We sailed down the coast of Portugal once Ava flew home, and found ourselves in beautiful sand dunes, and amongst the Fado music. We tried some of the pates and fish stews of the local fare, and also found ourselves in a dangerous condition while anchored ...
Episode 9, here I am beginning to understand the hardships of videoing with just an iPad. We needed to fix our dinghy davits because they had some rot in them from the hot Florida sun. Aboard Norna there are no winches, so I wanted to show how everything i...
After our 43 day sail across the Atlantic, we arrived in Spain. Ava and her grandparents arrived to explore a new place with us. Ava captures her experience in her perspective. I did not have a YouTube channel at the time, and a lot of the pictures and vid...
This is a video of all the work needed before we took our two year Atlantic Circumnavigation. When I had first met Pete, there was no interior. He had lived aboard my boat Happy, while we spent the winter fixing up his boat Norna. We had built an interior,...
Episode 8, enter Ava and Pete. Ava is Pete's daughter, and I am her step mother, she was about 7 or 8 in these videos. I wanted to show what kids can do aboard a sailboat, and the fun we can have while being anchored out. I also wanted to introduce them in...
Episode 7, I had captured videos of jerry jugging water while living on the hook, and wanted to show how much is done to conserve water, especially when each drop is transported from shore to the boat. While being anchored out, there is not the luxury of a...
It was a 43 day journey across the Atlantic, from St. Augustine FL to Bermuda to Baiona Spain.In this video I wanted to show our journey as we sailed our sailboat named Norna across blue waters. I did not have a YouTube channel at the time, and wished I ha...
Episode 6, I had filmed this video on the same day that I filmed Episode 5. I wanted to cover the composing toilet, and the dreaded conversation every sailor has... how to be environmentally friendly, and also legal with working toilets aboard a sailboat. ...
Episode 5, this video is super basic, but is also something I wanted to cover when I first started my YouTube channel. I did not go into a lot of description and still was learning how to edit. Most of my filming at this point was done with an iPad, and wh...
Episode 4, you are probably wondering, what is this? I was actually experimenting with editing on my iPad and did not understand much on YouTube. I wanted to give a tour of Norna, and also wanted to try out all the little special effects iMovie offered. I ...
Oh boy, episode 3, yeah... this one kind of made me mad. I had originally recorded this video with my iPad, but because i was a novice to editing, I had accidentally deleted all of my videos. I was then forced to repack all of my stuff in plastic bags, whi...
Episode 2, laundry day. This is the second video I posted on my channel. I actually posted it on the same day as I had rowed into shore to bring my laundry to the washer and drier of the marina we were moored off of. It is a pretty basic video of tiny livi...
Here is Episode 1, the very first video I ever posted to YouTube of living on our sailboat Norna. We had returned from sea, and I was just in the process of writing my book ACCIDENTAL SAILOR GIRL. I had originally started the channel to help sell copies, o...
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