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A Solo Sail across Japan`s Inland Sea – Cruising Beautiful Waterways
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A Solo Sail across Japan`s Inland Sea – Cruising Beautiful Waterways

Having looped the main island of Kyushu, ( about 1500 kms) I thought I might as finish a loop of Shikoku. But first a stop in the delightful Yamaguchi port town of Kaminoseki on the Big Island of Honshu, and enjoy its remarkable hot spring and green grass! To Track Wahine go to www.pacificsolo.co...
  • Jun 13, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:13
Tips for Offshore Sailing – How to Stay Safe
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Tips for Offshore Sailing – How to Stay Safe

Marijke and Jaap Mulder have spent their adult lives largely at sea having extensive passage experience and being long term live-aboards in the Netherlands, New Zealand and Japan. Even when they tour on land they inhabit a camper van, another tiny space. In their early twenties they built a boat,...
  • Jun 05, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:59
Sailing with Dolphins in Japan`s Busy Shipping Lanes
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Sailing with Dolphins in Japan`s Busy Shipping Lanes

This Video is dedicated to my cousin, Mark Robert Crawford who made his final passage a few hours before I passed through the Kanmon straits from the Japan Sea to the Seto Inland sea. It is said that “sailors write their plans in sand at low tide.” I have certainly discovered that to be true. Y...
  • May 26, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:33
How to Install a Line Cutter – a Lesson You Won’t Forget
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How to Install a Line Cutter – a Lesson You Won’t Forget

If I had this when I had my accident, I may not have had my accident. I never want have that experience again when i had and near catastrophic leak because of a damaged Dripless Seal. All because my Propeller got entangled by a fishing net. I am not sponsored by Prop Protector. I will let you k...
  • May 11, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:36
How to Make a TV Show from a Sailboat
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How to Make a TV Show from a Sailboat

Paddleboarding, squid fishing, dolphins, local foods, burial tombs, painting a kite with a 90-year-old kitemaker, beach clean-up with high school students and more were among the things I experience on Iki, a magical island part of Japanese Mythology. This video is just a raw collection of images I...
  • May 06, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:58
Finally – IKI, Japan, Sailing Alone
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Finally – IKI, Japan, Sailing Alone

I returned to my boat in Fukuoka after a few weeks break to sail her to Iki Jima one of the eight islands in Japanese Mythology. Finally, after two previous attempts and locations failed, it looked like things are all set to film the HISTORY CHANNEL pilot for a new series called Dare to Dream. I h...
  • Apr 27, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:57
How I Paid for My Boat – a Quick and Easy Method
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How I Paid for My Boat – a Quick and Easy Method

I`m not rich and had to find a way to pay for my dream. So I ignored the 1000 sub threshold and decided on a different fundraising idea and put together a sponsorship deck. `Because there are many people like me who have a dream but not the personal wealth to realise it, maybe my experience and app...
  • Apr 13, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:08:30
Celebrity Chef Comes to Dinner – You Won’t Believe What They Cooked Up
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Celebrity Chef Comes to Dinner – You Won’t Believe What They Cooked Up

You`ll never guess who came to my house! I am returning to Wahine next week to continue my training voyage around Japan and the last few days i have met up with friends at the Japan International Boat Show, a TV Crew visited our our log house to film a Celebrity Chef, who is also a sailor, co...
  • Apr 04, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:06:47
Cruising Japan: pros and cons #solosailor #japanexpert #giveaway
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Cruising Japan: pros and cons #solosailor #japanexpert #giveaway

Interested in cruising Japan? You won't want to miss hearing what Kirk Patterson has to say. Learning to sail later in life, Kirk sailed solo across the Pacific from Canada to Japan and proceed to be the first foreigner to circumnavigate Japan. He now runs Konpira Consulting www.konpira-co...
  • Mar 26, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:35:28
It’s a live stream BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION? #solosailor #whatsnext?
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It’s a live stream BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION? #solosailor #whatsnext?

Lowell Sheppard of @Pacific Solo will be celebrating his birthday via live stream and answering questions submitted by YOU! Please join me, March 20th, ( 10 am Japan time, for my virtual birthday and third live special. I will be broadcasting from a new secret location, joined by a fellow never-to...
  • Mar 20, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:46:48
It’s a live stream BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION? #solosailor #whatsnext?
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It’s a live stream BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION? #solosailor #whatsnext?

Lowell Sheppard of @Pacific Solo will be celebrating his birthday via live stream and answering questions submitted by YOU! Please join me, March 20th, ( 10 am Japan time, for my virtual birthday and third live special. I will be broadcasting from a new secret location, joined by a fellow never-...
  • Mar 20, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:00:19
Time to Step it up!
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Time to Step it up!

In this episode, I move Wahine to a nearby marina where I will leave her for a few weeks as forward progress is difficult given the extended restrictions. I then dash off to Tokyo to celebrate with a few supporters the one year anniversary leaving Tokyo and then will spend some time with family. ...
  • Mar 08, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:06:12
Will my boat still leak? #solosailor #sailboat
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Will my boat still leak? #solosailor #sailboat

This short video features the dripless seal installation by Yuki san, a real pro, followed by the water test. If you are interesting in knowing how I am paying for this, when I am not a man of means, check out some new videos at These videos are made possible by my Patrons: Trevor Webster, St...
  • Feb 26, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:04:49
Haul Out – What Will the Boat Reveal? #solosailor #boatlife #surprises
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Haul Out – What Will the Boat Reveal? #solosailor #boatlife #surprises

To replace the dripless seal, the boat needs to be out of the water. This gives me an opportunity to inspect the keel following the repair work last Sept, dealing with a crack and a lingering question: does Wahine have a loose keel? But alas even more is revealed. As they say in the boating wo...
  • Feb 19, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:06:36
Getting Towed in Japan! – #solosailor #driplessseal #sailingjapan
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Getting Towed in Japan! – #solosailor #driplessseal #sailingjapan

A few days ahead of schedule, but with a conducive sea state, the engineers decided to go early. The sea was calm but air temperature was frigid. But 6 hours later we arrived at Nishi Fukuoka Marina, where I haven a cradle booked for one week from Feb 14th. The temporary fix of the leak and now I a...
  • Feb 10, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:05:20
Sometimes you just have to wait. #solosailor #islandlife #driplessseal
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Sometimes you just have to wait. #solosailor #islandlife #driplessseal

In trying to be cheerier, I set about cleaning the floorboards and the bilge, while managing the leak which we have slowed to 4 drips per minute. ( about a table spoon a minute). But to move on from a temporary fix I need to resolve three issues 1. Finding the part ( Dripless Seal) which should be...
  • Jan 29, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:09:47
My boat is filling with water! #solosailor #selfdoubt
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My boat is filling with water! #solosailor #selfdoubt

To be disabled at sea was unsettling in itself, but when i discovered my boat had a leak once in harbour, self-doubt flooded in. This is an account of what happened on January 15, 2021. With only a 24 hour notice I had to change plans and rather than a 7 nm passage to the neighbouring island I h...
  • Jan 23, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:31
Accident at sea #solosailor #rescue #japancoastguard
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Accident at sea #solosailor #rescue #japancoastguard

  • Jan 19, 2022
  • Language: JA
  • Play Time: 00:00:58
Surprised Sailor! #solosailor #nagasaki #ghostisland
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Surprised Sailor! #solosailor #nagasaki #ghostisland

I am heading to Goto Islands and wanted to visit and support a small island community who I had heard were trying to revive the island by attracting tourists to view the coal mines and abandoned buildings were once 8000 people lived from 1959 until 200. This would mean I could do the 50 NM voyage ov...
  • Jan 16, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:08:39
Good Samaritans Save Sailor in Trouble (My Shifter Broke!) #solosailor #shifter #reedboat
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Good Samaritans Save Sailor in Trouble (My Shifter Broke!) #solosailor #shifter #reedboat

I don’t know which I love more …. Being in Japan or being part of the sailing community … yesterday morning I threw the lines at Dejima to begin to make my way to Goto when I discovered my shifter would not budge. I was able to secure the boat and immediately phoned my go to guy for things mechanica...
  • Jan 08, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:15:25
Sailing to Nagasaki Part 2 #solosailor #mochitsuki
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Sailing to Nagasaki Part 2 #solosailor #mochitsuki

In this final video of 2021, I attend to an electrical problem on board (back on shore power for the first time in nine months), install new lines, hoist the flags and then cycle around Nagasaki to revisiting places like Martyrs Hill where I have led bicycle pilgrimages to in the past. Also, I was t...
  • Dec 31, 2021
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:11:24
Tis the Season! #solosailor #nevertoolate
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Tis the Season! #solosailor #nevertoolate

I wish all my subscribers, patrons and sponsors a wonderful Holiday Season and meaningful New Year. I have left Wahine in Nagasaki for two weeks to do some end of year work and enjoy Christmas in the family home, a solar powered log house on a hillside out side Nagoya in central Japan. Upon my retu...
  • Dec 24, 2021
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:02:33
Sailing to Nagasaki PART ONE #gunkanjima #sailingjapan #007
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Sailing to Nagasaki PART ONE #gunkanjima #sailingjapan #007

Sailing into Nagasaki! A dream come true. As with other Kyushu ports I had been to before, I had arrived by bicycle. A city rich historically, culturally, and topographically, to arrive by sea is a real treat, particularly given that the city just celebrated the 450th anniversary of the first for...
  • Dec 19, 2021
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:19
Cruising Japan #solosailor #nevertoolate acupuncture treatment
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Cruising Japan #solosailor #nevertoolate acupuncture treatment

It is my second time visiting Akune, Western Kyushu. This time by boat but 21 years ago by bicycle. I am grateful to Kaminota and his family for their kindness. It was my last stop before realizing a dream . . . sailing into Nagasaki. Nagasaki adventures will be in a future episode but for now, I...
  • Dec 13, 2021
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:09:22
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