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This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES This episode features lots of sailing! After a few weeks in the Sea of Cortez we have gotten into a nice rhythm of finding nice anchorages, ha...

The last part of our passage to Mexico was a perfect demonstration of what fighting 25 knots in the Gulf Stream on a 36 foot sail boat feels like . . . Choppy seas form when wind goes against current but sometimes it's just a battle out there and there's n...

The time to sail has come! Long before we dealt with a broken shackle and jammed halyard we were preparing for this passage. But finally it's time to depart and raise the Code Zero, pointing Calico Skies' bow towards foreign shores once again! We are off t...

Welcome to this BONUS Episode of Sailing Melody In this special feature Andy takes part in the historic and famous ROUND THE ISLAND RACE, around the Isle of Whight in the Solent, probably the most famous sailing ground in the world. As part of the crew o...

TAMING THE SCREECHER - EP 43 - Sailing life on a performance cruising catamaran We are on a mission to sail to Carriacou...only we have no headsal.... The wind is a bit strong, but we have the newly repaired screecher... like a headsal on steroids, it p...

In this episode we explore the Isle of Shoals, a beautiful island located right on the border of New Hampshire and Maine. The next day we continue our journey further North, rising at 4:30 am in anticipation of a long passage. The early beginnings of our ...

It’s day four of our offshore passage north from the Bahamas headed up along the east coast of the US. Bill is about 30 miles offshore from North Carolina when the rod head on the forward lower shroud exploded. He’s sailing Calico Skies solo and Grace ...

This episode opens on night two of our passage from the northern part of the Bahamas to the east coast of the US. For this passage, Grace has joined our friends on Delos as crew and Bill has set sail solo. Together, we’re buddy boating on a northward tra...

Well this is a first for us, Calico Skies is setting out to sea for an eight hundred mile passage without Grace onboard. What?! Ya! In this episode, Grace joins the S/V Delos crew to help sail her back to the US and play with little Miss Nugget. Always up...

This episode marks the beginning of a new chapter, as the Covid Crew begins to disband and go separate ways. We experience some fantastic sailing as we start our long trek north towards the States. Being a particularly windy year we almost always had enoug...

We're in Sumatran waters now where piracy continues to plague seafarers, so what does it mean when a fishing boat follows you for some miles in open water... Innocent fishermen amused by a flying octopus? Dodgy pirates viewing SY Esper full of potential b...