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BOAT LIFE! What life is like aboard our Cheoylee Offshore 41', Sitka. On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we are moored up in Puerto Escondido, a bay in the lovely Sea of Cortez, Mexico. While here, we attend to some much needed fixings on the boat, as well ...

Sitka is becoming a sailboat again. In this episode of sailing sitka, we start putting together some essentials to make our boat operational again. This includes testing our tides marine track to see how it holds our mainsail!! Please make sure to subscrib...

In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we return to our boat after 4 months away and after she survived a sandstorm up to 90 knot winds. We organize and clean the exterior and interior of Sitka to get her in a more liveable shape as well as get adjusted to a ma...

Saying goodbye to our boat... In this episode of sailing sitka, we use our last day in the yard to clean up Sitka as best as we could in order to leave her stored in the yard for 3 months! We fly home to Canada to work in order to save up some cruising cas...

Hauling a$$ on the hard. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we are off to a rough start with day 1 in the Guaymas boatyard. This video contains boat projects that we need to get done within a span of 6 days before relocating our boat. Hot, blind and s...

Haul out prep in the northerner sea of Cortez. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we arrive in Guaymas, Mexico where we start to prepare our Sailboat for her haul out date! In order to be ready, we tackle side jobs to be fully ready for Sitka to be li...

We organized, worked on the AC, goofed off on deck, tried to figure what the inside of the hatches should look like, and danced. While working on the AC we discovered a naughty knot transducer leak. It was simply not tightened enough. The 10 gauge wiring...

After living in Key West Florida for a few months we accumulated more stuff than we needed. I feel like most people living on a boat should plan on decluttering every few months. You will end up finding things at the bottom of your lazaret, that you never...