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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...

This made it all worth it! In this episode of sailing sitka, we sail and anchor in paradise! This is our first anchorage of the season after months of boat work on the hard. We soak it all in by playing in the waves and adventuring ashore. Stay tuned next ...

SPLASH DAY! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we FINALY splash our sailboat after 3 week on the hard!! After we finish last minute projects and painting the bottom, we get lifted up and back into the ocean where Sitka belongs. If you enjoy this video, plea...

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...

More paint and bigger holes. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue painting the third and final coat of top part paint but not before making a larger hole in the bottom of our boat. "Absolute nightmare" as Jay puts it...

We found holes in our boat! In this episode, we start day 4 in the Guaymas boatyard by inspecting the blisters and bubbles we found on our keel. We figure out what need immediate attention and also figure out a game plan on how to address them. We start cl...

Sanding the bottom of our Cheoylee Offshore 41 sailboat. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue sanding below the waterline on the portside, to ready her for fresh bottom paint when we fly back to Mexico next season. We found a couple problem areas ...

Hauling out our cheoylee offshore 41 sailboat in Mexico. The time has come! We are officially taking Sitka out of the water in Guaymas, Mexico. The process was not as smooth as we would have liked being a sailboat with 2 masts in a small slip with an excep...

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...

Starting our 700nm journey north. In this episode, we say our goodbyes to La Cruz, a port that has been our home for 3 long months while Sitka was under repair. Now we have lifted anchor and set sail for our 700NM journey north towards Guaymas, Mexico. The...

144 hours in Guatemala! In this weeks episode, we fly from Mexico to Guatemala to renew our visas. We did as much as we could while seeing, eating and drinking everything. You'll see in this episode we take a trip to Antigua, Guatemala which is home to the...

Sailing from Zadar to Pag Island, Sailing the treacherous Velebit Channel and arriving at what looks like the moon! Getting stuck on Pag island.