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Welcome aboard SV Nakama, We are Slim & Soph a young Aussie couple tryna get by living aboard our tiny retro sailboat with our cat Chilli. We sail the Australian coastline whilst attending university online and take you with us. After putting study on the back burner for years as we didn’t want to sacrifice adventure, we thought why not have both? Fed up with the outrageous rental prices in our hometown, the idea of doing it afloat came to mind. We figured we could scrape by on our tight student budget if we stopped paying way too much rent and lived minimally on the ocean, whilst continuing our passion for adventure. The plan for now, is to keep sailing onwards, keeping Australia to our left and once we're done doing that...Who knows. Our mission is to prove that anyone can do it, you don’t need the fanciest boat or a squillion bucks, just a whole lot of ambition and a willingness to make mistakes and learn. So join us on this whacky adventure! Slim & Soph xoxo

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It was March 2021, when we set off from the small coastal town of Coffs Harbour to see if we could complete a circumnavigation of Australia whilst completing our university degrees online. One major contributing factor to our decision to see our country instead of pushing offshore was to experience a...
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It was a week before the start date of the race event when news of the unfolding civil war in New Caledonia aired. A state of emergency was issued, which left the race committee no choice but to cancel. While the tensions built on the tropical island, it felt almost wrong that from just across the way...
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We’re currently living on the Indian Ocean aboard our sailboat, and when your boat is your home our backyard is always changing. And this week it's the Montebello Islands. But like anywhere we pass through, our time here is limited as the seasons keep us on our toes. We need to continue our journey...
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Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code SLIMANDSOPH for an extra 3 months free at https://surfshark.deals/SLIMANDSOPH 40 nautical miles off the coast of Western Australia, in the Indian Ocean lies the Montebello Islands. A coral-fringed archipelago of 174 islands, that most Aussies don’t...
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We've just spent over a year living on our sailboat in croc-infested waters, and there's no better feeling than finally finding ourselves in the crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean. We are sailing to the Montebello Islands to spear ourselves some fish for food, it's been a while since we've had...
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We will be the first-ever mother & daughter sailing team to compete in the Melbourne to Osaka Double-Handed Yacht race! With this massive offshore sailing event, that will see us sailing 5,500 nautical miles non-stop from the southern to the northern hemisphere, we will need to train and prepare ourselves....
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With 1400 nautical miles until the Southern Ocean and with a change of season looming, we need to get a wriggle on tackling this ginormous coastline. This week we are making the journey from Broome to Dampier, a 350-nautical-mile voyage that will take approximately 4 days but not before we run some much-needed...
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We’ve been warned of this coast. Told that we’re crazy, and even too ambitious, and maybe they're right, but we’re going to give it a red hot crack. Welcome to season 4, where we will be taking on the wild West Coast of Australia. This is where the huge waves of the Indian Ocean are unimpeded for...
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We’ve just survived 3 months of living in the wild, deep in the harsh Australian wilderness. The Kimberley is a remote corner of Australia’s far North West and we’ve just wrapped up time relying on what we could catch and forage from the land and sea to survive out here removed from the regular...
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