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We've brought our floating home to the capital city of Amsterdam where we explore the UNESCO world heritage site, get acquainted with the bicycle culture before taking our personal canal boat through the famous Amsterdam Canals. We then fix our transducer...

This is our introductory video to a series on docking a sailboat. This video introduces a set of processes which will allow you to dock your boat with grace and style. The follow on seven video episodes in this series will address each individual dock sk...

This fifth video in our Sail Trim series explains how to manage close-hauled sailing, including both sail trimming rules and helm handling.

This video is the third in our Sail Trim series and explains the procedures for upwind sailing.

This Sail Trim video discusses sailing wing and wing, what issues may occur and how to handle them.

This Sail Trim series video explains how to handle your sheets and sails when sailing off the wind. Offwind means the wind is coming from aft of the boat. We'll do another Sail Trim video for upwind sailing, meaning sailing into the wind.

This video is the first of a series on how to trim your sails. It introduces the concept of the two wind forces, lift and push/drag, how they differ and how to make use of them.

This video introduces the basics of anchoring your boat.

Rain, maintaining, clearance, laundry, shopping and running around looking for things is a big part of a sailors life. Of course that is not what we like the most but it is necessary, even in nice places like American Samoa and Samoa. :) We hope you find t...

Sorry for losing a week, as you may know San Blas its not know for having much phone service aka internet. We hope this video makes it for the lost week. The trip to Panama was expected to be all plain sailing. Does that sound right? OF course not. We br...

Sorry for losing a week, as you may know San Blas its not know for having much phone service aka internet. We hope this video makes it for the lost week. Margarida has gone for family reasons and I find 2 patreons to come and help me sail to Panama. Doug...

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