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As we reached 300k on YouTube, we celebrate by letting Louis Anderson, former New Zealand rugby league international, to send me flying off our dive board! SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has sta...

We sail to Aitutaki in the Cook Islands when disaster strikes. Our buddy boat which is a 54ft Bavaria gets stuck on a reef after we were told that the channel entering the harbour had a depth of 3 meters... SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 cata...

Our Highfield dinghy is our mode of transportation when our sailboat is at anchorage. We use it for exploring, getting provisions, working on the exterior of our boat and just about anything you can think of when we leave honu. So you can imagine having a ...

It's hard to believe that we have made it down this far in the Caribbean in our first real sailing season. We are now out of the hurricane hot zone and ready to start enjoying what the Caribbean has to offer. We have sailed through many storms, beautiful ...

In this episode we sail from the Tuamotu islands to Makatea island, which only has 3 mooring balls outside of it. All of them were taken but the local guide says that we can tie up to the dinghy dock. I calculate that we will have 1 foot of clearance betwe...

This was a storm that we had been tracking in the Caribbean for almost 2 weeks. The storm was expected to make landfall as a Category 1 Hurricane. A weather event that we had no idea of what to expect but we were prepared and terrified at the same time. ...

St. Lucia has been an eye-opening 👀 experience for us. It has slingshot us to the reality that we do still need to beware of our surroundings. To be vigilant about what's happening in the countries we are visiting and not get overly stressed 😯 about ...

The fear that this day would come has always played in our minds. You think you are prepared for it but when the situation actually arrives all plans go out the window. Dealing with unwanted visitors is always difficult, but when they are super fast, scu...

Get a ticket to our homecoming in Auckland here! https://rayc.co.nz/event/parlay-party/#tribe-tickets__tickets-form In this episode Katie and Zoe offer to do a 48 hour liferaft challenge, in the middle of an atoll in French Polynesia. They suddenly reali...

Anything can happen when you are out on this great vast ocean. What can be a magical ride can turn into a nightmare in the blink of an eye. This boating lifestyle that we are now living has taught us that we always need to be prepared for whatever life t...

Here is the link to Part 1 if you want to start from the beginning! https://youtu.be/DgcYmH9s7Lg This week we enter the dreaded doldrums, where it is just one squall after another for days on end. But we get serious about what it would mean to have to ab...

Welcome to part 1 of our Pacific crossing series! We finally set sail across the largest ocean in the world from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and sail 3000 miles to the Marquesas islands, in French Poynesia. But we get off to a very rough start for one of the ...