Welcome to Sailing Navasana!
We are Chet & Jessy sailing around the world on a Nautitech 46 Open performance catamaran sharing the highlights and lowlights as well as some tips and tricks that hopefully someone might find helpful. Hoping not to be an insomnia cure 🙂
Fantastic to catch up with OG Navasana crew Dan and Iggy in Amsterdam. Cheated death many times with these guys. Plenty of good times and libations were had!
Feb 16
Fantastic to catch up with OG Navasana crew Dan and Iggy in Amsterdam. Cheated death many times with these guys. Plenty of good times and libations were had!
We spent the final couple of days of our Oz road trip in Freemantle, which we really loved! Discovered initially by the Dutch it became a penal colony, which is now a world heritage site. Lots of Victorian era buildings give it a lot of charm. We also visited Rottnest island which was named by a Dutch explorer after all the Quokkas on the island which they thought were rats 🙂 We saw many on the island even one with the joey in their pouch! Jessy was trying to get them to follow our instagram page 😉
Rottnest also had some intact World War 2 era guns that were originally used in World War 1 to defend Gibraltar. Crazy that they shipped them all way around the world and built a hill to install them!
Feb 15
We spent the final couple of days of our Oz road trip in Freemantle, which we really loved! Discovered initially by the Dutch it became a penal colony, which is now a world heritage site. Lots of Victorian era buildings give it a lot of charm. We also visited Rottnest island which was named by a Dutch explorer after all the Quokkas on the island which they thought were rats 🙂 We saw many on the island even one with the joey in their pouch! Jessy was trying to get them to follow our instagram page 😉
Rottnest also had some intact World War 2 era guns that were originally used in World War 1 to defend Gibraltar. Crazy that they shipped them all way around the world and built a hill to install them!
On our back to Perth we passed by a couple of beautiful rock formations. We first went surfing at Wave Rock, which looks like a huge breaking wave that formed over the last 60 million years!
We also passed by The Pinnacles, thousands of tall limestone spires that rise eerily out of the yellow desert sands. Nature is amazing sculptor!
Feb 12
On our back to Perth we passed by a couple of beautiful rock formations. We first went surfing at Wave Rock, which looks like a huge breaking wave that formed over the last 60 million years!
We also passed by The Pinnacles, thousands of tall limestone spires that rise eerily out of the yellow desert sands. Nature is amazing sculptor!
We wanted to see the majestic sand dunes near Lancelin and figured the best way was with a UTV Buggy! Lots of fun driving in the sand and great views of the ocean. Ready for the Paris-Dakar now 🙂
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#lancelin #lancelinsanddunes #utvracing
Feb 9
We wanted to see the majestic sand dunes near Lancelin and figured the best way was with a UTV Buggy! Lots of fun driving in the sand and great views of the ocean. Ready for the Paris-Dakar now 🙂
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#lancelin #lancelinsanddunes #utvracing
Friends had told us that the area around Esperance has Australia’s best beaches and it didn’t disappoint. The sand was so white and fine we were almost tempted to bake a cake with it 🙂 Beautiful rock formations as well. Oh and someone had a bright idea to rebuild Stonehenge in the bush, not sure Pagans and Druids are the types of tourists you want visiting 😉
Feb 8
Friends had told us that the area around Esperance has Australia’s best beaches and it didn’t disappoint. The sand was so white and fine we were almost tempted to bake a cake with it 🙂 Beautiful rock formations as well. Oh and someone had a bright idea to rebuild Stonehenge in the bush, not sure Pagans and Druids are the types of tourists you want visiting 😉
We are continually amazed by the power of the ocean, and The Gap was a spectacular example. Huge southern ocean waves carving a channel in the granite wall of 25 metres. Thank god Navasana’s fiberglass hull is able to stand up to these waves, otherwise we be bye bye 😉
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#thegap
Feb 5
We are continually amazed by the power of the ocean, and The Gap was a spectacular example. Huge southern ocean waves carving a channel in the granite wall of 25 metres. Thank god Navasana’s fiberglass hull is able to stand up to these waves, otherwise we be bye bye 😉
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#thegap
It was cool to visit Cape Leeuwin which is one of sailing’s three great capes of the world. This is apparently where the Indian Ocean meets the southern ocean, but we couldn’t see any difference 🙂 The two other great capes are Cape of Good Hope which we saw by land and Cape Horn which was close when I visited Ushuaia. Hoping to see it up close sometime in the future, in good weather!
Feb 2
It was cool to visit Cape Leeuwin which is one of sailing’s three great capes of the world. This is apparently where the Indian Ocean meets the southern ocean, but we couldn’t see any difference 🙂 The two other great capes are Cape of Good Hope which we saw by land and Cape Horn which was close when I visited Ushuaia. Hoping to see it up close sometime in the future, in good weather!
In 2022, I had a chronic case of OTSD (Orca Trauma Stress Disorder) when we sailed in May to Gibraltar from Portugal and then again in Sept when we sailed from Gibraltar to the Canary Islands. Hundreds of boats had been attacked by Orcas (Killer Whales) destroying rudders and a couple also sank. Seeing an Orca while sailing then would have probably given me a heart attack! Luckily we didn’t but I still had latent OTSD and Jessy being a psychologist prescribed exposure therapy, so we went Orca watching!
We went 24 nautical miles out into the southern ocean where an underwater canyon provides a lot of food for killer whales. We saw many pods, and followed one with a giant male with a huge fin. They are amazing creatures, apex predators that eat Great White Sharks! Thankfully they didn’t touch the rudders of the research boat and my OTSD is cured for now 😉
Jan 30
In 2022, I had a chronic case of OTSD (Orca Trauma Stress Disorder) when we sailed in May to Gibraltar from Portugal and then again in Sept when we sailed from Gibraltar to the Canary Islands. Hundreds of boats had been attacked by Orcas (Killer Whales) destroying rudders and a couple also sank. Seeing an Orca while sailing then would have probably given me a heart attack! Luckily we didn’t but I still had latent OTSD and Jessy being a psychologist prescribed exposure therapy, so we went Orca watching!
We went 24 nautical miles out into the southern ocean where an underwater canyon provides a lot of food for killer whales. We saw many pods, and followed one with a giant male with a huge fin. They are amazing creatures, apex predators that eat Great White Sharks! Thankfully they didn’t touch the rudders of the research boat and my OTSD is cured for now 😉
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