns.. what would your ETA be to arrive in this part of North QLD… Rodney Centurion Ii olde Broome Pearl Lugger

[@SailorJames]

We were at Middle Percy at the end of June, we are currently at Horn Island preparing to clear out of the country

[@jaysummers9396]

James the coconut slayer 😂..

[@SailorJames]

Adding that to my linkd in

[@jaysummers9396]

@@SailorJames Hahaha, you did a good job, i tried it at a fair once and nearly pulled my hands off, if I get deserted on a desert island I'm fecked 😅..

[@LoveGrubGalley]

@@jaysummers9396😂😂😂

[@pavaoakrap5026]

Hy James one general question....since you ve crossed a lot of oceans already by now....and I know you always say that if you sail certain ocean at the time when its supposed to be done, you wont face huge storms, but how does climate change affect that? Like did you ever hear some cases where things happend though they were not predictable at all in terms of big storms? Thanks!

[@SailorJames]

Climate change affects the strength of the storms but it doesn’t (yet) mean it entirely changes the seasons. Hurricane and cyclones are summer storms so in a sense they follow the suns position over the earth. So we won’t have a winter hurricane anytime soon.