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Episode 188: WE HIT A WHALE ?! We finally reach the Virgin Islands and catch some dinner. But once we get to anchor we discover our centerboard was broken. We believe we know when it happened during the sail, as we were tacking our way away from Curacao. ...

Episode 186 To get your set of Kamikoto knives go to: https://www.kamikoto.com/beauandbrandy FINALLY we are leaving Curacao. After months of great adventures, wonderful friends and a spruced up boat we are ready to head to the next anchorage over 400 na...

Episode 185 : Let’s not get DEMASTED Last week we sailed back to Spanish waters from Klein Curacao in one of our best sails EVER, but NOW we are getting back to work. We plan on leaving for a long sail from Curacao all the way up to US virgin islands VE...

We said we WERE NOT going to do this, WE LIED | Episode 183 Finally! We’re getting splashed after 6 weeks of hard work and being out of the water. While we have been here, we’ve been up to something. We said that we WERE NOT going to do this, but here...

ONLY 72 HOURS LEFT to Transform our boat | Episode 181 72 hours to transform our boat. It’s the final countdown! We weren’t expecting to be out of the water this long but some unforeseen challenges bubbled up. We had to extend our stay out on the har...

LITHIUM BATTERY DAMAGE on our electric sailboat (how to stop it from happening) | Episode 181 Sailing takes a toll on equipment, especially if it’s exposed to the salty air and the inevitable splash of ocean water. I’ve been wanting to build a battery...

Is the Centerboard on our sailboat a PROBLEM? | Episode 180 When we first bought Saoirse, we had no idea why there was a large pulley sitting on the counter. Low and behold we found out it was for our centerboard. We did a little bit of maintenance to it...

Closing up the holes in our boat | Episode 179 Recently we sailed to the boatyard to get hauled out here in Curacao. It’s been 2 years since we had Saoirse out of the water, so we got to work right away looking into things that needed to be fixed. But o...

Last week we hauled out our boat for what we were hoping to be a simple paint job and a dash of maintenance thrown in. Saoirse is a 1971 pearson 35 with a drop centerboard, and one of the things we had on the list to fix was the leak coming from our cente...

#177 In this episode we ask ourselves is our boat worth saving after finding a scary discovery during our haul out. Two years ago we had an emergency haul out of our boat. This time we actually scheduled a haul out in order to paint the bottom of our boa...

We are setting sail to a place we REALLY DONT want to go. But it’s something we have to do. We pick up anchor in Santa Cruz Curacao and head a 16 nm sail to Pescaderia, to Royal Marine Boatyard. There is a strong countercurrent, gusty winds, but its a be...

The power of Curacao is beautiful. Sailing against the wind and waves to the most beautiful spot in Curacao makes it well worth it. big love, Beau + Brandy #beauandbrandy #curacao #sailboat ----------------------------------------------------------------...