Sailing is often about changing plans and take the day as it comes. So our plans on sailing to Cape Verde had to wait a couple of days and instead we sailed to a new island! El Hierro is the smallest of all the main islands in the Canaries. We made a stop ...
How do you manage to stow 3 months of food in a 40 ft sailboat? There's a lot of things to think about when planning a long passage and food is one of the most important. Join us in this episode to find out how we did and to see more of our DIY projects!
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South Georgia Island, the place where Penguins, Elephant seals, Reindeers and Fur seals all live together and have even take over the old whaling stations. It was so amazing! In the last part of Sailing Antarctica Mini Series we enjoy the wildlife and chec...
The preparations for the Atlantic crossing are on-going i San Sebastián, La Gomera and we make a DIY anchor chain box and Q-flag. The boat neighbors give us a piece of the 95 kg Tuna they caught and we make sushi on board. In the Antarctica Sailing Mini S...
This is part one of three special kind of episodes, the Sailing Antarctica Mini Series! We take you back to 2006 when Johan had extremely long beard and sailed from Mar del Plata to Antarctica and South Georgia Island. But first we show you our last days i...
Join us as we explore the volcanic island Tenerife by land and sea! The volcano Teide is Spain's highest mountain and walking around in the crater feels like walking on another planet. Johan's parents are visiting us and we move the boat from the very roly...
Did you know that there is a whistle language?! El Silbo, is the whistle language of La Gomera and origin from the native Canarians. Since 1999, all children learn it in the school and the language is acknowledged by UNESCO. Our last days on the island are...
Welcome to the beautiful volcanic island of La Gomera! This is one of the smaller Canarian Islands and we absolutely love it. A big part of the island is covered by the national park Garajonay and we explore the island together with Malin's family who is v...
We experience our windiest sail so far! 30-35 knots steady on the beam between Gran Canaria and La Gomera and we are being tested by the acceleration zones. As we are closing in on La Gomera the wind is gusting to 40 knots, and we have to enter the marina ...
In episode 18 we continue the work on RAN in Las Palmas. We construct a new anchor roller for our new 25 kg anchor and build a new box for the plotter and the instruments. We celebrate the summer solstice (Fiesta de San Juan) together with thousands of Gra...
In this episode we're in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, to work on the boat. This marina is famous for being a hub point for blue water sailors preparing to cross the Atlantic and since that's our case we try to get as much things done as we can. We also spend ...
Madeira is often called the floating garden and the pearl of the Atlantic and we can understand why. It is so beautiful! Join us as we explore the island and get some very nice drone footage. After a couple of days we sail on to Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. W...
In this episode we explore the island of Porto Santo by scooter, boat and foot. We also leave our mark on it before we sail to Madeira. We spend a couple of days at anchor outside the beautiful beach of Porto Santo. Just relaxing and having a great time in...
How is life aboard a sailboat during an offshore passage? In episode 14 you get to follow us along as we leave Lisbon for a 490 Nm downwind sail to the Madeira archipelago in the Atlantic. The voyage takes us 75 hours and we arrive to the wonderful island ...
One of the songs that we used in this video has been blocked worldwide and we had to delete it to make the video available again. They also deleted the voice overs and our talking so sorry for no sound in the first few minutes (00:00-03:16).
We prepare RA...
We finally arrive to Cascais outside Lisbon! Joaquim, one of our Patrons takes us on a ride through the surroundings and up to the natural park of Sintra. After some days in Cascais we move the boat to Lisbon to get some city life.
We are a Swedish coupl...
In this episode we make the new installments on the rig so we can continue our sail to Portugal. While waiting for our sails to be ready, we make a visit to Vigo, Galicia's biggest city. Johan finish the installments on the mast and when everything is read...
We broke the boom! First major setback but probably not the last. In this episode we spend a couple of days in Camariñas in Galicia, Spain and then we sail towards Lisbon, Portugal but don't get very far. We broach with the boat outside Cape Finisterre an...
In this episode we are in La Coruña, Spain. During our two week stay we get to explore the city. We also get our gennaker sail set up on our new furler and hoist it for the first time. We then continue our sail south and sail along the coast of death (Co...
It is time to cross the Bay of Biscay! But first we sail from Guernsey to Camaret Sur Mer in Brittany, France. During our three day stay we explore the natural park around Camaret Sur Mer and prepare for the crossing. On the Bay of Biscay we meet a lot of ...
Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands and is situated 43 Nm from Cherbourg, France. We leave Cherbourg after 24 hours and arrive in St. Peter Port on Guernsey in the afternoon. The first marina is too shallow and RAN is standing aground every six hours. A...
In episode 6 there is a ”meeting the crew” where we talk about our prior sailing experience and show some footage from Johan’s sail expedition to the Antarctica and South Georgia Island. After a week in Dieppe in Normandy, France we continue to sail ...
Join us as we explore The Hague a bit more and prepare for the passage to Calais, France. Outside Rotterdam the Dutch Coast Guard contact us and want to ask some questions.The day offers perfect sailing, starting with 20 knots of wind on the beam and then ...
The storms keep coming and we're stuck on Vlieland. Two days later there is finally a gap in the weather and we leave to sail to The Hague in the south part of The Netherlands. We meet heavy rain, winds of 25 knots gusting to 30 and high and steep waves ou...
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