Wayag is maybe that place you've seen pictures of but never known where it is. Marie and I have been spending a lot of time during the covid thing in Wayag, nearly alone in this piece of paradise. We are trying to explore every corner of it and show you at home this special place. This week we explore the north east corner, the beaches and reefs there plus I get some pretty epic drone footage.
In the second half I answer a viewers question by showing how I go about loading my dinghy.
Enjoy!

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Good morning. Today We are going on another adventure

Just trying to make the most out of our time in Wayag and discover some new places.

So I've been looking on the maps again, and there's another big sort of inlet/outlet that goes to the ocean up in the

North eastern corner of Wayag and I haven't gotten discovered that yet

So it's high tide now pretty much maybe just past but we're gonna go up there

It's quite a dinghy ride, but we'll go and check it all out and film some of it and show you what it's like.

All right, we got everything? Camera gear,

Some water

And fuel can is full

So we've come ashore this beautiful little beach in the north end of Wayag and a

straight away Marie goes into

shell collecting mode.

(Beautiful one)

Pretty cool though beachcombing just looking around

all the cool little bits of coral and stuff you can find and

She's probably gonna start making some jewelry with it at some stage when she's found enough

So this is a little

Fishermen beach again all the nice beaches around here. They've got camps made up of them

You can see I think it's first sort of

roving families at fisherman's I think that's all they do is just

Spend a month here and then go to the next beach and they dry their fish and every now and again

They'll take it down and sell it somewhere and that's their life. I don't think they live anywhere else

So it's pretty cool and pretty nice place they get to live

Good morning, everyone

We're packing up to leave now. So as part of the packing up. I thought I would answer a question of one of my viewers

John

McEntee Mack in T. Hope I got that right

Asked a little while ago and I promised I would answer and I haven't until now but here we go

How do I load my dinghy as I don't have davits and he didn't see a lifting system?

So I'm gonna get Marie to film while I put my dinghy on the front of the boat. Here you go. Enjoy

this is a little how to

So I use my topping lift which is the yellow one and then I put this

Two-to-one or maybe four to one

Pulley system to make it easier to lift

I've got one little rope tied to the front of the dinghy and

then

Two on the back to make a triangle

And I can do all this really easy by myself, that's the whole point to make systems that work for when you're solo sailing.

This has a little locker on the top so once it's pulled it won't come loose again.

Before I start pulling up I pull the bung out so it starts draining out the water.

We had some rain last night.

I'll just pause here and let it all drain out completely.

Take the fuel can out

So my fuel canister goes down the back here, I'll show you where I put that.

So I have watertight bulkhead across the back of the boat

So all the fuel and spare canisters and stuff go in here and no fumes get into the boat

So it's pretty handy place. I'd have to tie things on deck

So this just comes over the rail, it's just long enough and then I sit it down here I

Don't need the pulley anymore because the heavy lifting is done

And when I'm sailing sort of short distances. I won't even take this off. I just hook it down onto the

the rail here, pull it tight and then it just stays there ready for next time

Next take the engine off.

I have this waterproof

rusty lock that I bought three years ago and it's still going. So the lock just goes through these tightening handles

That's a bit stiff. But this way the handles

Well first no one can steal the engine but also the handles can't come loose by themselves and the engine flies overboard

So it's a real, it's obviously made for that

It's probably no bigger surprise that you do that, but maybe some people don't know about it

The dinghy is nice and light now this thing only weighs slightly over 20 kilos 26 kilos

So I had this custom made that it would fit

In this spot and that I could still open the hatch because opening the hatch at night is the air conditioning

If I had a bigger dinghy, it would have just come over the hatch and I couldn't open it

So it was a pretty big consideration for me

Then I flip it over

Push it up to the mast

And that's where it sits. Now the next part is tying it down, obviously that's a really important part

Because you don't want to if a squall comes or you're getting into some rough water

you don't want to be trying to rescue a dinghy that's half flying over the side or probably destroyed your

Your safety rails or whatever. So you want to tie it down good and be prepared for anything

So I used to use

Something like motocross tie-downs ratchets to tie the dinghy down and they worked good. You can really get a lot of pressure

but the problem was that after a couple of months they would start rusting and

be hard to ratchet but leave stains all over the deck. Look here

this is one still an old rust mark from the last ratchets can't get rid of it

so I got rid of them when they stopped working and

now I just used rope and I use this thin woven rope. It's strong and I use something called the trucker hitch

Should I show you how to do this knot? Yeah, come on come in closer and have a look

So the trucker hitch is good. It's just a pull-through knot first you put the the loose end

over, make a cross

take this

part, pull it up into a loop

Make another loop on the top end

Twist it twice

put the first loop through and

Then pull the loose end

And see now we ended up with two loops and you

can really put a lot of purchase on it's the same like a ratchet really you can put a lot of purchase on it and

Then just knot it right there

So you might have to

watch through that knot-tying process a couple of times to get the trucker hitch, but it's really really handy knot.

One that my

Brother Jerry showed me because he used to drive trucks. Yeah real good knot.

Now the dinghy is pretty secure, but I have three points to tie it down.

The other two points go through the front part of the dinghy here

So that's creating a triangle here

And that's holding the whole front down

I've already got the trucker hitch there from last time the cool thing about the Trucker hitch

Is you can just pull it and it comes undone, there's no actual knot

So it's really handy one. So loop

loop twisted twice pull that through

Pull the loose end and there you go

Put a bit of pressure.

Bang!

Same with this side.

That's it super secure now that won't move

if I'm crossing a

ocean

I'll probably let a bit of air out of this just to give it more of a foot

footprint

Just to get it a bit lower and just to spread it out a bit

I'll let half the air out but I'll use the same system to tie that down

Then what I do with the hatch

Is just open it

and I've just got this little piece of cord here attached to the front of the dinghy and

Just hook that over there and then that hatch stays up at night

Everyone has a different boat anyone figures out different ways of doing things

but I like to just find these little

These days you call them life hacks, I guess but just little little shortcuts and ways to make your life easier

I never take this one off. It just goes in the water. But just it's just there every time

The ropes I just leave here. Everything's sort of sorted out and bang. It's all tied on and five minutes later you're on your way.

So yeah, figure out your own little life hacks

But I hope you can use this and maybe make it work on your boat or just get some inspiration from that

Thanks John for the question. I hope this answered your

Question. See ya

Well, I hope you all enjoyed this latest episode of learning by doing

Great times here in Wayag, I even get to go to the hairdresser salon. There's a special beach here

It's a pretty expensive but then what do you expect, in a remote part of the world

Thank you very much hairdresser Marie. I might show you afterwards how it works out, but we'll see about that

Thanks again to all my patrons. You're all the best lot out there

You really motivate me and give me good feedback and the support all

All the money that's building up and the patron account. I haven't taken any of it out

that will be going towards buying my new mainsail at the end of this season, and it's looking like

yeah, pretty pretty much there already so I'm pretty stoked on that

Next week

We'll still be in Wayag we're planning on being here a little while. Well, probably just one more week actually

We'll get a few other little islands to visit after but we've got a couple of good adventures for next week. And

Yeah, stay tuned for that

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