Ever wondered what life looks like on the other side of quitting your job to sail around the World? We did too. And then, we took the plunge. Welcome to our channel, where we tell the stories of our sailing voyage, from zero experience to full-time cruising!
We are Ryan and Sophie, an American guy and a French girl who met in Sweden, on a cold night of March 2015. Shortly thereafter, we decided to leave our corporate jobs to live a big sailing adventure around the World together.
We had no experience of sailing at all before we started, and had honestly no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Turns out, with a bit of willpower and work, anything goes. The dream came true on June 5th of 2018, when we finally got to set sail from our home port in Stockholm.
Don't forget to subscribe (it helps us a lot ;)) and check out our website at www.ryanandsophie.com for more sailing-related photos and articles!
Ever wondered what life looks like on the other side of quitting your job to sail around the World? We did too. And then, we took the plunge. Welcome to our channel, where we tell the stories of our sailing voyage, from zero experience to full-time cruising!
We are Ryan and Sophie, an American guy and a French girl who met in Sweden, on a cold night of March 2015. Shortly thereafter, we decided to leave our corporate jobs to live a big sailing adventure around the World together.
We had no experience of sailing at all before we started, and had honestly no idea what we were getting ourselves into. Turns out, with a bit of willpower and work, anything goes. The dream came true on June 5th of 2018, when we finally got to set sail from our home port in Stockholm.
Don’t forget to subscribe (it helps us a lot ;)) and check out our website at www.ryanandsophie.com for more sailing-related photos and articles!
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They say that the happiest days of boat ownership are when you buy your boat and when you sell it. Well, let us tell you: this is wrong! ;)
Read more about Polar Seal at: https://www.ryanandsophie.com/blog/polar-seal-is-for-sale
We are a little sad about...
Join Ryan & Sophie as they experience the annual Blue Angels air show in Annapolis, Maryland. During Commissioning Week, thousands flock to watch the U.S. Navy's precision flight team perform stunning aerial maneuvers above the Chesapeake Bay.
Experience the rewarding process of constructing your own wooden boat from a DIY kit by Chesapeake Lightcraft. This article discusses the necessary skills, tools, space requirements, and time management required for building your own small wooden boat.
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And a special thank you to my friend Tim Wolfer for his help with this ...
Join us as we pray Poseidon to give our sailboat luck after we changed her name! (Bonus renaming tips at the end of the video...)
A year ago, we bought a Beneteau Oceanis 40 from 2007. The boat was named after her late owner, and as we were giving our boa...
Two months to departure!
In this episode, I tell about how we went from being full-time employees to quitting our jobs, buying a sailboat and leaving Stockholm, Sweden, to go sail the world.
Ryan and I met on Tinder in March 2015, and hit it off immedia...
6 weeks to departure!
I knew that becoming a sailboat owner meant that at some point, I would end up with a sanding machine in my hands and a valved safety mask on my face, doing something that I was probably not going to enjoy.
In this episode, Ryan an...
One month until we start our big sailing adventure, and we’re starting to feel the pressure of the schedule!
In this episode, we’re tackling our first big sailboat project: installing 400 Watts of Sunbeam Tough+ solar panels on our Beneteau Oceanis 4...
This week, Ryan is in Singapore for work and I tried to wax the hull of Polar Seal by myself!
Polar Seal hadn’t been waxed in at least 3 years. Her gelcoat started to show some signs of fatigue, in the form of big dark stripes running down the deck.
Th...
But not our boat, thankfully! Got a couple of close calls though....
Anyways, after two months spent working non-stop on Polar Seal, it was time to launch her! The problem was… Ryan was very close to forget mentioning that he had removed the anodes be...
Crossing the North Sea between Marstrand (Sweden) and Orkney (Scotland): Check!
Ryan and I had no offshore sailing experience. Now, I do! Last week, I crossed the North Sea with Andy and Mia from 59 North Sailing on Isbjörn... and without Ryan :)
And...
10 days to the move, we are getting the boat ready for us to move onboard!
I was secretly hoping that Ryan would have put the boat back in order while I was away, sailing across the North Sea. Nope! It had a lot of work left to do…
Coming home, the r...
Every new beginning come from new beginnings end!
One week to departure, we are saying goodbye to the life we built here in Sweden. About 10 years ago, Ryan and I left our home countries to come and settle in a land that offered us professional opportuniti...
It took three years. Three years from the day Ryan texted me with that crazy idea: why not quit our jobs, buy a boat and go sail the world, and see where the winds take us!
We had no idea how to sail, knew nothing about boats, and had only been dating fo...
WE ARE TAKING YOUR QUESTIONS!!! Ask us anything you've ever wondered about deciding to quit our jobs to go on a sailing adventure with no prior experience of boats or sailing, how it is to live as a sailing nomad, or anything related to boat life in genera...
It all starts with an Instagram comment we received right before we started sailing towards Kiel, that said “oh, you’ll arrive in Kiel right in time for the Kieler Woche”.
We did not know what the Kiel week was, and we were too busy preparing the sa...
I’m scared of getting close to the big ships. Which is exactly what we are about to do many times over the course of one day, as we enter the Kiel canal.
I was quite excited to take the Kiel canal on our sailboat, even if that meant a full day of motori...
This week, we answer an e-mail we received from Ása and Einar, an Iceland couple who wondered what we have found works against seasickness.
Before we start answering, we really want to make a point that we don’t pretend to be experts, nor to have all ...
We knew the passage between the North Sea and the English Channel would be a challenge: we got our money worth.
We left IJmuiden and set sail towards Cherbourg, knowing that the narrowest and shallowest part of the passage would be done by night.
We pla...
This week, we are in Cherbourg and take the opportunity to visit the biggest nuclear submarine in the world open to the public. Although the submarine was very spacious, we didn't believe cruising the world in it would be so cozy, and the maintenance cost ...
Life is short: Meet someone on Tinder, Quit your job, Sell your apartment, Buy a boat and go sail the world!!!
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This week, by popular demand, the episode is in French! (With English subtitles, of course).
We make an escale in Bretagne, near ...
Life is short: Meet someone on Tinder, Quit your job, Sell your apartment, Buy a boat and go sail the world!!!
This week, I find the answer to a question I asked myself “Why does sailing across the Bay Biscay have such bad reputation?!”
Ahead of o...
Bonus video! We answer most of the questions we've received over the course of the last two months.
We talk about our backgrounds, our boat, the equipment that we use, and answer a few quirky questions we received :)
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When you are one boat, you are sailing. When you are two boats, you are racing. Guys, we are making friends!!!
This week, we make landfall from crossing Biscay in Galicia, and bay-hop from Ria del Barqueiro to Cedeira. We are having a great time with the...
This week, I’m giving you a full tour and a bit of a review of our sailboat: Polar Seal, a Beneteau Oceanis 40, 2 Cabins layout (also called the owner’s version) from 2007. Polar Seal isn't only our boat, she is our home since we became liveaboards in ...
The Northwestern coast of Spain is prone to fog and this week, we head right into it on our way from La Coruña to Islas Cíes.
After a couple of weeks spent away from the oat on a business trip, Ryan is back at the boat and we can finally continue our j...
The Islas CÍes was named by The Guardian “Top 1 of 10 beaches in the World”. We set sail from Muros towards the CÍes Islands to see for ourselves if this beach lives up to the title.
The sail there is gorgeous: 22 knots of downwind, a smooth ride t...
This week, we answer a question we receive from Robert: How much preparation do you do for each passage, and do you have assigned roles onboard?
Ahead of our slightly over 100 nautical miles sail between Cascais near Lisbon in Portugal, and Lagos at the ...
Cooking on a sailboat isn’t very different than cooking in a regular kitchen. I have a fridge, a stove, an oven and a sink. Of course, my “kitchen” (called a galley on a boat) is a little smaller than the kitchen I had in my Stockholm’s apartment. ...
This week, we arrive in Lagos, and have many thing to fix: our autopilot isn’t right and our radar is unusable.
After cruising all along the coast of Portugal in the fog, we also decided to install a hailer on Polar Seal’s mast.
We were so happy to f...
Thank you everyone for your fantastic support! We are amazed everyday at how awesome the community forming around this channel is!!!
We are giving away our AIS receiver to one of you. If you want our old AIS250 receiver, send us an e-mail at ryanandsophi...
You don’t need to live on a boat to experience relationships ups and downs, but it certainly adds its spice to life!
This week, I change the program as Ryan and I take stock on how sailing full time and living on our sailboat has affected our relations...
My favorite parts of having a Youtube channel are 1: YOU guys, who follow our little sailing adventure and the magic that occurs when we get to meet, and 2: Getting to experience something new as a result of those meetings.
When we met one of this channe...
This is Part 2 of a two parts episode, in which we decide to catch and cook an octopus in Culatra, Portugal, in spite of our absolute lack of fishing knowledge or experience.
After last week’s failure to catch our octopus, we try again with a new strat...
From 0 to cruising full-time: Back to where our sailing adventure started!
Three years ago, when Ryan and I had just met on Tinder and he came up with that crazy idea that we should quit our jobs and go sail the world, we had no idea what we were doing....
Thank you so much, everyone, for bearing with us while we were trying to get the Technology Gods on our side 😅
The software I had downloaded to manage the Live session kept crashing when the time came to start the live stream, and we had to come with a...
Happy Salty Thanksgiving!
This year, we have so many things to be thankful for: the possibility that we have to live great adventures on our sailboat, the fact that Ryan and I are sailing the world together, as well as the support that we get from our fr...
Merry Christmas everyone!!! Yes, I almost made my own version of “home alone” this year, and got uncomfortably close to staying behind in Spain right as we were about to fly across the Atlantic to join Ryan’s family for the holidays in Des Moines, I...
Ryan’s podcast with Andy Schell about risk management in aviation applied to sailing:
https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1339636919/how-i-think-about-sailing/s2-6-risk-management-with-ryan-ellison
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/how-i-think-about-sailing...
When I saw the boarding ring for the first time at a chandlery in Cherbourg, I knew I had to get my hands on them and give them a try.
Could those goofy looking glasses really be the “miracle cure” against seasickness? I had to find out…
So ladie...
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