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We slip the lines in La Linea and got ourselves tucked up in the Marina Bay Marina in Gibraltar. It is a great marina with good facilities and helpful staff. We treated it a bit like a holiday because once in Gibraltar we were no longer taking time out of...

We are settling in to La Linea with the Gibraltar rock on our door step, it never gets boring coming up on deck. With the rock in mind and Rebecca Birthday the next day, we hatch a plan to cross into Gib and see the sights it has to offer and of course cel...

We set off from Barbate on another warm, sunny, calm day along the beautiful coast, it reminds us of the Scottish coast, that we left behind so long ago just with the difference in temperature. The tide is slack for the first half of the day and then star...

#whalesattack #Gibraltarstraights We finally arrive in La Linea on the Spanish side of the boarder with Gibraltar. We have some big news for you, which are quite upsetting. We help our friends move their boat to the travel lift as they were attacked by ...

#internalwaves #crossthestraights In this video we plan our trip through the Gibraltar Straights from the west at Barbate to La Linea in Spain right next to the rock. Thanks for watching! Please subscribe and leave a comment. To support our work ❤️ ...

Wow what a night sail! We left Rota near Cadiz, had some great strong winds and sailed through the night past Trafalgar to Gibraltar. As the sunrose over the beautiful misty mountains we reached the straight of Gibraltar. After exploring Gibraltar and La L...

This is an FTB Extra to accompany Vlog 059 (http://bit.ly/ftb_vlog059) We give you the low-down on how much our sails costs, and chat to Phil about the sail-making process and how he came up with our sail designs. As always this episode has been brought...

We got new sails! We put them up and have a quick chat with Phil from Zoom sails about the process of making them. For the first time we've published two videos concurrently because the other episode is an FTB Extra, and it's all about our sails...and how ...

We install our Lofrans Tigres windlass but you know for every positive achievement there's a whole bunch of dark clouds hanging over us. The outboard is buggered, the toilet is leaking and now we've cooked our batteries. Will we ever get to leave for Indon...

How to choose a windlass. Or, what windlass should we buy to replace our mangled mess at the front of the boat? There's some technical boat maintenance stuff in this episode but there's also some rather splendid drone footage of the beautiful tropical isla...

Imagine if this windlass malfunction happened on a remote Indonesian coast? In this episode Jamie reaches the end of his tether when the anchor windlass decides it has had enough. In order to diagnose the problem it has to be removed from the deck, and th...

'Mirabella V' (M5), is the world's largest single-masted yacht, whilst 'Coracle' is the world's first bamboo schooner. And back in olde England Liz discovers where in 1583 Sir Walter Raleigh set off on his third expedition to 'The New World'! In this epis...