Hi from Izzy, Captain Wayne and Sparrow the ships cat, together we are the Mangrove Charlie crew. Izzy has joined the crew to learn how to sail and live the boat life. . . her dream is to buy her own yacht and sail home from Australia to Madagascar as captain.
Together you and I will help Izzy fulfill her dream. . .Leave comments on our videos to give Izzy encouragement. . . maybe helpful hints or any missed information. . . Thank you
Mangrove Charlie is my 14m sailing catamaran which I designed at age 19 and completed building 9 years later. Mangrove Charlie has been cruising with an ever changing, fun, young international crew since 1992.
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Location
Mangrove Charlie is based in Brisbane Australia and our cruising ground is Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef and the Islands of the south west pacific. We have no fixed address and no fixed itinerary we go where the wind blows us and stop to explore places that look interesting. For income we work as boat builders when opportunities arise. Through photographs and vlogs we record our daily life, experiences, feeling and emotions.
A seafarers life
Years ago, at age 19, I had a dream to design, build and travel aboard my own sailing catamaran. 9 years later my dream yacht was finished and we set sail.
I've been living the dream since 1992, experiencing the most amazing adventures imaginable. To achieve my dream I completed my apprenticeship as a shipwright / boat builder, qualified as a yacht designer and hold a commercial yacht captains ticket.
I live on the sea and love it.
As seafarers we are always bound for our destination, we depart with every intention of arriving at our chosen destination but sometimes we encounter conditions that are too arduous to endure or we change our mind, and an alternate destination is sought.
Upon arrival we celebrated, happy to be safe in a new port. We explore our immediate surrounds, re provision and repair. We explore the surrounding coastal and hinterland area . We usually meet the locals, often making lifelong friends. When we want, we depart bound for our next destination.
#1 Life Aboard Begins / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
#1 Life Aboard Begins / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
Izzy leaves the life of a landlubber and moves aboard Mangrove Charlie, she quickly learns that living aboard is nothing like living ashore. . . . .
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#2 Driving Captain Crazy / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
Izzy, new to boatlife blocks the toilet and fills the fuel tank with water and . . .
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00:34 About mangrove Charlie
00:54 How to cook brea…
#3 Tampon Surgery / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
#3 Tampon Surgery / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
With surgical precision Izzy dismantles the toilet and removes her tampon . . and experiences more boat life and boat work at the boatworks.
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#4 Good Bye Wilson / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
#4 Good Bye Wilson / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
The BUG has buggered Izzy's and Captain's businesses. . . no more materials in the shops to finish Mangrove Charlie. . . . . not ready, we decide to leave The Boat Work…
#5 Bending Sails / Sailing Mangrove Charlie boatwork boatlife & sailing adventures
Izzy boards skiffy. . . Mangrove Charlie's sailing boom. . . learns the lines as she bends the sails. . .feels the power of and learns how to sail. . .we install Ma…
#6 Our First Day Sailing / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
#6 Our First Day Sail / Sailing Mangrove Charlie boatlife & sailing adventures
Izzy dances with full excitement to the beat of woofers as we motor to hoist sail. Izzy learns the ropes as she prepares to hoist sail. . .with all her strength she pul…
#7 Seafood from the sea / Sailing Mangrove Charlie \ boatlife & sailing adventures
#7 Seafood from the sea / Sailing Mangrove Charlie boatlife & sailing adventures
Izzy awakes excited and happy to say "good morning world". . . we explore the miles of deserted beach and sand dunes and discover huge aboriginal middens. . .Izzy lea…
#8 Thank you Loong Sails / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
#8 Thank you Loong Sails / Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
The day the new Loong Sail mainsail goes up. . .unpacking. . .sail battens in. . .main halyard on. . .mainsail part up. . .wind is up. . .lunch break. . .we cook the best …
#9 Sheet Winch Fail / Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
Izzy receives a gift from humpback whales. . .we move anchorage for final preparation to sail downwind. . .hoist the jib and jibe jibe jibe and jibe. . .anyone would think we a…
#10 Party like a pirate / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
#10 Party like a pirate / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
After Izzy's long shower. . . we ran out of water. . .far from a marina we have only one option. . . to pirate some water. . . the waterfront park taps have no tap …
#11 Time and tide waits for no one / Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
#11 Time and tide waits for no one / Mangrove Charlie / boatlife & sailing adventures
The morning after we partied like pirates. . .optimistically we hoist sail. . . the day is perfectly windless. . .plans change so we explore a sandband. . .and d…
#12 We sail where the wind blows us / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife and sailing adventures
#12 We sail where the wind blows us / Sailing Mangrove Charlie / boatlife and sailing adventures
Izzy washes her hair. . . another long shower. . . no water again. . .we take Skiffy in search of a mountain stream. . .we have luck. . .we sail away…
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