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Installing our windvane! Thank you to so many of you that contributed to making this happen. We are SO grateful ❤️ Thanks for watching! p.s. I try and reply to as many comments as I can but we are still so so busy so please do not take it personally �...

In this episode we explore the Isles of Rum climb another mountain and see something special! A big thanks to all our existing and new subscribers. We love your comments, likes and feedback Please share it really helps us out Thanks for watching, hope ...

This week we head into the beautiful Shelter bay marina to finally install our Hydrovane, and a few other maintenance jobs that one has to do owning a boat. In the 30 + heat we put piece by piece together and Kieran drills several hols in Merewether, not a...

Thinking about getting a wind vane? We answer all of your questions: Why get a wind vane? What does it cost? Which models and brands are out there? What are the disadvantages? Why did we choose Hydrovane? What are the disadvantages? And all other questions...

Top ten sailing solar power myths. If you do enjoy the videos please help me continue to make them as your support is the only way I can keep making these https://paypal.me/HowToSailing?locale.x=en_US please consider becoming a Patreon, you do get acces...

Windvane versus autopilot, what one will you choose? What to know, how to compare, learn the differences, and see how the different styles of windvane work. If you do enjoy the videos please help me continue to make them as your support is the only way I...

All of our sailboat repair and maintenance blogs are now hosted on our dedicated maintenance channel, MOTHERSHIP MAINTENANCE Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/c/mothershipmaintenance An edited version of this video is now hosted here: https://you...

Greenland makes its own rules. Any port in a storm doesn't quite work if there is a glacier calving icebergs in 30+ knots of wind. Forced to leave our anchorage we set our sights on a tiny weather station where we hope to find refuge and perhaps even a fri...

Go Small. Go Simple. Go Now. Bigger is not always better, especially when it comes to a sailboat. While rafted up to a Swedish boat, Relax, in Nanortalik we meet some sailors from Catalonia and Spain aboard a boat that partly inspired Drake's cruising drea...

Our final stretch of this passage involved rounding cape hatteras and slowly making our way through the fog and into the Chesapeake bay Missed the previous steps of this passage? Check it out: Step 170: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udxhdCveox0 Step 1...

(UPDATE: SAM MADE IT SAFE AND SOUND TO HILO!) Hello Friends! This is a special episode where I interview my friend and marina neighbor Sam Holmes who, by the time this was uploaded, departed for Hawaii in his Ranger 23 named "Swedish Fish" Our regular ...

On his solo, nonstop record setting around the Americas circumnavigation, Matt Rutherford relied on a Monitor windvane. Technically, he was "coastal cruising" a few hundred miles offshore and through the Arctic's Northwest Passage. However, on his 10K mile...