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Sailing to an uninhabited island with a stranger! In this episode, we sail from San Evaristo to Ensenada De La Raza on Espirtu Santo Island in Mexico. When doing so, we got asked by a stranger (a former crew member on a boat we shared the anchorage with) i...

This 6 year boat refit got us here! We spent several years refitting Sitka to get her ocean worthy. We ripped teak decks off, built a hard top dodger, sewed stack packs, glassed cabin top sidings and a cockpit floor, installed a hydrovane, sewed cockpit cu...

This is what we live for! On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we sail from San Jaunico to Isla Coronados which turns out to be a glorious down wind sail. Our 1976 Cheoylee Offshore 41 sailboat LOVES sailing wing on wing and we are reminded exactly why we do ...

Between the leaky boat, lack of sleep and our drained batteries... our boat and our cruising life has been stressful... but nothing can stop us from sailing on! In this weeks episode we "escape" the rolley, exhausting and windy anchorage of Punta Pulpito a...

Sailing with sea turtles in Mexico. Why is there so many? In this episode of sailing sitka, we continue our sail north towards Guaymas, but first stopping in Mazatlan to re-provision. It can be tough to get diesel and water in Mexico but we have our ways.....

In this weeks episode, we explore what's left to explore in Mazatlan. We then pull up the hook after provisioning and sail south towards Puerto Vallarta. During the first part of this sail, Kenna catches a big Mahi Mahi that will feed us on what's left of ...

In this weeks episode, we make our way across the Sea of Cortez, from La Paz straight to Mazatlan. What we thought was going to be "smooth sailing" turned into a bumpier ride than anticipated. Nothing some fresh fish and dolphins can't fix!

This episode contains it ALL! We sail offshore towards Magdalena Bay here in Mexico to only discover the most beautiful topography we've seen yet! (Yes, we catch it all on the drone!) Along with a beached sailboat, natural mangroves that we explore and som...

In this episode, we depart Ensenada in efforts to sail towards Bahia Tortuga. What turned into a 3 day passage made up for lots of time to fish, cook and film! We hope you enjoy this episode and join us next time for footage of our first ever anchorage in ...

RIG FAILURE OFFSHORE. In this episode we enjoy the best qualities of sailing offshore. Dolphins, tuna, watching movies and warm weather...suddenly interrupted by a drastic emergency with the rig within seconds. Sailing offshore will be the best times of yo...

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. ...

We're sailing from Panama to St. Maarten - Over 1300nm UPWIND in our 49' Oyster. It's so rough we had to stop in Colombia to let off a sick crew-member. Join us for a talk about WHAT exactly we are doing, and WHO the crew is now.