WE SAILED INTO COVID EP 1

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WE SAILED INTO COVID EP1
SAILING EAST COAST AUSTRALIA FOR INDONESIA
Following our stories’ told to other sailors in the sailing community about our time in Indonesia pre covid, the relationships formed in the ‘good times’ and how people helped us overcome massive obstacles as we find our way back though a country where clearly people are afraid of foreigners and the covid virus spread, a naval ship coming to our support when two fishing boats were following us through the night and possibly looking to board and pirate us, a storm we went through that capsized a ship and islands strictly closed to all boats opening their doors to Impi for protection - some incredible experiences.
This is a SERIES of videos about leaving South Port Australia for Thursday Island where we’d clear out of Australia for a tour of Indonesia, Malaysia, South Thailand and on entering WEST SUMATRA we also enter into COIVD.
THIS VIDEO is long - very long - but we hope to share for sailors following our path some of the highlights in cruising East Coast Australia, tidal variations and associated currents along the coast, some sailing tips we’ve learned along the way and more.
For this reason the video is intended as one to be watched ’SLOWLY’ - take a bit in and come back later for more …
VIDEO CHAPTERS FOR QUICK REFERENCE:
00:00
0:00:07 What this series is all about
0:01:30 What this particular video is about
0:03:08 Mike Tidwell wrote us a song 'FLY IMPI FLY'
0:04:43 Why different equipment appears on some footage
0:06:03 FANTASTIC supplier John Lance MARINE TRADE SUPPLIES
0:10:45 Depart SouthPort
0:10:59 VMR Coast Guard AJ Ferns
0:12:55 Canaipa Passage
0:13:26 Moreton Bay
0:14:08 Wide Bay Bar TIDES AND CURRENTS
0:16:22 Garrys Anchorage Fraser Island
0:17:05 Impi gets stuck on sand bank Garrys Anchorage
0:18:04 Depart Fraser for LADY MUSGRAVE
0:18:26 SAILS - Setting up the Genoa and Genoa car
0:19:17 MAINSAIL REEF without pointing into the wind
0:20:35 LADY MUSGRAVE ARRIVE
0:21:42 Ana has a yoga pose for Lady Musgrave
0:22:46 CURRENTS - South Of BROADSOUND and Up To MacKay
0:22:33 Keppel Islands
0:27:08 THE NARROWS heading for Gladstone
0:27:41 THE NARROWS TIDE & CURRENT EXPLANATION
0:31:49 Ramsays Crossing in The Narrows
0:33:45 GLADSTONE arrival
0:34:37 Flying Foxes in Gladstone
0:36:12 Ocean Sailing
0:37:00 Shows some deck and line layout on Impi
0:37:37 BRAMPTON Islands arrival
0:38:13 Goldsmith and Farrier Islands arrival and anchor
0:38:33 Memory of the loveliest present from EUAN
0:39:13 Sailing for LINDEMAN ISLANDS
0:40:28 Approaching HAMILTON ISLAND
0:41:34 WHITSUNDAYS
0:44:33 CAPE UPSTART ANCHOR
0:45:04 MAGNETIC ISLAND
0:46:08 CAIRNS - North Queensland Trail Bike Adventures (lends a car)
0:48:10 NEW MAINSAILS COLLECTED
0:49:12 EVOLUTION SAILS Gold Coast
0:51:20 Different SAILS we use
0:58:31 Friends help us with the new mainsail (Tony and Vicky)
0:59:30 SQAURE TOP MAINSAIL HALYARD PULLEY SETUP
0:59:49 Meet the Indo Rally Group
01:01:24 STORM Anchorage why we want clean diesel
01:03:00 STORMS and reliable engines
01:03:57 DIESEL FILTRATION - a simple system
01:04:27 Depart Cairns
01:06:20 Arrive PORT DOUGLAS
01:07:31 Low Islands
01:08:26 NEARLY HIT A WHALE
01:09:10 Arrive LIZARD ISLAND
01:11:02 Arrive PORTLAND ROADS HARBOUR
01:11:57 MOUNT ADOLPHUS ISLAND
01:14:22 Arrive HORN ISLAND
01:14:50 Thursday Island
01:16:49 FLY IMPI FLY music by Mike Tidwell
DIESEL BLOG :
catamaranimpi.com/2019/08/30/...
DIESEL FILTRATION VIDEO:
• POLISH FUEL, TRANSFER ...
We also share some great people, suppliers and ordinary and we get no compensation for any of it - just awesome people other people should know about.
SONG:
FLY IMPI FLY by Mike Tidwell who wrote this song especially for us - WOW
See Mikes Social media links - please subscribe to his channel and support him - an amazing man who has a ranch and takes care of retired horses and more …
/ @mtidwell111
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Impi Social media:
Facebook Page: / catamaranimpi
Facebook Profile: / cat.impi
InstaGram: / cat_impi
Website: catamaranimpi.com

[@Dreams.catamaran]

Who needs the cruising ⛵️guide, when we have Brent🤷‍♂️😎🤦‍♂️😳🤣🤣🤣 Thank you Brent & Ana always enjoy watching your block busters🙏👌👍😎

[@erniejones5361]

Awesome I really enjoyed it look forward to hearing more🦅

[@craigg7862]

Great Video. Love the the presentation.

[@jeffreydelgado1079]

Great video! Jealous of your adventures but will follow in your tracks in a couple of years. Safe travels.

[@roberttorres809]

What a great video. The Moose part got me emotional…. Thanks for sharing your adventure….

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey Robert - so nice to hear from you again and yes for sure we still feel the emotions over Moose 😔 . Cheers and have a wonderful holiday season ✌️

[@mikeferguson2828]

Some really nice footage Guys. Good to see you putting out a video again. Lovely 😊

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you Mike - hope you having a great holiday season mate 🙌🍾

[@philgray1023]

So much for just watching 20 minutes of this. It seemed to rush past and before i knew it an hour and twenty had gone. Thank you both for this video. Truly enjoyable.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you for saying this Phil - we just really struggle for time and try to get as much in as possible while we get gaps between so it’s really nice if you - 🙏 Cheers my friend

[@dubuandmore7907]

Looks so beautiful. Thanks for your video. How often do you miss a protect helm ?

[@bendixon2898]

Goodonyah guys

[@CatamaranImpi]

Love the Aussie way of commenting there Ben awesome mate - you guys rock 🇦🇺❤️

[@gavinwehlburg8084]

Brent and Anna, very well done, especially on Moose and friends. Nice to see you back and your sharing. Wishing you a great Xmas and all the best for the New Year. Kind regards Gavin

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey thank you so much Gavin and wishing you a happy holiday too. We currently hanging in Lady Musgrave - some snorkelling and diving, a shark around the boat earlier on 😁 and its pristine weather at the moment so we count ourselves fortunate. Thank you for taking the time to comment - much appreciated Brent and Ana

[@markrolle1381]

Great vid Brent.... a longy but a goody...thanks

[@CatamaranImpi]

Glad you enjoyed it my buddy thanks😊🇦🇺✌️👌🇦🇺❤️

[@mattandtamsin]

Always love your video’s. Thought this one was your best yet as great editing and story telling, truly captivating! You both seem like such positive folk. Hope your doing good now in these trying times

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you so much and sorry for the delay in response - Lady Musgrave has very limited internet. We are very fortunate and although not with family this Christmas we are in beautiful surrounds here at Lady Musgrave

[@curbstomp3126]

Merry Christmas IMPI

[@CatamaranImpi]

Merry Christmas ✌️🎄

[@patrickcoleman3]

Its 5am right now in Sydney and your video has just popped up I have so far watched the intro but have to get going and will watch the rest during the next day or so, all I can say so far is geez your a good presenter cheers for now.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Howdy Patrick and nice to hear from you again my friend. That's an early start to the day - 5am 👌 thanks for the awesome comment - hope the rest of it doesn't disappoint ✌️ Happy Holidays Brent and Ana

[@dhamma58]

Such a pleasure to have more Impi here and now and the promise of things to come! Long form or not, it was a treat to sit with this story (and how long was this editing marathon?) straight through to the end. So poignant to see your (and our) old friend at the end...with the coming of new adventures there... A proper present for this Christmas season of 2021.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you so much and thanks for taking the time to comment. It took me a LONG time 😂 especially between sailing trips so it's difficult to say exactly how many hours but Ana was pestering me to get it out before Christmas because she mostly does InstaGram and a lot of folks were encouraging her to encourage me 😉 We are looking forward to next year - got to get the program some wheels again ❤️👌👍 Happy holidays

[@clayfarnet970]

Thanks for sharing mate! 👍👍👍

[@CatamaranImpi]

A pleasure for us and thanks for the comment mate ! 🇦🇺❤️

[@peterbeckmann3567]

Happy holidays from Anne and Peter

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you guys - Happy Holidays

[@michaelhogan9351]

We are camping at Teewah and spending time at Double Island. As a sailer I am always interested in other boats so I paddled out in the anchorage to look at the boats moored there. Saw Jadean with Cape Town port of origin and landed up having a long chat to them. They asked me if I subscribed to your channel which I do now! We left SA in 94 and live on the Gold Coast. We keep our little 8 m sailboat on a berth at Runaway Bay and actually Evolution sails have done some work for me too. Enjoyed this video and hope to see more.

[@CatamaranImpi]

That’s so cool Michael and thanks for taking time to comment here and join the team 👋 We love Barry and Kim Boswell on Cat Jadean - more genuine and humble people one wouldn’t find. Recently we spent some time with them at Lady Musgrave Island and had a terrific dive with Manta Rays and more - I hope you guys can get there if you haven’t done that 👍 Your 8m sailboat sounds fun and actually we’ve hung out in that neck of the woods for a long time over the years so perhaps will get to meet you there when next down on the Goldcoast 🍻 We are slow in getting videos out mostly because my computer skills are somewhat lacking 😂 but we do enjoy the engagement it brings with so many amazing people and will keep doing them over time so thanks for subbing here and sharing a bit of your life too👍 Cheers 🥂

[@jasonmckenzie3840]

Yet another awesome video guys. I absolutely love watching your videos and all your knowledge is just fantastic. I can’t wait to see you guys soon in Brisbane or the Gold Coast. You guys are absolutely the best and I’m so looking forward to shaking your head 👍👍🤞 . Sail safely

[@CatamaranImpi]

Awesome! Thank you Jason 😊 that was a tough one for me to get out 😂 We should be in Brisbane to do some medical checks we need before taking off again so hope to catch you there 👍🇦🇺 We hope to catch up with ya along the way - somehow we've always just missed the opportunity ... cheers my friend and happy holidays hey 🇦🇺❤️👍

[@jasonmckenzie3840]

@@CatamaranImpi hello guys I hope you are doing great 👍 you guys are fast becoming legends here in Australia 🇦🇺. I absolutely love all your videos and I really appreciate the hard work you both put in. Looking forward to meeting with you guys and shaking your hands. Stay safe and enjoy your sailing trip down the eastern coast 👌👌👍👍

[@CatamaranImpi]

@@jasonmckenzie3840 Thank you mate 👍 having a great time here in Lady Musgrave - very pretty spot 🇦🇺

[@bobahlberg6360]

Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year been watching you guys for years thank you.

[@CatamaranImpi]

Thank you Bob 🎄

[@nedwphillips2126]

What a come back lol...

[@CatamaranImpi]

😂😁🇦🇺❤️ thanks Ned ✌️👌

[@moz1953]

Brent/Ana - i'm really going to relish this lengthy vlog which i'll watch in stages but just wanted to wish you a very happy Xmas & safe and healthy 2022, very best wishes, Moz

[@CatamaranImpi]

Ahh we always enjoy getting a comment from you 👌👍😊 thank you Moz 👍 We hope you enjoy every day of the holidays and celebrations and equally wish for you and everyone in this crazy world a terrific 2022 ... ❤️🇦🇺

[@shanevillis4079]

Merry Xmas and a HNY to you Brent and Ana, hope you and yours have a wonderful period and a safe happy and healthy 2022.... Shane and Donna

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey Shane and Donna - thank you so much guys and thanks for all the support you've always shown us - much appreciated 👌👍 We hope you have a wonderful holiday season and a blast into 2022 - may it be a year that brings happiness back to our shores 🇦🇺❤️

[@shanevillis4079]

@@CatamaranImpi Thank you mate.

[@paulkopp3634]

Thank you . Quality counts , look forward to the breadth and scope of your videos as well as your insight on living the life you choose and the people and events that influence it .

[@CatamaranImpi]

Much appreciated Paul - Seasons greetings to you and your loved ones Cheers - Brent and Ana

[@patch8462]

Pleased to hear from you both again! I am looking forward to watching this "block buster" diary: Happy Holidays from Canada

[@CatamaranImpi]

Happy holidays! Hope you enjoy it ✌️ We have family in Canada - they love it 👌👍

[@mrmped1]

Long time no hear, glad to see your doing OK. With all of the boat repairs, and upgrades I was curious as to whether the Lagoon 440s have the same bulkhead issues that the 4500 and some other boats are having. Have you seen David Shis channel where he found that some of the bulkheads weren't even attached under the decks. What is your take on the situation? Safe travels

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hey thanks so much. Regarding bulkheads - the 450 had a particularly bad run but last week I was very interested to visit a friend on his 450 when we pulled into the marina at Gladstone. He'd removed the panel to show me the access to his bulkhead which was still in pristine condition and not built in three sections like many others that have failed. Instead his was one section and glassed all the way up which I found interesting. So I'm not an expert in 450's but it did make me wonder if some were built differently to others 💁 As you may know our Lagoon 440 is not our first catamaran (Ana came into my life owning a Catana 471C) and after purchasing our 440 knowing we were going to do heavy cruising one of the first projects we did was to strengthen the outer sections of the bulkhead for long term stability. It turns out it may have been one of our best decisions because we've been is some incredibly nasty seas. What happens on various brands of catamarans depending on how heavily they are sailed, is that the under side of the vessel above the water and between the hulls (bridge deck) is subject to slamming as waves get trapped there and the result is that the floor flexes ahead of and behind hard points, so even ion a Bulkhead is well built in there, the flexing action to either side causes delimitation. For this reason on Impi, we've built ribs internally to make sure the flex is not going to impact on structure. Perhaps I'm a stickler for things on boats so I've maybe gone a bit overboard on mods but then again this is because I intended our boat to sail off the beaten track. The Lagoon 440 the way we've kitted her out has proved to be one tough little boat, but at the end of the day the sea is master and we can never say it won't claim us some day - hence total respect for the sea and I am continuously going through everything and we do stop the boat from time to time to effect maintenance projects to Impi. This has been key to us having relatively 'issue free' sailing across the oceans and hassle free anchorages off the islands. I do think it's good that sailing folks highlight issues and suppliers need to attend to these - well, ultimately the owner should be prepared to make his boat totally safe for the conditions he wishes to embark on. What boat would we buy next - hmmm - well, Lagoon would certainly still be on our list to check out - we love how they kit out their boats but of course as with any brand of boat we are the people to 'look under the hood'. Ana and I were on a mates new cat recently - NOT Lagoon - frightening to see how parts of that boat were coming apart and the fight they had to go through with the manufacturer so I think buyers need to be on their 'A Game' when making a purchase - go through that new boat to detail before signing off on it. I don't think Lagoon can afford to screw up on another model after the 450 fiasco so lets hope the future models like the Lagoon 51 are going to have the strongest bulkheads out there 👍 Cheers

[@iamsomebody7700]

Hi, we own a 2005 L440 and was told you reinforced your bulkheads prior to starting your circumnavigation. Do you have any video or blog postings regarding what you did? Thanks and Fair winds to you!

[@CatamaranImpi]

Hi 👋 Sorry for the delay response - we’ve just sailed back to proper internet after a great time in Lady Musgrave where it’s limited . Yes, the Lagoon 440 is built like a tank and doesn’t have the issues the 450 does however Lagoon did glass the main bulkhead from mid hull to mid hull but did not follow through on the outer sides which is ‘bonded’ so when we purchased the boat new we opted to glass the outer sides in too. On earlier models such as yours I’d suggest looking at the upper section above the water tank (under the mast ) too. You can see our blog at : catamaranimpi.com/2020/07/28/how-to-upgrade-the-bulkhead-on-a-lagoon-440/amp/ I hope this helps - Lagoon 440 is an amazing craft but we have done mods to the boat to make a truly tough world cruiser Cheers 🍻 Brent and Ana