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It's all about to change here on Holly Blue! We begin to show you how we live completely 'off-grid' and why we have given up on homeschooling Joshua in this first episode of a brand new series. Don't worry we will be running this series along side Season ...

#atlanticcrossing #sailingfamily #familysailingblog #ocean sailing Sailing the Atlantic Ocean makes us very tired as you will see in this blog and the only thing that is keeping us occupied in the flying fish. The worst thing is that Woody's computer conk...

#fishingatsea #fishing #downwindsailing #offgridliving #guttingfish #sailingfamily You wouldn't think so much could happen on a sailboat at sea but in this video , we finally hit the 10000 nautical miles mark, we catch a fish and the wind picks up so we h...

#sailingfamily #boatrepairs #offshoresailing #atlanticcrossing #repairsatsea #bluewatersailing #autopilot #solarpanels Our Atlantic crossing was going well for a while and then our autopilot started squeaking very noisily so we tried to take it apart to g...

#atlanticcrossing #offshoresailing #oceansailing #longdistancesailing We finally set off across the Atlantic ocean from the Canaries to South America. An estimated journey of 3 weeks to cover 2700nm. Sailing offshore with 3 kids is no simple task, after m...

#flatbattery #boatmaintenance #atlanticcrossing #sailingcanaries Everyone says "if its not broken don't fix it" so when last minute things go wrong for us after we try and get on top of our maintenance schedule, we start to regret doing them in the first ...

#boatrepairs #grancanaria #atlanticcrossingpreparation #canaryislands #brexit We wait in Gran Canaria for a lot of things including Brexit so we can retain our VAT status on our boat as well as visas for Suriname. We also find ourselves waiting for mech...

#timanfaya #lanzarote #canaryislands #sailingcanaryislands After making landfall in Lanzarote, we go exploring straight away to the largest nativity ever and the Timanfaya National Park to see how the volcano impacted the land and how hot the earth still i...

A brief stopover in La Linea turned into a two week wait for a weather window to leave the Straits of Gibraltar. However, the time wasn’t totally wasted as we stocked up on English food from Morrisons’ supermarket, did home schooling projects about the...

#wintering #boatlife #coronavirus #lockdown Almerimar has been our 'Hotel California' for the last two years - every time we check in, we never leave. Both times we've had to return to the Mediterranean after missing the hurricane window to cross the Atlan...

#passagemaking #sailingwithkids #nightwatches We finally sail from Mallorca to mainland Spain on a 4 day passage . In this video, you see what life is like on a sailboat for a 4 day non stop passage at sea with children. You can see how we adjust the sai...

#outboardengineproblems #sailingbalearics #enginerepair While having fun in the water in a bay in Ibiza, our outboard motor starts leaking fuel so Woody has to take the whole thing apart while Irenka provides safety cover on the paddle board. Once fixed w...