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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...

What is Sailing without something breaking?! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we sail from Puerto Escondido to Agua Verde but not without some unnecessary breakages and loses... Subscribe if you enjoy!

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 ...

It's our second day at sea and, between sails adjustments, keeping watch, and our first Hydrovane wind vane test, there's a lot going on! Drake and Éanna catch up and talk future plans, past trips, and...medical emergencies!?! Let's just say we learned th...

Hand steering in sporty conditions. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we sail from Ballandra to Escondido in 25-30 knots. Once we get there, we dive into two major breakages onboard Sitka... Thanks for watching!

We need to leave now! In this episode of sailing sitka, we sail from Isla Coronados to Loreto so we can provision on food, water, diesel ect. When doing so, things turned for the worst and we had to abort our already-unprotected anchorage in Loreto and b-l...

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...

In this episode of sailing sitka, we sail to a remote volcanic peninsula located in Baja California, Mex. We sailed south from Bahia Conception to Punta Pulpito and had a beautiful down-wind sail for 8 hours. We show what it is like to sail on our Cheoylee...

Life onboard an offshore sailboat at anchor! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we pick up anchor and move destinations. This time, we explore Santispec here in Bahia Conception. Boat life can consist of both ups and downs... the reality is, you will experi...

What powers our adventures while sailing? Good question! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we arrive in an anchorage referred to by Playa Coyote here on the Baja Coast of Mexico. While in cruising and sailing, we always get asked, how do you do what you do...

100th episode straight!!! Can you believe it!? Because we sure can't! In this weeks episode of sailing sitka, we take a short day sail to a new anchorage further south. From Chiapas to Bahia Conception, we show you life at sea and what a short sail consist...