Our Delphia 40 has just completed its 3500nm delivery from Airlie Beach to Perth

AWOLNATION certainly has a lot to be thankful for from the GoPro. Nice vid none the less. Thanks for sharing.

Did you do the trip yourself or with a delivery crew? Can I ask how long did you take to do it? I will be looking for a new tub in a year or two and I don't want to restrict myself to the WA market..

Many thanks for sharing its great for marina sailors like myself

Not at all. The boat came with more gear than we were expecting.

The spares are usual stuff like fuel filters, hoses, belts, impellers. Dunny items - service kit, joker valve, impeller. Some Nav light spares. Tools for most jobs, drill, electrical crimping, solder, lots of duct tape, lots of spare screws, bolts, shackles, blocks, rope, sail repair etc. Enough to keep you going.

On my leg in Shark Bay, the alternator worked loose and slid across to gouge out a coolant hose. We we able to rob a similar size pipe from the breather box and fashion a replacement. If we couldn't have done that, we might have been stuck for a week getting parts sent up.

we didn't have a lot of time to prep the boat before leaving Airlie, so a lot was discovered along the way, but fortunately we pretty much had most things covered and didn't have any delays for repairs.

what I learnt is that in planning for a trip like that, you need to look at just about everything on the boat and think, do I need a spare or can I fix it?

That was quite an epic voyage. Well done guys.

I hope you give us more of a write up, especially on the more remote sections of the trip.

Leaving Coral Bay (Mauds Landing), the forecast was for gusting 35 and a strong wind warning. We set up the storm jib before departing for an overnight leg to Carnarvon. Highest gust we saw was 37kts. With the storm jib and double refeed main it went quite well with not too much pounding. Furler reefing on the headsail gives a pretty crap shape. The storm jib was also new and I was eager to try it out. I think we will be looking for a Number 3 or 4 headsail next.

That's about $5k better than what I was quoted for Adelaide to Wollongong.