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This 6 year boat refit got us here! We spent several years refitting Sitka to get her ocean worthy. We ripped teak decks off, built a hard top dodger, sewed stack packs, glassed cabin top sidings and a cockpit floor, installed a hydrovane, sewed cockpit cu...

Sailing downwind in 25 knots, towards a pinch point in the Gulf of California. Was this a wise decision? In our defense the forecast was for 15 knots with 20 knot gusts. The winds ended up being 25 knots gusting to 33 knots. We survived with 2 reefs in our...

Music, animations, and editing by Justine, with Robi & Choco. All the sailing shenanigans that you would expect making our way on Florida's ICW... Live Updates: facebook.com/sailorama instagram.com/justinesailorama Thank you to all the patrons of thi...

We set sail for what we thought would be a leisurely 250 nm sail from Subic to the northern part of Palawan.  How naïve!  Mother nature had a full mix of wind and waves in store for us.  It felt like we were learning how to sail all over again. ❤ Jo...

Nude Latitudes sailing the Indian Ocean to the Maldives As we embark upon our longest bluewater sailing passage to date, 15 days across the Indian Ocean, we slip into the familiar rhythm of sailing life as a family on the briny, night shifts, sail change...

PEPLINK For me to be connected while being out sailing, Peplink is a must for me to keep my costs down. Yes it costs money to purchase Peplink's gear but it will save you many many times that by allowing you to connect cheaply to the internet via wifi or s...

Join us for the adventure of a lifetime as we sail our catamaran from Panama to French Polynesia, crossing the largest ocean on earth: the Pacific!

Here we go!⛵️ This week, we left the dock in Panama and began our ~3,800 nautical mile sail to French Polynesia. In this video, we show you the last of our projects and our final provisioning haul before we cast off on our biggest adventure yet! 🌊 J...

A couple of weeks ago I did a rather long video on building up a waterproof battery. In that video I showed a bit of this battery and have received requests for more information on it. So here's a short (the last video was like an hour) video on how I bu...

Sorry for the absence, let's catch up! We are under contract on a performance catamaran and are enroute now! Check out MyHeritage using https://bit.ly/TheOKellys and use code THEOKELLYS for free shipping. As an added bonus, you can start a 30-day free tria...

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On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle the crew makes it to the iconic Costa Rica anchorage of Santa Elena. We settle in to life at anchor before pushing further south to officially check in to the country. Along the way, the captain lands a trophy fi...