We Flew to Florida to Buy Our Dream Boat...Then Everything Went Wrong| Season 2 Episode 1
Welcome back to Banana Pancakes 🍌🥞
Or if you’re new here… welcome to our beautiful little shit show.
After waiting THREE years, we finally flew to Florida to survey what could become our future floating home — a 2021 Leopard 50 catamaran. This is the exact boat we first stepped on during spring break a year ago… except now it’s listed for almost $300,000 less 😳
What started as an exciting family trip quickly turned into complete travel chaos:
✈️ canceled flights
😵 almost missing our connection
🔥 Steve getting scalding hot water dumped on him mid-flight
😴 a 28-hour travel day with zero sleep
⚓ rushing straight from the airport to the boat survey and sea trial
In this episode, we:
• Tour a stunning Leopard 50 sailing catamaran
• Pull the boat out of the water for a full survey
• Do a sea trial in Fort Lauderdale
• Inspect engines, hulls, props, sails, and systems
• Revisit the dream of full-time liveaboard sailing
• Try to figure out if this is REALLY the boat for our family of 6
This boat has underwater lights, solar, fishing upgrades, rod holders, massive living space, and everything we’ve dreamed about for our next chapter sailing around the world 🌎
But after the survey… things didn’t exactly go as planned.
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👨👩👧👦 family travel vlogs
⚓ catamaran tours
🐟 fishing adventures
🌊 offshore sailing
🏝️ boat life
🚤 Leopard catamarans
🎥 real and raw family adventures
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This is Season 2 of Banana Pancakes, and this time we’re not just sailing… we’re attempting to sail around the world.
SUBSCRIBE and come along for the ride because things are about to get very real.
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Sailing Banana Pancakes
This is the REAL & RAW reality of living on a sailboat off-grid! Episodes come out every Saturday! Steve & Kami had a dream to buy a sailboat and travel the world when we retired. We spent 15 years working multiple jobs, living BELOW our means, saving every penny we could and investing in real-estate. Well the year of Covid hit and we thought, what the hell let's freaking go, kids and all! The first thing Steve said when he walked onto our boat "It smells like freedom!" We completed our first year of sailing, sold our sailboat Banana Pancakes, in hopes of purchasing a newer one. We didn't find the right boat so we headed back to Idaho. It's been 2 years since then and we are once again ready to go, this time for at least 5 years. We are currently boat shopping and plan on setting sail soon for Seson 2 of Banana Pancakes. So smash that SUBSCRIBE button & let's go!
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