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This episode is as close as it gets to traveling in history! We get a glimpse inside another lifestyle in one of the worlds most remote villages and go aboard a Chilean artisanal wooden fishing boat. #lifestyle #history #fishing We take you on an upwin...

Meet one of the BRAVEST Sailors in the World (who's circumnavigated Antarctica, solo, twice!!!). Lisa Blair batted treacherous storms and freezing temperatures.

In trying to be cheerier, I set about cleaning the floorboards and the bilge, while managing the leak which we have slowed to 4 drips per minute. ( about a table spoon a minute). But to move on from a temporary fix I need to resolve three issues 1. Findi...

To be disabled at sea was unsettling in itself, but when i discovered my boat had a leak once in harbour, self-doubt flooded in. This is an account of what happened on January 15, 2021. With only a 24 hour notice I had to change plans and rather than a...

In this final video of 2021, I attend to an electrical problem on board (back on shore power for the first time in nine months), install new lines, hoist the flags and then cycle around Nagasaki to revisiting places like Martyrs Hill where I have led bicyc...

Sailing into Nagasaki! A dream come true. As with other Kyushu ports I had been to before, I had arrived by bicycle. A city rich historically, culturally, and topographically, to arrive by sea is a real treat, particularly given that the city just celeb...

It is my second time visiting Akune, Western Kyushu. This time by boat but 21 years ago by bicycle. I am grateful to Kaminota and his family for their kindness. It was my last stop before realizing a dream . . . sailing into Nagasaki. Nagasaki adventure...

At my last two ports, I have moored at Sea Stations ( Umi no Eki) and as they were very different in style and cost I thought that some viewers would like to take a tour of each. I have stayed at several Sea Stations in Japan as well as Marinas ( where yo...

I am learning a myriad of things. Next is setting up genoa traveler. Advice is gratefully received. I have my own ideas but one aspect of setting up the traveler puzzles me. This episode also includes fun times with good people in the last two ports I h...

While waiting for the right conditions to round Cape Sata, I moved to Calm Lanai Harbor and enjoyed a few days of convenience and to some measure of luxury ( Toilet and bath only 30 seconds from the dock!). Join me for a tour of Calm Lanai Harbor. Then bec...

My next challenge is to round Cape Sata, the southernmost tip of Kyushu. I have to time it carefully with the tides and also deal with the meandering Kuroshio current. Its a waiting game. In the meantime, I am waiting it out in Aburatsu and have been tak...

Well, this was unexpected. Strings and patches of pumice from the eruption in the Ogasawara Islands ( where a new island has been forming since August) have reached Amami Oshima and clogging up some of the harbors. I feel bad for the fisherman whose liv...