More videos to get your adventure started:
How to go from ZERO to cruising full time: https://youtu.be/dbLmuKBgrZM
Our Beneteau Oceanis 40, pros, cons, and costs: https://youtu.be/vMGW3XEImjI
Transitioning from my corporate life to full-time sailing: htt...
Listen to the podcast version: https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/conversation-with-sophie-darsy-24/id1475177002?i=1000464453785&l=en
Subscribe to Covert Castaway on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/covert-castaway-liveaboard-s...
The whole story of our passage from Tanger to Lanzarote: https://youtu.be/98QHNZDRUWQ
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When we decided to leave Tanger to sail to the Canaries, we knew that we were going to encounter conditions a bit out of our comfort zone. But we were ready, our sailboat, Polar Seal was ready, and our crew was ready as well.
We knew it was going to be b...
In this video, we start in Gibraltar and end up in Tanger, Morocco, after welcoming the crew that will sail with us to the Canaries.
We were not gonna take any crew on any of our passages across the Atlantic, but when friends of ours (who we met through...
Atlantic crossing: 7 weeks to go.
I don't get emotional often, but saying goodbye to our friends, leaving Almerimar (this odd place that we came to love so much) and seeing everyone go on their decks to wave us goodbye brought a few tears to my eyes.
I...
How weather forecasts are made and the different forecast models: https://ryanandsophie.com/how-we-are-able-to-receive-weather-forecasts-even-offshore/
How to get satellite connection with Iridium Go and PredictWind: https://ryanandsophie.com/how-to-get-s...
Follow Polar Seal across the Atlantic! www.ryanandsophie.com/#tracking
In this video, we explain how sailboats have crossed the Atlantic for hundreds of years! We go through Trade Winds (in particular the equatorial trade winds), how they form, why they a...
We’re back!!! And ready to cross the Atlantic (woohooo!)
In this episode, you follow our boat preparation day by day. We start by installing a new autopilot (our new Raymarine Evolution autopilot), haul out Polar Seal to replace some through-hulls and...
We are currently in Cape Verde and a few days away from crossing the Atlantic!
Follow our first ocean crossing live at: www.ryanandsophie.com/#tracking
We will be back with new videos next Tuesday at 4:30PM CET (unless you are a Patron, in which case w...
Crossing the Mediterranean on a sailboat from Malta to Spain: 900 nautical miles in 6 days!
Video of how we dealt with my burn at sea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuxtQO6pqqo&t=168s
We started our crossing from Malta, where we had been spending ...
In this week’s video, we go to Malta!! And the welcome that we get blows our minds, our ears and our hearts.
Although we were going to stay in Grand Harbour, a very nice subscriber let us use his mooring buoy all throughout our stay in the capital of M...
What to expect when you come sail with us? https://ryanandsophie.com/welcome-onboard-what-to-expect-when-you-come-sail-with-us/
In this week’s video, we welcome our first guests onboard, including a fun pair of sisters followed by my little brother and ...
There is a reason why fishing is called fishing, and not “catching”!
For the longest time, Ryan and I thought about how we should get into fishing.
But none of us knows how to fish, and also, blood makes me faint between, which makes me a terrible...
Buongiorno! This week, we finally reach Italy from Corsica under sail, and make landfall in beautiful Sardinia.
Our time in Sardinia is short but sweet. It starts by a Mistral getting us stuck onboard for a few days before we are finally able to leave Po...
We chose to sail to Corsica, because under no circumstances were we going to miss this part of France. I had never been to Corsica, and hadn’t stepped foot in my home country in over a year.
Besides, Ryan was going to teach a one week course in Paris a...
Sailboat tech: How does a marine autopilot work? (Featuring the Raymarine evolution & EV1 sensor) // Ryan’s tech corner #7
In this new episode of Ryan’s tech corner, we explore autopilots.
What exactly is a marine autopilot and how does it work...
After seeing the absolute disaster left behind hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas, Ryan and I decided to give all the proceeds from this video to Lend a Hand Bahamas.
https://www.lendahandbahamas.org/bahamas-hurricane-relief
This may not be much in the gra...
First off, thank you all for the messages of support that we have received since we got back from our sail!
Last week, Ryan and I were crossing the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Almerimar. On the 6th day of our passage, I got injured (not the nice ...
Sailing equipment hits & miss: what we bought, used loved and loved a lot less /Ryan's tech corner #6
This video was voted by our Patrons as the next Ryan's tech Corner they wanted to see!
Down below are links towards the products we loved (some are...
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