We Changed Our Mind About the Sailboat! (Ep.1)
After two seasons sailing our new Fountaine Pajot catamaran we decided to switch to an Outremer performance catamaran to continue our liveaboard cruising project on a sailboat. We didn't know how we wanted to cruise until we got out there and did it and realized we were on the wrong platform to sail the way we wanted to for a circumnavigation. In this video we share how we got here, the lessons we learned and why we made the change.
⚓ Join us as we learn what it takes to circumnavigate successfully and make the transition to liveaboard cruising.
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Hello! We are Holly and Stephane 🇺🇸🇫🇷
We have made the transition from full-time software professionals from the SF Bay Area to liveaboard sailing explorers who always keep one eye on the weather and our hearts in a song. Our goal is to complete a circumnavigation and we recently transitioned to a performance catamaran and are madly in love with our Outremer 52. We are working with Outremer in France (with the help of Google translate) to launch our boat project and start our journey as sailing vagabonds. While it’s not a race or speedtest, we are doing our first Bluewater crossing this year and we are excited to see AWEN stretch her legs and dance on the water. Join us as we share what we’re learning living without Amazon, (but with Starlink), and attempt this new life of travel and adventure on the ocean. Please be patient with us as we continue to improve our YouTube vlogging skills. Our goal isn’t to make our life a movie, it’s to give back to what others have shared with us, which is why we don’t monetize our channel.
More about us here: https://sailingawen.com/about-us
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Special thanks to:
Nick Hathaway at 45 Degrees sailing for teaching us the 'ropes' on med mooring and so much more. https://www.45degreessailing.com/
Loic Kerbrat from Yacht Tech International for all your help in those early days.
Andy and Mia from #59North for demystifying blue water passages.
https://www.59-north.com/
Delos crew, The O'Kellys and The Wynns for inspiring us from the beginning!
And our kids, our family and our friends for supporting our crazy dreams.
-- Chapters --
00:00 Intro
01:06 Our story
01:54 A serious life moment
02:50 Serious planning
03:34 Checking the boat in La Rochelle, France
03:52 Downsizing
04:07 Start of Covert Castaway
04:14 Building our sailing experience
04:43 Meetup with Saona owners in Italy
05:06 Commissioning
05:17 Covid happened
05:28 Commissioning - part 2
06:08 Casting off - Cruising the Med
06:42 Season 1 summary
06:59 Start of Season 2
07:15 Croatia
08:22 Greece
09:03 Turkey
10:18 Lessons Learned
11:20 Outremer dreams
12:13 Outremer test sail
13:40 For Sale
15:14 Back home
15:23 What's next for us
17:24 Next episode
17:32 Virtual tour
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