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First offshore passage of the season! In this episode of sailing sitka, we take our newly refitted sailboat on a sail across the Sea of Cortez after weeks of working on at her on the hard! We test out all our new upgrades and sail to our first anchorage of...

Join us as we finally leave Spain and sail east to the Italian island of Sardinia. We'll show you what we get up to on passage, and that while it might sound romantic sometimes the biggest challenge on a longer crossing is keeping yourself entertained. W...

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...

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 ...

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...

We've never done this to our boat... In this episode of sailing sitka, we continue to work on our boat projects while siting on the hard in the Guaymas boat yard. This included repairing and installing our new gooseneck as well as putting a hole in our boa...

Tackling multiple boat projects. In this episode of sailing sitka, we take on a whirlwind of boat work as we start many different projects, one being our second gooseneck repair in 6 months!! It can be frustrating having so much on the go but that part of ...

There is no going back now... In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we come up with an out of the box solution to our tides marine track problem... Stupid? Maybe... but at this point we have no other option.

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...

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...

Join us this week as we finally get moving again, we head over to Mahon to avoid some bad weather, and this is where the shenanigans begin, multiple boats drag anchor in the night as a lightning storm passes. Follow us on Instagram: @at_the_hansons Subscr...

Are we crazy for re-painting the entire boat ourselves?! Short answer is yes, of course, but it needed to be done! In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we continue to sand the waterline and hull in order to prep Sitka for a fresh coat of top-part paint. It fe...