Join Mike and Taylor on their incredible sailing voyage as they make their way to the awe-inspiring Sand Blast Islands, a remote archipelago off the coast of Panama. Watch their exciting journey unfold as they conquer challenges, meet local communities, an...
In this video episode, we join Mike and Taylor on their sailing journey from Seattle through the Panama Canal and arrive at the mesmerizing San Blas Islands where they engage in a fascinating local tradition - trading. They exchange their old main sail for...
In this episode of Making Our Way, Mike and Taylor from Sailing Via discuss their new main sail upgrade and prepare to embark on a new chapter by navigating through Central America's Atlantic Ocean waters. Watch as they venture out of Shelter Bay Marina.
Join Mike and Taylor from the YouTube channel 'Making Our Way' as they navigate their sailboat via through the famous Panama Canal. Learn about the historical significance of the canal and witness their successful journey from the Pacific Ocean to the Cari...
Three years after leaving Seattle Washington, we have arrived at the gateway to the Atlantic: the Panama Canal -- and it feels absolutely surreal to be here. Join us for some beautiful old town Panama City sights, the delight of flying in crew for the tran...
We may be in some of the most beautiful places on earth and having some amazing highs, but behind the scenes, there's more to the story. Join us as we share some honest words about what life on board has been like lately, we take on the most notorious pass...
Join us for our final cruising days in the Pacific Ocean! In this episode we've got terrible anchorages, squalls, and some seriously epic marine life... including a man-eating crocodile.
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Join us as we pick up the anchor in Costa Rica for the last time and set sail for Panama, Mike lives out his island dreams, we see the clearest waters EVER on Via, and we realize we are perfectly timed to catch a natural event that happens no where else on...
We've spent the last two months traveling through Pacific Costa Rica, and we have just pulled in to our final port of the country. We have lots to do before we go, but before we do, it's time for us to take a much needed break. Join us for wildlife (includ...
Our time in Costa Rica is almost over -- but not before we take an incredible hike through one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet: the Osa Peninsula. Join us for our wildlife galore, storms, sailing, and so. many. RAINBOWS.
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Sailing through the most biodiverse region on the planet means that even a casual trip to the beach becomes a full on nature safari. Join us for some of the highs and lows of cruising Costa Rica, as we struggle through beach landings and get a nighttime sc...
Bats, waterspouts, and ghosts??! Things are getting weird out here! We're making a big jump around the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica, where we are on countless collision courses with big squalls - and we tour the eerie grounds of a definitely haunted isla...
Powerful and unpredictable daily lightning storms, huge tides, tons of dangerous debris in the water, large swell, poorly protected anchorages, sketchy beach landings, and big time expensive: all warnings we heard from sailors about cruising Costa Rica. In...
They say in cruising that the highs are high and the lows are low, and this week, we get our most extreme taste of this intense duality when we hit a storm. Join us as we get caught in the worst conditions we'd ever experienced, and then dive with a leopar...
We sailed to Costa Rica! It is the most beautiful place we've ever been, but it is also the scariest: intense lightning storms throw down bolts all around us with a fury. Join us for epic scenery, crazy storms, birthday fun, and lots more.
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We are sailing from Mexico to Costa Rica, and after a rough start, things start to look up. Join us as we get the best type of entertainment a sailor can hope for, and then we make landfall in the most stunning anchorage we have EVER seen.
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With our new autopilot installed and Via ready to go, it is time to push off the dock and into a new chapter: leaving Mexico and sailing to a new country with new weather patterns. Come join us for five days at sea where we get a mix of everything: squalls...
Our new autopilot has arrived! And every single piece of it presents a problem to address, parts to modify, and pieces to customize, making this our most complex, involved, biggest boat project we've taken on in 3 years living aboard.
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The bad news is our plans got remixed and we're stuck on a dock in Chiapas, but the good news is we find plenty of ways to kill the time. Join us for a little of everything: boat work, waterfalls, forests, and taste of the local history in southern Mexico....
We are halfway through our passage across the notoriously dangerous and unpredictable Bay of Tehuantepec in southern Pacific Mexico. Day one brought equipment failure and hitting hidden fishing lines, and day two forces us into an expensive decision. Ah, b...
After some truly spectacular weeks in Oaxaca, it is time to prepare Via for crossing the most notorious stretch of water in all of Pacific Mexico: the Bay of Tehuantepec. With winds that regularly reach gale and hurricane force, timing is everything on thi...
This week we're off to do something a little different. We drive high up into the Sierra Madre mountains in Oaxaca and move into our new home for a little while: the cabin in the clouds. Join us for rainforests, coffee, epic views, crackling fires, monster...
After an *incredible* week (did you catch our last episode?!), it's time to switch things up and do something a little different. We rent some wheels and head into the mountains in search of magical hot springs. But first, we need to get Viā safely into a...
After several long passages jumping down the coast of Pacific Mexico, we have finally dropped anchor in some gorgeous cruising grounds. Join us for the best that cruising life has to offer: cooking fresh caught fish on the beach with friends, beautiful sno...
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