Welcome to Sailing A B Sea (Ep.001) where we, Aannsha and Barry, find out that living the dream begins with hard work! In this episode Aannsha and Barry pinp...

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Ah there you are! Can you remember the exact moment an idea was born?

I can and it didn't start with a beer, it started on our friend Steve's boat,

but that's not his boat, this is his boat and he took us out for a day trip

on Sunday July 31st 2016, That was

when the idea was born! Initially the

idea was to buy a boat that was big

enough to cruise out to Queensland's

offshore reefs for scuba diving on long

weekends and stuff like that, however

once we started looking at boats the

plan began to morph and it got bigger

and bolder! We looked at all sorts of

boats, from little two cabin coastal

cruisers, to small sailing catamarans and

big catamarans. The more we looked the

more we learned and we very quickly learned that we couldn't afford to

purchase or even maintain a catamaran. That revelation was quite helpful because

it narrowed our search to only monohulls.

Just a short time into our monohull research, some economic

realities became obvious, you could buy exactly the same model and exactly the

same year boat for 50,000 Australian dollars cheaper if you bought it in Europe.

AU$50,000 certainly goes a long way.

That financial realization changed everything, suddenly the starting point of

our journey was on the opposite side of the planet and to get ourselves and our

possessions there we were limited by

airline baggage allowances. It's no

exaggeration that we spent hundreds and

hundreds of hours researching boats in

all parts of Europe and we did learn a

lot, but at the end of the day, window

shopping is no substitute for actually

getting in there and trying something on

for size. We had to get to Europe but before we could do that we had a house to sell.

Our son Luke had just moved out of our family

home and we were now technically empty

nesters so we spent the next three and a

half months renovating our house. Good

friends helped out along the way, it was

a massive job but the end result proved

that it was well worth doing.

Burning trees. What's going on here? Oh for God sake be careful.

Number one son and number one sons helper.

Thank you!

Oh he's another person look!

Oh my god you did know that the

First World War finished?

How long have you been wandering around that jungle?

Please be careful... That's mother

voice. What you doing love?Today I'm a painter.

So what are you doing? Laser

light. I'm a laser light technician now.

We're moving mulch! OK. So what are you doing Baz? Today I'm a painter. Oh lovely.

Morning, what you doing today? Today I'm removing the hardware from all the doors. So what are you doing fellas? Today we

are plumbers! OK. What you doing now Baz? I'm a painter today and I'm doing all the gloss work. A job that I've been really looking forward too.

What ya doing fellas? Today we're gardeners. Oh what ya doing Baz? Today I'm a concretor. Wow you're a man of many talents!

What are you doing today Aannsha? I'm painting again. Oh enjoying it?

kind of, I'll be glad when it's finished.

Oh yeah that's it, that is it, it's me the

film person. They're so busy out there

cutting weeds down and mulching that

they haven't got time to film me so I'm

doing it all myself. And this is the end

result of three and a half months hard

work.

Welcome to 26 Carnarvon drive in Beerwah. This elegant cottage style

property located at the base of Coochin Twins is now ready for you to view.

Very rarely do properties come along in this price range with this size of land

situated on over 2,000 square meters.

Join us in our next video as we say

goodbye to the house. Bye beautiful house and

beautiful mountain in the background. And travel eighteen thousand six hundred

kilometers to Spain ready for the next

part of our journey.

Oh and if you like out takes keep

watching to the end.