B2B Castaways - the live-from-the-ocean Australian sailing channel run by Strick and Fran - have dropped a 100-day movie that traces their first full season aboard a refit catamaran called Ramalicious. Posted 15 hours ago and on roughly 65,000 views, the film is the most ambitious land-and-sea story the channel has put together.
The opening minutes establish the ambition. Cape York to Arnhem Land if the weather permits, a return south before cyclone season closes the run, and a brief that explicitly accepts the wrong time of year for the trip.
"This is going to be a pretty wild ride, I reckon," Strick told the camera as Fran finished repainting the boat's interior. "It's the wrong season to do it, but we're just going to go for it. Hopefully, we don't bump into a cyclone."
The first chapter is the boat itself. Fran spends weeks rebuilding the interior - sink, fridge, lights, paint - until even Strick admits that the vessel feels closer to a hotel suite than the catamaran they bought. By the time Ramalicious slides into the water and the rig is up, they are 8 knots north of Cairns and on the Great Barrier Reef before sunset.
The Spanish mackerel that lights up the trolling rod at Bat Reef, the first night, sets the tone.
"Whoa. Holy moly, we got one," Strick called as Fran fought the fish. "Wow, that's a huge Spanish mackerel. Our first good fish. Our first fish on Ramalicious."
The Reef tucker chapter that follows is the best argument for the channel. Mangrove walks for blue mud crab, with Fran spotting holes and Strick checking them. Reef hops for footballer trout and coronation trout. A crayfish hand-pulled out of a ledge for two-person dinner. The largest mud crab claw the boat has produced in years.
"That is a giant blue mud crab that we're after," Strick said. "We've got an absolute giant. That is the biggest mud crab claw I reckon we've caught in years. Look how big it goes into my hand. That is the definition of a giant mud crab."
The shipwreck side-quest - a dive on a structure Strick suspected was the long-lost wreck of a vessel called the Freak - turned out to be coral. The metal detector did not register, the currents shut down the second dive, and the chapter pivoted to a chilli mud crab and fresh-bread Castaway Kitchen sequence that runs for several minutes and reads as another argument for the brand.
Not every plot line was light. A whirring noise behind the bunk turned into a serious water leak that needed pumping out before sleep. Storm cells closed off anchorages on multiple nights. The west coast leg from Cape York towards Weipa was the season's hardest sailing, and the family-and-friends turnover - Fran flying out for a wedding mid-trip, Strick's father flying in to crew the southern leg - reads like a small documentary about who actually ends up on remote sailing trips.
The sting in the tail is geopolitical rather than meteorological. Heading down the west coast of Cape York, the crew encountered repeated illegal Indonesian fishing boats and almost no Australian vessels.
"We stumble across something pretty dodgy," Strick narrates. "Illegal boats that look like they have come across from Indonesia. A bit of an eerie feeling comes over us as we realise that we've now seen something that we shouldn't have and what the repercussions of that might be. We would see more illegal Indonesian fishing boats than any other Australian boats."
The context behind that count matters. Australian Border Force has confirmed in 2026 that foreign fishing vessel intercepts are running at multi-year highs. B2B Castaways' on-the-water observation - tourist sailors recording more Indonesian than Australian fishing boats in remote Cape York waters - is the cleanest civilian dispatch from the same fishery this season.
"It hasn't had a serious cyclone there in about 20 years," he said. "So, it seems like the best option for us, but might be a decision that doesn't age too well. See you on next week's episode when we come to regret this decision."