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Whats it like sailing your home between countries? Well, come watch and we'll show you! This week we do a long sail from Guadeloupe back down to Martinique through 2 acceleration zones with wind on the nose before dropping anchor just at sunset. Then conti...

This week we sail close hauled for 24hrs in 20knots with 2m swell in the Caribbean...with a few acceleration zones in between! We hit a storm, have some fun and arrive safely in Guadeloupe! Surprisingly, it was extremely comfortable but gets annoying sit...

In this one, we get off the boat to check out an abandoned fish cannery, and go for a hike to a lake to do some trout fishing. We face light winds as we claw our way up the rest of Princess Royal Channel, and do a bit of night sailing. The sunny weather ...

Welcome to Episode 4 of our adventure to Alaska! In this one, we depart Alert Bay and enter Queen Charlotte Sound where we experience the Pacific Ocean swell for the first time on this trip. Heavy squalls allow us to make great progress to Beaver Harbour...

In this episode, we continue north from Otter Cove at the junction of Discovery Passage and Johnstone Strait up to Alert Bay. As we sail off the anchor, Alex's shoe goes overboard! Ellis documents the skillful recovery of this critical piece of gear, and...

Anchored at Lucky Bay we undertake some essential maintenance, food preparation and fishing while awaiting favorable winds to continue our passage. With no more time left to wait we depart hoping the winds will back the compass as predicted... KEEP US SA...

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

There's a good reason that gentlemen never sail to weather. It's splashy, chaotic, and ungentlemanly in every way. However, since there are no gentlemen aboard our sailboat, we are exempt from this rule - therefore we often beat our brains out as we smash...

In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I am sailing solo back to my home port in Kingston. I will show you what it takes to sail solo when the direction you need to go is dead into the wind. This requires you to sail "close hauled" (as close as your boat ...

Warning for some bloody footage in this episode but it's not too bad. We left Grenada with Privateer, a Nautor Swan 60, to sail in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. We had some really awesome sailing up to Union Island and we sailed over the underwater volca...