YouTube Videos
E35 CHRISTMAS on a sailboat in MOROCCO
Merry (belated) Christmas everyone! Join us this week as we celebrate Christmas with Chatty (Flick's sister), Lisa (Flick's best friend from school), and Chris and Amy from Sailing Saffron. We combine our cooking efforts to create an amazing Christmas Din...
E34 REPAIR Raymarine Linear Drive AUTOPILOT (how to save $2,000)
Join us this week on Sailing Nendaz as I get to work trying to repair our Raymarine (Raytheon) Type 2 Linear Drive Unit. This is our autopilot unit. It broke 1 hour into a 24 hour passage. We couldn't really turn around as we had doggy visa issues, and we ...
E33 EXPLORING AFRICA (Tangier, Morocco) with FAMILY
Join us in this weeks episode as we explore a little bit of what Morocco has to offer us. We did it, we sailed from Vilamoura, Portugal to Tangier, Morocco and in this episode we get to settle in, and explore. We will now spend 3 months here in order to ...
E32 FIVE reasons NEVER to buy an OLD SAILBOAT
Join us this week on Sailing Nendaz as we give our thoughts on why buying an old sailboat might not necessarily be the best choice to make. 00:00 Intro 01:55 Age 04:15 History 07:26 Speed 10:24 Space 11:10 Insurance 12:56 Conclusion Follow us on Instagra...
E31 We SAIL to AFRICA, autopilot FAILURE, big waves KNOCK DOWNS
Join us this week on Sailing Nendaz as we sail from Vilamoura, Portugal to Tangier, Morocco. We sail to Africa! Because of some strict red tape around exporting/ importing dogs from Portugal to Morocco our weather window was very compromised. We were also...
E30 Sailing with our dog (hidden costs, pet passport, red tape)
In this episode we sit down and discuss the logistics of having a dog onboard our sailboat, how we navigate getting him on and off the boat, how he goes to the toilet, and how we navigate border crossings. In general there is a lot of paperwork and costs...
E29 Our SAILING adventure is almost OVER (for now), but first an UNEXPECTED roadblock
Join us this week as we travel from Lagos to Vilamoura. We run into trouble attempting to negotiate the bureaucracy that is exporting and importing our dog (Walter) out of Portugal and into Morocco. First we tried to get a rabies titer test performed o...
E28 CAPSIZED our DINGHY exploring a BEAUTIFUL CAVE + talking about ANXIETY whilst sailing
This video sort of has two tones to it, it hopefully shows the amazing time we had exploring a section of the Algarve Coast (Benagil Cave) with some close friends, but also shows the harder side to sailing, and that is when somebody onboard is suffering wi...
E27 REAL LIFE living aboard our SAILBOAT (RAW, UNEDITED sailing Algarve Coast)
In this episode we I had another go at doing a unpolished, simple edit. No voiceover. No music. I'm trying to show what a normal sail looks like for us, Flick does a bit of work (if sea state allows) and Walt and I stay on deck and keep an eye out. We sa...
E26 OFF-GRID living, WEEKS at ANCHOR (WAKEBOARDING* with DOLPHINS)
Join us in the Algarve where we realise we've spent fourteen days at anchor, fully off grid and self-sufficient. One of our favourite week's aboard Nendaz so far, with beautiful sunshine and the bluest seas we found out a much speedier use for the paddle b...
Ep21 Bay of Biscay
Ep 21 in this video we get the right weather window to set off across the Bay of Biscay. With a healthy combination of nerves and excitement we cast the lines and head out of the Marina Moulin Blanc. The weather is good but the wind is a little light so th...
