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🇫🇷French Escale! (in French, with subtitles) #16
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🇫🇷French Escale! (in French, with subtitles) #16

Life is short: Meet someone on Tinder, Quit your job, Sell your apartment, Buy a boat and go sail the world!!! ——— This week, by popular demand, the episode is in French! (With English subtitles, of course). We make an escale in Bretagne, near Quimper, at Port-la_forêt, where we meet up with m...
  • Aug 07, 2018
  • Language: FR
  • Play Time: 00:12:34
Sailing the tidal waters of Normandy and Northern Brittany #15
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Sailing the tidal waters of Normandy and Northern Brittany #15

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 probably off the roof. We were in Fran...
  • Jul 31, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:54
Sleepless in the English Channel #14
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Sleepless in the English Channel #14

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 planned to make a straight sail down to Europor...
  • Jul 24, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:32
All the things I have tried against seasickness (and what actually works)
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All the things I have tried against seasickness (and what actually works)

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 the answers. If you think that we get somethin...
  • Jul 17, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:18
Getting over my fear of big ships (and naked sailors?) in the Kiel canal #13
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Getting over my fear of big ships (and naked sailors?) in the Kiel canal #13

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 motoring. The perspective of going into locks for th...
  • Jul 10, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:18:05
Two (pseudo) Swedish sailors crash the party at the Kieler Week #12
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Two (pseudo) Swedish sailors crash the party at the Kieler Week #12

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 sail down to the Kiel Fjord to check it out. On th...
  • Jul 03, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:11:14
How we are adjusting to life onboard our sailboat – Part 1: Space #11
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How we are adjusting to life onboard our sailboat – Part 1: Space #11

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 general. I'll make a video to answer o...
  • Jun 26, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:53
Sailing around the World: Day One. #10
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Sailing around the World: Day One. #10

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 for three months. I said yes, and the advent...
  • Jun 13, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:12:29
Saying Goodbye to our lives in Stockholm. #9
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Saying Goodbye to our lives in Stockholm. #9

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 opportunities. Leaving Sweden is also emotional, as Ry...
  • Jun 04, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:15:02
We’re moving on our sailboat. This is how it feels. #8
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We’re moving on our sailboat. This is how it feels. #8

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 reality of what’s coming hit me hard. I started...
  • May 22, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:14:48
My first offshore passage, between Sweden and Scotland. #7
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My first offshore passage, between Sweden and Scotland. #7

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 :) Andy and Mia offer crew space on their boat, Isb...
  • May 15, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:43
What launching our sailboat wrecked. #6 (My nerves. It was my nerves)
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What launching our sailboat wrecked. #6 (My nerves. It was my nerves)

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 before he left for Singapore. I didn’t even know...
  • May 01, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:11:39
Shine little sailboat, shine! #5
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Shine little sailboat, shine! #5

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. Things didn’t start off very well, as I realized...
  • Apr 24, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:10:34
Our most painful boat project yet: installing flexible solar panels. #4
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Our most painful boat project yet: installing flexible solar panels. #4

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 40. It took us six days of working on the boat n...
  • Apr 17, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:49
ANTIFOULING: Who would put hard paint on top of soft paint?! #3
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ANTIFOULING: Who would put hard paint on top of soft paint?! #3

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 and I are getting our sailboat ready for our v...
  • Apr 09, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:10:40
Episode 1: Hi, we are Ryan and Sophie, and we quit our startup jobs to go sail the World.
Ryan & Sophie Sailing

Episode 1: Hi, we are Ryan and Sophie, and we quit our startup jobs to go sail the World.

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 immediately. Unfortunately, 3 months later, Ryan su...
  • Mar 28, 2018
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:10:29
Boat naming ceremony! (I let our first video live, because we all start somewhere) [1]
Ryan & Sophie Sailing

Boat naming ceremony! (I let our first video live, because we all start somewhere) [1]

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 boat a new life, we felt it was appropriate to ...
  • Jul 13, 2017
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:03:11
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