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...
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...
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.
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. 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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ! ⛵🎉
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...
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...
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...
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I take my sailboat out solo to meet my friends up river at Simcoe Island. If you want to get a lot of use out of your sailboat, then you have to get comfortable taking your sailboat out alone. This is especially true...
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