00:00It was in these waters that Ken Gourlay started and finished his epic solo circuit of navigation
00:04of the world. Almost exactly 19 years later in 2025 his son Tristan is about to make the very
00:10same voyage and he hopes to go just a little quicker. Sort of something I've been wanting
00:14to do as a young kid ever since I learned to sail dinghies and having dad go was a good
00:20good inspiration and also a good feeling out for what's involved fully. Tristan will have
00:26a little head start on his father beginning his trip from Hobart as opposed to Launceston.
00:30It just makes the make the trip a little bit more efficient just starting in those roaring 40s and
00:36I can then get get going along and then I shoot under New Zealand down under Cape Horn.
00:41I'll then cruise up the or come up the east coast of South America up in the Atlantic and then I cross
00:48the equator in the Atlantic which is one of the specifications rounding St Peter and St Paul
00:53rocks and then I'll come back down through the Atlantic and around the bottom of Africa and
00:59then headed for home basically. When he says it like that it sounds all very simple but when he
01:04has spent the last three months preparing his vessel, the Blue Moon 2, he probably has every right to be
01:09confident. Last winter was when I did a major overhaul including re-rigging the whole boat,
01:16re-powering with a new motor and getting all the systems up and ready for the Melbourne,
01:20Osaka which was our sort of good test run. Tristan and Ken completed the Melbourne to Osaka together
01:26and despite the healthy rivalry, Ken has been helping get the yacht ready including stocking
01:31it with six months worth of food. The last couple of months here you literally are relying on long
01:36life sort of products so obviously as much fresh stuff as I can get through in the first month or
01:43so then it sort of starts getting down to your tinned veggies, rice, there's a lot of cereal and long
01:52life sort of you know as many products as I can but I do enjoy my fishing so I'll certainly be fishing
01:58as much as I can to supplement the diet especially later on in the trip. And what has to go right to
02:03beat the time of 179 days, 22 hours, 58 minutes and 28.5 seconds. Yeah the boat I've got to keep the
02:11boat in one piece, you know weather also can play a big thing so it's yeah it's just it is an endurance
02:19event, it's no sprint so it certainly will be something I'll be pacing myself out and
02:25trying to keep the boat together so I can keep it a reasonably quick speed.
02:33you
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