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This 6 year boat refit got us here! We spent several years refitting Sitka to get her ocean worthy. We ripped teak decks off, built a hard top dodger, sewed stack packs, glassed cabin top sidings and a cockpit floor, installed a hydrovane, sewed cockpit cu...

BOAT LIFE! What life is like aboard our Cheoylee Offshore 41', Sitka. On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we are moored up in Puerto Escondido, a bay in the lovely Sea of Cortez, Mexico. While here, we attend to some much needed fixings on the boat, as well ...

This is what we live for! On this episode of Sailing Sitka, we sail from San Jaunico to Isla Coronados which turns out to be a glorious down wind sail. Our 1976 Cheoylee Offshore 41 sailboat LOVES sailing wing on wing and we are reminded exactly why we do ...

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...

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 ...

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.

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...

Go to https://drinkag1.com/distantshores to get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3+K2 and 5 AG1 travel packs with your first purchase. Thanks to AG1 for sponsoring today's video! Join us as we make the trip to the 2023 Annapolis Sailboat Show where we...

Dear Judges of the Best Refit Category: Thank you for your consideration! We dedicated our entire lives for over a year to this overwhelming refit and created a YouTube channel to share all of our blood, sweat (a ton of it,) and tears with the world. Bel...

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 ...

It had been a hellacious night passage and tensions were high as the uncertain state of our engine loomed over us, but as we set our hook in Morro Bay we felt our troubles melt away... momentarily anyways. We celebrated our first Thanksgiving aboard, visit...

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...