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76 – Birthdays and Beachcombers in Fiji
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76 – Birthdays and Beachcombers in Fiji
Amy's family came to visit us in Fiji! Her mom, Lisa; step-dad, Bob; and uncle Phil joined us for a week of sailing around the Yasawa Group as part of Bob's 60th birthday celebration. We had an absolute blast with them, though I think we've been gone so ...
  • Apr 18, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:29:41
75 – Sailing Across Fiji… With Hitchhikers!
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75 – Sailing Across Fiji… With Hitchhikers!
Amy's family was coming to visit soon, which meant we had to say goodbye to the Lau Group and set sail across Fiji. Usually Amy and I do our passages with just the two of us, but this time, we had some hitchhikers! Alifereti and Koroi, two villagers from...
  • Apr 08, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:13
74 – Our Fijian Cultural Immersion In Fulanga
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74 – Our Fijian Cultural Immersion In Fulanga
For us, when we think of Fijian culture, we always go back to our time in Fulanga. Fulanga is one of the most remote inhabited islands we've ever been to. There's no airport. There's no cruise ships. The only tourists come via sailboat. And it is abso...
  • Mar 28, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:34
73 – A Two Day Sail to Fiji’s Fulanga
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73 – A Two Day Sail to Fiji’s Fulanga
Fulanga here we come! We're sailing through the incredibly remote Lau Group in Fiji and it's about a 140nm sail from Vanua Balavu down to Fulanga at the southern end. We could do that in an overnight sail, but instead we broke things up with a 70nm sail ...
  • Mar 18, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:29:32
All Your Sailing Questions Answered
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All Your Sailing Questions Answered
You asked, we answered! And man were there a lot of questions! We got questions ranging from finances (not a surprise), to relationships and even what size shoe we'd wear on the moon. We did our best to answer them all, so hopefully there's something in...
  • Mar 07, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 02:01:54
Let’s do a Q&A Video!
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Let’s do a Q&A Video!
You've got questions, we've got answers (or at least some amusing ramblings). Want to know Amy's favorite color (it's blue just FYI), why we chose to sail around the world, or more details about something on Starry Horizons? Ask away! While we're out ...
  • Feb 28, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:01:12
72 – Sailing Vanua Balavu’s Inner Lagoon
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72 – Sailing Vanua Balavu’s Inner Lagoon
We weren't quite done yet sailing around Vanua Balavu's Inner Lagoon. After the Oyster Rally cleared out, we sailed over to a beautiful spot called Bavatu Harbour. We had it all to ourselves and found a nice hike up to a stunning lookout back over the Ba...
  • Feb 25, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:05
71 – Fiji’s Bay of Islands: The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
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71 – Fiji’s Bay of Islands: The Most Beautiful Place on Earth
Okay, perhaps that's a bit of hyperbole, but Fiji's Bay of Islands in Vanua Balavu is my pick for the most beautiful place I've ever seen. We had our own private anchorages, were surrounded by unique mushroom rocks, swam in stunningly blue water and even ...
  • Feb 14, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:20:45
70 – We’re Officially A Sailboat Again! (Sailing To Fiji’s Lau Group)
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70 – We’re Officially A Sailboat Again! (Sailing To Fiji’s Lau Group)
With Starry Horizons finally all fixed up with battens in her mainsail again, we had been itching to go do a proper sail! This time it was on a passage to Vanua Balavu in the Lau Group on the eastern side of Fiji. This passage must be timed just right so...
  • Feb 04, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:15:28
69 – How To Pull Off A Mid-Ocean Meet Up
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69 – How To Pull Off A Mid-Ocean Meet Up
What do you do when you're sailing east and your good friends are sailing past you going west? Meet up in the middle of the ocean of course! We couldn't pass up the opportunity to hang out with our good friends Lewis and Alyssa from s/v Quixotic as you n...
  • Jan 24, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:17
68 – Sailing to Fiji with No Mainsail
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68 – Sailing to Fiji with No Mainsail
The time had come to finally say goodbye to Tonga (and all the humpback whales!) and set sail to Fiji. Just one problem... We couldn't use our mainsail! We've mentioned it in prior videos, but we lost the battens overboard during a storm in Neiafu after...
  • Jan 14, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:38
67 – We Witnessed The First Breaths of a Humpback Calf!
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67 – We Witnessed The First Breaths of a Humpback Calf!
We saved the best of Tonga's Ha'apai Group for last as we were the only humans around to witness a newborn humpback calf being helped to the surface by it's mother in order to take it's first breaths. This was an amazing instance of being in the right pla...
  • Jan 03, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:09
66 – Nature is Freaking Lit
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66 – Nature is Freaking Lit
Our Tongan Haapai Group adventure continues as we sail to two new islands: Uoleva and Tatafa. We get to do a bit of racing, a bit of fishing and a bit of exploring. Pretty much everything you want to do in the South Pacific! Along the way we learn up cl...
  • Dec 24, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:18:54
65 – Sailing to Ha’apai: A Humpback Heat Run
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65 – Sailing to Ha’apai: A Humpback Heat Run
The time had come to explore a new part of Tonga: the Ha'apai Group. It's about a 60 mile sail to get there and along the way we got to encounter those magnificiant reason we came back to Tonga: humpback whales! We got to experience several 'heat runs' w...
  • Dec 13, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:50
64 – Adventure on Kenutu Island
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64 – Adventure on Kenutu Island
With Starry Horizons back on the mend, we set out to explore a place of the Vava'u Group of Tonga we had never been before: Kenutu Island. This is one of those absolutely picturesque South Pacific Islands. It's surrounded by a reef, uninhabited with a go...
  • Dec 03, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:56
63 – Tongan Boat Yard Blues
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63 – Tongan Boat Yard Blues
After a long awaited return to Starry Horizons in Tonga, we immediately started re-commissioning her and discovered a serious problem. The anodes on our saildrives had completely disappeared and the saildrives had started corroding! This was something th...
  • Nov 22, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:03
62 – Hawaii: Land of Volcanoes, Beaches and Pearl Harbor
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62 – Hawaii: Land of Volcanoes, Beaches and Pearl Harbor
This video marks a (dare I say: triumphant?!) return to the chronicles of our world travels. After helping safely deliver s/v Julia across the Pacific, we were in no hurry to leave Hawaii, especially since neither of us had ever visited before! We spent ...
  • Nov 12, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:24:09
How We Set Up Our Catamaran to Sail Around The World
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How We Set Up Our Catamaran to Sail Around The World
Over the past three years and 25,000nm, we've turned Starry Horizons, our Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran, into a true blue water sailing boat. We figured it might be helpful to do a walk-through and highlight what features are important and what optio...
  • Nov 01, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:37:56
Sailing Around the World – An Out Chasing Stars Presentation
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Sailing Around the World – An Out Chasing Stars Presentation
You asked for it, and here it is! This is the presentation we gave at my Grandma's retirement community in Bellevue, WA on April 30, 2017, covering the first half of our sailing circumnavigation. We cover a lot of topics from how we got started and the b...
  • Oct 22, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 01:06:51
61 – Sailing S/V Julia Part 4: Our Second Pacific Crossing is Complete!
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61 – Sailing S/V Julia Part 4: Our Second Pacific Crossing is Complete!
S/V Julia sailed into Hilo, Hawaii on June 5th after 15 days at sea to mark the end of our second Pacific Crossing! And fortunately, this part of the passage didn't require me to jump in the ocean! Instead, we got to focus on fishing, sailing (after find...
  • Oct 11, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:16:17
60 – Sailing S/V Julia: Part 3 – We Got Stuck in the Pacific Garbage Patch!
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60 – Sailing S/V Julia: Part 3 – We Got Stuck in the Pacific Garbage Patch!
Our second passage across the Pacific Ocean finally begins! San Francisco Bay gifted us a lovely fog to get started and off we went back out under the Golden Gate Bridge. The first few days at sea were a bit rough as we sailed upwind to avoid some nasty ...
  • Oct 01, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:23
59 – Julia Delivery Part 2: Exploring San Francisco
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59 – Julia Delivery Part 2: Exploring San Francisco
After prepping s/v Julia for the crossing to Hawaii, we got one day to explore San Francisco. And explore we did! Amy set up an itinerary that included riding ferries, cable cars and trolley cars, and took us to Coit Tower, Pier 39, Chinatown for Dim Sum...
  • Sep 20, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:09
58 – Sailing S/V Julia Across the Pacific: Part 1
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58 – Sailing S/V Julia Across the Pacific: Part 1
Apparently, we liked sailing crossing the Pacific Ocean so much, we just had to do it again! This time we hopped on board s/v Julia, a Helia Evolution, to help her owners Tom and Susan learn all about offshore sailing. After tucking Starry Horizons in sa...
  • Sep 10, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:15
57 – Mainsail Rips Are No Fun
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57 – Mainsail Rips Are No Fun
It's always the last day of a passage when things go wrong! We set sail from New Zealand to head back up to Tonga for another South Pacific cruising season. The passage was a bit of a tricky one with strong winds, then light winds and then shifting stron...
  • Aug 30, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:53

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