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Join us in this educational YT short as we sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the gentle breeze of the trade winds. Learn about the Beaufort Wind Scale, a valuable tool in measuring wind speed, and discover how "gentle breeze" is actually a technical term r...

Despite conflicting reports on the re-opening of Madagascar to sailing yachts, we're investigating and planning the tricky sail across the Mozambique channel. The "traditional" route is direct from Richards Bay to Tulear (Southern Madagascar), but it's dif...

With trade winds blowing south east every day, it is rare that when heading south east, you can sail downwind. But it happened! We had the perfect weather, with clocking winds that would give us a chance to sail downwind even while sailing around the Berr...

Hello Everyone! Here we are in Norman's Cay, one of our stops down the Exumas. We heard of a couple of places to check out including an old drug lords house and sunken plane! Our friends from Penyav IV also decided to take us to dinner! This was one of the...

Follow Polar Seal across the Atlantic! www.ryanandsophie.com/#tracking In this video, we explain how sailboats have crossed the Atlantic for hundreds of years! We go through Trade Winds (in particular the equatorial trade winds), how they form, why they a...

Sailing to Puerto Rico took a lot of weather watching and planning but we did it. Thank you Audible for sponsoring this video! Get your first audiobook and two Audible originals free when you try Audible for 30 days visit https://www.audible.com/tula or te...

The wind had been blowing hard the last week in Guna Yala (San Blas), Panama and when we sail back towards mainland we get to experience how big the waves can be when they get pushed between the reefs. After a pit stop in Narganá we have a really smooth s...

2021 voyage is here: https://youtu.be/Oz8wpl9YG1o Christian Williams retraces an old route in a new boat. Closed Captions (CC) available. Music: "Dance of the Kordies," Les Paul Trio; "Like Someone in Love,"* Coleman Hawkins on tenor sax; "The Boy in the...

Ep52. This episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take you out on our 2nd day on the BVI Catamaran Sailing Trip where we visit the Bitter End Yacht Club in Virgin Gorda for dinner. It was a bit of a gong show getting there with 6 of us squeezed into a small din...

Available at Amazon. "Alone Together: Sailing Solo to Hawaii and Beyond" by Christian Williams. East Wind Press, 286 pages. Pub date March 6, 2016. Watch the YouTube Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28TAdDu5L6U In 15 years at The Washington P...

Here's the final video (Part 3) of our Atlantic Ocean crossing. We sailed 2800+ miles on our 56' Oyster sailboat with 6 adults and 1 five-year-old. Part 3 shows the final days of our voyage - Watch the captain swim in the sea, I catch my first mahimahi, An...