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Final days in the boat yard. In this episode of sailing sitka, we nearly wrap up this boat yard series by completing our last projects for our refit. Only thing let to do it finish our last coat of bottom paint and next week we SPLASH! Who's ready!? Thank ...

Did we just waste thousands of dollars on this? In this episode of sailing sitka, we come upon some sad news. After doing some regular maintenance to our wooden masts, we try out our new piece of equitment that will change the sailing game for Sitka... onl...

Hot mess in the yard. On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we begin our sailboat refit by sanding down the waterline and hull of Sitka. If that isn't hard enough, we are doing it in an extreme heat wave in the desert of Mexico!

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...

How we afford to sail offshore around the world. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we do an unboxing of boat parts and products that help us achieve the dream of sailing around the world. Season 2 of Sailing Sitka coming at you next week!! Stay tuned, plea...

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...

Cheoylee Boat Tour! On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we have a special guest with us, the biggest coconuts and coolest cats around @sailingavocet We tour their CL 41' which is nearly identical to Sitka (CL Offshore 41') Spot the similarities and differenc...

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 ...

Getting dirty in a boatyard without water! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we get down and dirty in some boat projects, one being sanding the bottom of our sailboat. Boat work on the hard is tough enough, to make it even worse, the boatyard currently has...

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...

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...