Every angler knows that fishing isn’t fishing without misadventure. Gunybi Ganambarr shares his true story of an island stranding across two powerful artworks. The metal work Djirrit 2011 shows Ganambarr and his party on a boat, etched after a snapshot taken by their rescuers. With failed engines, their ingenious escape plan led them to fashion a traditional sail for their motorboat, made from their high-vis work shirts. With its distinctive triangular sail, Macassan sail 2020 demonstrates the Yolngu people’s longstanding cultural exchange with Macassan sailors from Sulawesi, Indonesia, who came to Australian waters annually (since at least the 1700s until the early 1900s) in their search for trepang (sea cucumber) on the southern tidal swells.