Garrett’s Adventurevídeo
Living on a Sailboat in Sydney
11 de abril de 2026 · 14 min · 54K visualizações · Sydney
Sailboat moored under Sydney Harbour Bridge at golden hour
O que este vídeo aborda
Garrett spends roughly two weeks anchored and on mooring balls in Sydney Harbour aboard his unnamed current boat — a replacement for his previous vessel, Hooligan — after sailing it from Fiji to Australia via New Caledonia. He repairs failed solar cabling, replacing the deck-penetration connectors and routing new black wire carefully to avoid polarity errors, then drip-loops the cable above the charge controller.10:50 A chartplotter failure prompts him to install an Orca tablet chartplotter, a Norwegian-made device that connects to NMEA instruments and displays AIS, charts, and radar.11:42 He also buys a used Hydrovane wind vane with a built-in backup rudder for $1,500 USD — roughly one-fifth of new price — specifically because his electronic autopilot is unreliable on long passages.12:48 Mooring locations mentioned include Rose Bay, Balmain, and Manly Beach.3:43 He flies to Indonesia on a $300 round-trip to reset his 90-day Australian tourist visa, visiting a surf town south of Jakarta called Simaja, Mount Halimu National Park, and Bali.8:09 The plan after Sydney is to sail north to the Gold Coast for a full refit including a watermaker, autopilot, and electronics before heading to Indonesia.9:51 A Hydrovane purchased secondhand provides both self-steering redundancy and a backup rudder when electronic autopilots fail offshore.13:20
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