Hi guys!
FINALLY, we are back and we are SO stoked to be reunited with Polar Seal! (we're also still jetlagged and dealing with a massive mess onboard, but hey, feels good to be home!)
To start this season, we will go live this Sunday (Sunday the 10th o...
The video about Marky’s 1974 32ft MacWester Wight ketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM5iRHDEXPM
The video about our 2007 Beneteau Oceanis 40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMGW3XEImjI
Follow SV Tengah on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/svt...
The video about Marky’s 1974 32ft MacWester Wight ketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM5iRHDEXPM
The complete tour of Polar Seal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxqKYydlxd0
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This is the second part of our mini series on the cost of cruising...
The number one question that we get asked is "how much does it cost the sail the World?". The same way that living in a house or an apartment, the cost of cruising depends on many factors, which of one major: the very boat that you sail.
In this 3 parts m...
Do you give lithium batteries a try ahead of the new sailing season? We couldn’t just talk about Ryan’s company without giving you guys a discount code!
Go to www.dakotalithium.com and use code ryanandsophie for a 10% discount on your order (valid un...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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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...
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