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June 8, 2025
Calico Skies Sailing – Page 5
End of an Era; Our Last Passage in the Atlantic (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep.136)
We leave the San Blas after cruising the tropical paradise for a whole two months - It feels too short but a canal crossing is on the horizon! We haul anchor, set the Spinnaker and zoom off following Delos our buddy boat. It’s a lovely passage and after ...
The Surprising Things We Learned Transiting the Panama Canal.. What does it cost?! FINES?! (Ep.137)
This episode begins at Shelter Bay Marina near the entrance to the Panama Canal. We’ve just arrived after a beautiful two day passage from the San Blas Islands, squeezing in behind the break wall after successfully circling around a tanker in a stiff bre...
How I Nearly Blew Up $6k Worth of New Lithium Batteries & the $40 Part that Saved Us (Ep.138)
Morale is high as we complete our Panama Canal transit and enter the Pacific Ocean for the very first time! What a feeling as that last lock gate opens and we shoot out into the Pacific Ocean! What a contrast when compared to how we feel a few days later w...
The Joy of Sailing, Our First Sail in a New Ocean! + FISH ON! (Calico Skies Sailing Ep. 139)
Join us as we embark on our very first sail in the Pacific Ocean. We depart from Playita Marina located just outside Panama Canal and set our waypoint for Punta Mala (Bad point), a point with a confluence of strong currents, notoriously rough in high wind...
Ive waited a long time for this..dropping the hook in the PACIFIC for the 1st time (CSS Ep. 140)
The last part of our passage to Isla Parida was super light and we had to motor some but we did manage to eek out some sailing. We experienced our first battery shutdown due to overheating which began the process of installing a blower for our batteries. R...
The Authorities Say We Need to Move the Boat But We Can’t! Our Most Stressful Check in EVER (Ep 141)
Checking into Costa Rica on a good day is a challenge..known for its arduous, bureaucratic check in process and an in person boat inspection for pork of all things, not to mention pricey with fees totaling over $500. However for us the bureaucracy was the ...
Why this life may not be for you 🙃…blasting our car (dinghy) through a 6ft surf break (Ep. 142)
In this weeks episode we set off for our next stop in Costa Rica, the gorgeous Osa Peninsula. This region is known as one of the most bio diverse areas in the entire world. However our alternator has other ideas. We don't know for sure what the issue is bu...
Dirty, Hot and Miserable 🙃.. sailing the MOST Biologically Diverse Place in the World (Ep143 )
Cruising Costa Rica epitomizes the old saying that cruising is full of high, highs and low, lows. Almost a bipolar existence. We are blown away by the beauty of the Osa Peninsula. Covering an area of just 700 square miles on the southern Pacific coast of C...
Swimming in a Croc River?!!!! (Calico Skies Sailing Ep144)
Rosetta Stone Limited time offer: $179 from $299 for the Lifetime Subscription!! https://tryrosettastone.com/calicoskiessailing-1 There's a lot of unknowns in our this lifestyle, most of them inconsequential but some potentially resulting in breakage or w...
The Good, Bad & Ugly of Cruising Life + Why are all the Fish DEAD?? (Calico Skies Sailing Ep.145)
In this life we always say the high are really high and the lows are super low. In this episode we get to experience the whole range. From beautiful Costa Rican anchorages, boat breakages, and an awful case of red tide destroying large population of fish ...
From Rocky Anchor Life to Marina BLISS- My first Shower in 96 DAYS 😮 (CS Sailing Ep.146)
This episode begins with a recap of the challenges faced while sailing in Costa Rica. While we loved Costa Rica as a country maybe next we will come back without the boat 🙃. We faced many rolly anchorages, rapidly changing weather conditions, and expens...
After 35,000 miles at sea, this still scares the sh*t out of us! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep.147)
It's late in the season when we finally depart northern Costa Rica bound for Chiapas, Mexico. We hear that the coast of El Salvador & Nicaragua is known to spawn early season hurricanes as well as house intense squall activity. The squalls we encounter...
DON’T TELL MOM What Salty Sailors get up to on Shore Leave!!! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 148)
In this episode we pass time in Chiapas marina, our port of entry into Mexico, during a very stormy season. Though we always have fun with our buddy boats and enjoy the BBQ and pool facilities at the marina, we get prettttyyyy ansy after a few days since C...
Not in Control; The Reason We Question This Life Sometimes (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 149)
One thing we get asked ALL the time is, 'What are your plans?', sometimes less pointedly in the following types of ways: 'When are you leaving?' 'How long will you be there?' 'What will you do at XYZ spot?' 'Can I come visit next week? next month? next yea...
The Pacific aka Peaceful Ocean…just the Wind, Water and Waves (Calico Skies Sailing Ep 150)
After what seemed like an eternity of motoring up the coast of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico we finally treated to some sailing on the Pacific Ocean. The experience was certainly worth the wait! We are surrounded by marine life..whales, dolphins, turtl...
Girls on Dinghies & Sailing Friends ❤️👩🏼❤️👩🏼❤️! (PLUS Delos Circumnavigation Partaayy😋 CSS Ep 151)
We had an absolute blast in Barre de Navidad. The festivities started with Brian of Delos finishing his circumnavigation. We didn't make it off the docks before beers were cracked and the party started. The boys had an absolute blast on the water slide, ma...
Live from Annapolis!
Back on land and it feels so . . . Weird lol. But good!!! . AND we are going LIVE🎙tomorrow to talk allll about it 📣 (plus what we’ve been up to, what are plans are ect). . It’s going down tomorrow at 4pm EST so don’t miss it! We’ll be live he...
No Charts 🗺 No Problem! The Outlandish Things We DO just b/c We Can 😂🤪 (Calico Skies Sailing Ep 152)
We finally pull ourselves away from Marina Barre Navidad after nearly a month there. It's an easy 10 mile run up to Tenacatita. It feels great to finally be back on the hook again. This anchorage has to have the most wildlife we have seen. We start our mor...
It’s Always a Race When 2 Sailboat’s are Headed in the Same Direction!! (Calico Skies Sailing Ep153)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES This episode begins with a morning spent on anchor in a beautiful spot on Mexico's western coast. It's chock full of sea life - Fish jumping e...
Craziest Sailing Drone Shots we Have EVER Gotten!
We were reminiscing about some of the crazy things we have done while out sailing and running this pass between the ocean and the bank in the Bahamas had to be one of them. We were lucky enough to have a friend with a drone up to capture it all. See the f...
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Why our Boat is in Real DANGER Right Now (Calico Skies Sailing Ep154)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES It's not the first time we've been here and we know its a danger but this time there was no way to avoid it. We've just sailed over 2,000 mile...
The BIGGEST Waves We Have Experienced!! #memories #bigwaves
We were reminiscing about some of the crazy things we have done while out sailing and getting caught in this gnarly gale off Cape Hatteras has to be one of them! After safely arriving we checked the history on the nearest weather buoy and it reported 22ft...
Dead in the Water (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 155)
https://us.readly.com/calico Try Readly, with my link you can get 2 months free, which can be canceled at any time We’re sailing offshore off of Mexico’s western coast, headed North towards the mouth of the Sea of Cortez along with our buddy boat Sv O...
Sailing Dream vs Reality: Is This Really What We Came For?? (Ep.156, CSS)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES We finally arrive into the Sea of Cortez after 2,000+ miles of sailing desperate to be back into the swing of cruising; our expectations coul...
Diving W/out Instructors: Just Us, The Black Night, One Sunken Wreck & . . . ?!?!! (CSS, Ep. 157)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES Want more? The next episode is now live on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/posts/when-everything-74898101 This episode opens with a visit to...
When Everything Goes Right It’s a Beautiful Thing (It DOES Happen..!) (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep 158)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES In this episode we begin with a lovely light wind sail in the beautiful Sea of Cortez. We’re sailing just 3 miles north of our current ancho...
Hours of EPIC Sailing (heeled wayyy over) ends in TEARS 😳 (CCS, Ep.159)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES This episode features lots of sailing! After a few weeks in the Sea of Cortez we have gotten into a nice rhythm of finding nice anchorages, ha...