B2B Castaways - the cult Australian sailing-and-survival channel run by Strick and Fran - dropped a 100-day movie 15 hours ago tracing their first full season aboard a freshly refit catamaran. By the time we publish, the video has cracked 65,000 views, and the fishing footage threaded through it is the strongest land-and-sea content the channel has put online.
The brief, in their own words at the start of the film, is the wild end of Australia. From the Great Barrier Reef up to the tip of Cape York, west into Arnhem Land if the weather holds, and home before the cyclone season closes the door.
"This is going to be a pretty wild ride, I reckon," Strick told the camera as the boat went into the water. "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 boat - rechristened Ramalicious in honour of a mate's homebrew rum - is the central character. Fran spends the opening sequence repainting interiors, swapping the sink and rebuilding the fridge until Strick admits that the result feels closer to a hotel room than a boat. Within hours of dropping anchor on Bat Reef the trip's first big fish, a Spanish mackerel, was on the deck.
"Whoa. Holy moly, we got one," Strick called as Fran fought it. "Wow, that's a huge Spanish mackerel. Our first good fish. Our first fish on Ramalicious."
The Reef tucker chapter that follows is what the channel has built its audience on. Mangrove stalks for blue mud crab. Reef hopping for footballer trout and coronation trout. A crayfish pulled out from under a ledge by hand. The largest mud crab claw, by Strick's count, the boat has produced in years.
"That is a giant blue mud crab that we're after," he said as Fran hooked a fish nearby. "We've got an absolute giant. That is the biggest mud crab claw I reckon we've caught in years. That is incredible. 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 were dangerous and the second dive was abandoned. The same chapter produced a Castaway Kitchen sequence with chilli mud crab on fresh-baked bread that runs for several minutes and reads, even on screen, as one of the meals that keep Fran posting.
Not every story line was light. A whirring noise behind the bunk turned into a serious water leak that required pumping out. Storm cells closed off anchorages on multiple nights. The west coast leg from Cape York towards Weipa was the hardest sailing of the season, and the family-and-friends turnover - Fran flying out for a wedding, Strick's father flying in - 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 towards their cyclone mooring at Weipa, the crew encountered repeated illegal Indonesian fishing boats and almost no Australian vessels.
"We stumble across something pretty dodgy," Strick says in narration. "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 here matters. Australian Border Force has confirmed in 2026 that foreign fishing vessel intercepts are running at multi-year highs, and B2B Castaways' on-the-water count - tourist sailors seeing more Indonesian fishing boats than Australian ones in remote Cape York waters - is the cleanest civilian dispatch from the same fishery this season.
The last act takes the boat onto a cyclone-rated mooring at Weipa, on the bet that the area has not seen a serious cyclone in twenty years. Strick acknowledges, on camera, that the decision may not age well.
"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."