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Touring Barcelona Spain. Sant Pau. Architectural beauty on what use to be a hospital campus
Ep97. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we attempt to walk up and buy tickets at the gate to the renowned Gaudi designed cathedral, De La Sagrada Familia. Without a doubt the biggest attraction in Barcelona. How silly are we? Even in the off seaso...
The one thing you MUST SEE in Barcelona Spain. De La Sagrada Familia. Massive Cathedral by Gaudi
Ep98. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue to explore Barcelona. If you only have time to see one thing in Barcelona Spain, it has to be De La Sagrada Familia. It is massive, it is breathtaking and is a wonder of architecture, especially con...
Exploring things to do in Barcelona Spain. Beach and Aquarium. Ep99.
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue exploring things to do in Barcelona before we move on to Valencia Spain. We take the subway from our Airbnb to the waterfront where we check our Barceloneta Beach, the waterfront and the Aquarium.
Taking a train to Valencia Spain. Checking out the Beach and a Professional Soccer Game. Ep100.
Ep100. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take a train from Barcelona to Valencia Spain. Check into a new AirBnB. Then go check out the Beach to compare it to the Barcelona Beach. We decide to take in a Professional Soccer game, even though neith...
🔴 Live episode. What was the 3 week Transatlantic passage like on a 50’ Catamaran. Q&A
🔴 Live episode. What was the 3 week Transatlantic passage like on a 50’ Catamaran. Janice will say if she would be interested in doing a similar long passage when we one day live on a Catamaran. There will be a Q&A at the end so attend live to...
Exploring Valencia Spain. Old World Charm of the inner walled city. Ep101
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue to explore Valencia Spain. We take in the old world charm of the inner walled city. While most of Valencia has a more modern style of architecture, the old walled city has the historic and beautiful buil...
Valencia Aquarium. The best Aquarium I have ever seen. Ep102
Ep102. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we spend our final day in Valencia Spain by visiting the Aquarium. It was by far the best Aquarium I have ever seen. Far better than the one in Barcelona Spain. The only aquarium that I recall being almost a...
Sailing across the Atlantic. Trailer. What’s coming up.
This is a look ahead at the multi-part series coming up on the Cruising Off Duty channel showing the 3-week sailing passage from Las Palmas in the Gran Canaria Islands across the Atlantic to the Caribbean Island of St Lucia.
Trans-Atlantic Sailing Voyage (#1). Getting to the Catamaran and getting a Tour.
Ep103 (But #1 of Atlantic Crossing Series). In this Episode of Cruising Off Duty, we have the first of what will be a many episode series covering our Trans-Atlantic Sailing Voyage. In this first episode, we travel from Valencia Spain to Las Palmas in th...
Trans-Atlantic Sailing Voyage (#2). Preparing for the passage. Ep104
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I show you my first full day in Las Palmas in the Spanish Islands of Gran Canaria. This is the main island that most Sailors who are planning to cross the Atlantic (from East to West) stop at to provision and get prep...
Why did I splurge and get an iMac Pro? Because editing 4K footage on a MacBook was making me Crazy.
Ep105. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I take a break from the Transatlantic Sailing Series to show you my new editing station set up and how I "had to": splurge and get a better computer, a more powerful computer, or risk going crazy waiting for 4K...
Transatlantic Sailing Voyage. #3. The Crossing Begins, with dolphins. Ep106
Ep106. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we head from the harbour of Las Palmas to start our 3 week, 3000 nautical mile transatlantic crossing to St. Lucia in the Caribbean. As a sign of good luck we have Dolphins swimming in front of our Bow within ...
Transatlantic Sailing Passage #4. Hard to Live and Sleep on a Moving Sailboat? Ep107
Ep107 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. I am taking you along with me in this VLOG style episode. I will show you what it was like to live, and more importantly try to sleep, on a sailboat that n...
Transatlantic Sailing Passage #5. Sailing at 17 knots. Immersive sights and sounds of the passage
Ep108 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. I am taking you along with me in this VLOG style episode. I recorded all the Cinematic clips with a Stereo Shotgun microphone so in this episode I will not...
Transatlantic Sailing Passage #6. 1/3 across. Highlights. Is the Passage meeting my expectations?
Ep109 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. I am taking you along with me in this VLOG style episode. By the end of this episode we are done Day 6 of the passage, which should have been around 1/3 of ...
Transatlantic Passage #7. Get to know the Crew. Distant Shores, Sailing Banyan. Expectations Met?
Ep110. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our Transatlantic Passage Series. We are 1/3 of the way across the Atlantic Ocean. I interview the crew and see what their thoughts are so far. Did they have concerns before starting this 3 week p...
Transatlantic Passage #8. 1000 Miles down. New Crew? Spinnaker Sailing for the first time.
Ep111 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. In this episode we cross the 1000 mile mark and we are boarded by a bird that really wanted to be our new crew. He just wouldn't take no for and answer. T...
T.P. #9. Mavic Pro drone footage of a moving sailboat? Scary trying to land it back onboard!
Ep112 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We really wanted to get some epic drone footage of the Bluewater 50 Catamaran under sail in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Taking off and getting the f...
Transatlantic Passage #10. Dolphins visit and Thanks Giving Dinner at Sea. Ep113
Ep113 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 9 through 12 of the passage. You will see that a bird flies into our boat and hits me in the head. We have a massive pod of dolphins swim a...
Transatlantic Passage #11. Swimming In The Middle Of The Atlantic and Sushi from our 1st Fish.
Ep114 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 13 and 14 of the passage. The wind dies so much we have to drift in the middle of the Ocean. We take this opportunity to swim 800 miles fro...
Transatlantic Passage #12. Catch a Mahi Mahi. A satellite burns up in the night sky for us to see.
Ep115 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 15 to 18 of the passage. We finally get some wind. We catch a Mahi Mahi and we watch a Satellite or other space junk go flaming across the ...
Transatlantic Passage #13. Catch a Wahoo and Land Ho! Arrive in St Lucia after 22 days at sea.
Ep116 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 19 to the end of the passage (Day 22). We catch a Wahoo. We finally get some wind and really see how fast this Catamaran can really sail wh...
Sailing a 50′ Catamaran across the Atlantic and What I Learned. I’m a guest speaker at NSC. Ep117.
I was asked to be a guest speaker at my old sailing club (The Nepean Sailing Club) to talk about my Transatlantic Sailing voyage on a 50' Catamaran. It took 22 days to cross the Ocean and I will show you, through video clips taken from the 12 episodes I ...
Going Cruising to get to Scuba Dive 3 different Caribbean Islands. Cayman, Roatan, Belize. Ep118
Ep118. In most episodes of Cruising Off Duty, the "Cruising" refers to cruising on a sailboat but in this episode, we are actually going Cruising on a Cruise Ship. Janice and I love taking cruises to economically get us around to see different islands in...
Scuba Diving at the Grand Cayman Island. Ep119
Ep119. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our series where we use a Cruise Ship as our way to get around the Caribbean and scuba dive at 3 different islands. This is the episode where we take an excursion at the Grand Cayman Island to go Scu...
Roatan. The Best Scuba Diving of our trip! Cruising the Caribbean. Ep120
Ep120. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our series where we use a Cruise Ship to get around the Caribbean to go scuba diving at 3 different islands. This is the episode where we take a Dive excursion at Roatan. We have to say, this is the...
Bad Scuba Experience, Belize. Dive Master leaves me Stranded and lost. Ep121
Ep121. Bad Scuba Experience in Belize. Dive Master leaves me stranded and lost on a dive. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our series where we use a Cruise Ship to get around the Caribbean to go scuba diving at 3 different islands. Thi...
Starting a new channel. Average Tech Fan. Tech reviews and announcements of Future Tech.
Hi, It's Craig with an announcement that I am starting a new channel called, Average Tech Fan. There will also be a new website called www.AverageTechFan.com. In the last 18 months that I have been filming the Cruising Off Duty channel, I have bought A LO...
Cruises. Most Economical & Fun way to explore multiple Caribbean Islands in one vacation? YES!
Ep123. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our series where we use a Cruise Ship to get around the Caribbean to do excursions at each Island we visited. We did scuba diving at 3 different islands. Grand Cayman, Roatan and Belize. This episo...
Sailing Episodes Are Back! 1000 Islands. We explore with a new outboard motor ! Ep124
We are back to episodes showing sailing the 1000 Islands. This episode was from the end of last season. Episodes from the Annapolis Sailboat Show and the TransAtlantic Passage seemed more time sensitive so all of the last third of the 2017 sailing season...
Behind the Scenes. My Video Production and Editing Set-Up (iMac Pro). Sail around the world plans
This is a "Behind The Scenes" video. This type of content will be be sent out to only the Cruising Off Duty Patrons in the future. I decided, this one time, to publish this to the regular viewers a day or so after the Patrons see it because there has bee...
Update: Boat repaired. Better than new? Ready for Sailing Season! We launch May 4th.
Good news! Yesterday we went and saw our boat and it looked awesome! Even better than we expected. Let's hope it warms up soon because we have booked our boat to be launched on May 4th. Here comes sailing season ! ⛵🎉
Sail To The Middle of Lake Ontario. “Snake Island”. If you don’t like snakes, DON’T COME HERE!
Ep125. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we take our son Jake to an Island we have been to before, Main Duck Island. The Island is obviously a misnomer because we never see any Ducks but you can't go 10 feet without seeing a snake. That is the whole...
“Snake Island” Part 2. Exploring abandoned buildings filled with all sorts of critters. Ep126
Ep126. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue Part 2 of the "Snake Island" trip. We take our son Jake to an Island we have been to before, Main Duck Island. The Island is obviously a misnomer because we never see any Ducks but you can't go 10...
Evolution of the Hobby Drone in 2 yrs. Introducing the DJI Tello. Small $99 drone!
We are amazed how the Hobby Drone technology has changed in just a little over 2 years. When I started my Cruising Off Duty channel I was filming with the Yuneec Q500 4K, which was a good drone but was big. My friend Terry then got the Phantom 3 Pro whic...