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Preparing to SAIL EAST AFRICA! This video is about how we prepare our boat for our sailing season up East Africa and the problems we encounter and how we repair or overcome these issues. Robin services the windless and loses some important parts! We pull ...

In this weekly vlog of Barefoot Travels we leave the Crooked Island and head towards Long Island Bahamas. Unfortunately on route we LOST our autopilot and depth sounder. Luckily this boat is very easy to hand steer but it's still not something you want t...

We’re crossing off last minute boat projects before departing for our transatlantic passage in our 1990 Hunter 42 Passage monohull sailboat! We are: Non-Skid Decks - Painting (re-painting) our decks with KiwiGrip Watermaker - Adding and installing a sec...

Episode #241 : Season 8 : Installing and Testing Triteia's new Hydrovane Hello Friends, I am super stoked to share this video with you all! Triteia and myself haven teamed up with Hydrovane to field test an "Upcycled" unit. I have long said that Hydro...

This is how we deal with breakage and wear and tear while sailing across the Atlantic Ocean. It's our longest passage yet and we are just waiting for something to go wrong, when during a routine check of the sails we notice a dangling line that shouldn't ...

We cross a major line, making a sacrifice to Poseidon while battling squally seas in uncharted waters, sailing in the middle of nowhere! We find something we did not expect to see here... When you have a dream that requires many stages you sometimes forge...

Why are we storm chasing as we approach the equator? How we shift gears offshore. We go storm chasing and switch gears when squall after squall, storm after storm, come barreling down on us. We are nearing closer to the Equator as we hit the doldrums duri...

The boat has an accidental gybe while sailing 400 miles offshore of Guinea. The cameras were rolling. See how we react to overcome it and find out why this happened, as we sail further south into the storms of the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), AK...

A big mistake. This is how we fix problems while sailing in the open ocean. We are headed toward the equator, there is nothing for thousands of miles but blue water. #sailing #yacht #diy #bluewater Not everything is perfect all the time. Curtis complete...

We finally get to set the spinnaker, running off the coast of Africa towards South America under full sail, but while grabbing some epic drone footage, we encounter a big problem and Kate gets sliced by the drone! #sailing #yacht #spinnaker #drone #howto...

In this weeks episode, Jay surprises Kenna with a more efficient and organized idea for the clothing locker. More importantly, we fix an expensive problem with a cheap solution!!

We wake up and find ourselves off the coast of Africa. We are still being pushed by over 20 knots of wind. We had an amazing encounter in the big waves as we continue to surf our boat towards Cabo Verde, the equator, and South America. #sailing #yacht #do...