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June 13, 2024
SDA45 Chasing Todd: the Story of a Dark Angelfish 🍷🌊🏝⚓️🐠
Diving shallow waters has its advantages. Shallow water allows more light and brighter colors. The Pimlico Cays in the Exumas are shallow and rocky with plenty of healthy coral, beautiful reef fish and angelfish with attitude. We'll call this beautiful, bi...
Sailing Dark Angel, The Adventure of a Lifetime
We're Lisa & Dave. We love to travel anywhere warm and friendly, to explore, meet new people, see new places, and share what we see. Sailing Dark Angel is our unscripted tale of learning a whole new life. Freedom and adventure on the water, living an a...
SDA46 King Tides at Big Farmers Cay
We skip a beat and add sailing for a finale. Stay tuned to the end for sailing! King tides can cause navigation problems. Your charts will not be accurate, and for us, that meant low tide was lower than low. What's a king tide? Come and find out! What's...
SDA47 Back in Black Point
Deja Vu Beach and Shark Feeding! We finally make it back to Black Point. I love this place. It feels like I've always known it. This time we visit a beach on the ocean side. It's not much for swimming, but the view is stunning. Stopping near Lorraine's to ...
SDA48 What’s Under White Point?
White Point is by far our favourite Exumas anchorage. There's lots of room, beautiful beaches and startlingly clear water. Celebrate our return to White Point with us by exploring the shadows under the waves with us. What will we find under here? Don't fo...
SDA49 Is the GoPro Red Lens Worth It? (for underwater shots)
We compared our GoPro Hero 7 Black with a red lens filter to our GoPro Hero 10 Black with no filter to see what worked better for underwater filming in the shallow, clear blue waters of White Point in the Bahamas. But first we checked to see if spinning ar...
SDA50 Got Power? We Don’t
What does 600 watts of solar, over 900aH of batteries and a 2200W generator get you? Nothing. Our solar doesn't work well, our batteries don't maintain a charge, and now our generator has died! Where do you go for generator repair in the Exumas? Good quest...
SDA51 Major Goodbye
Our last visit to Staniel Cay for the season takes us snorkeling along the Little Majors Cay, paddleboarding and kayaking to a cave on Big Majors Cay. A private little dance party that may, or may not have been alcohol inspired, and the next day we say goo...
SDA52 Is There a Shark in my Bubble Bath?
This time the sharks of Compass Cay come to visit us instead of the other way around. A steady stream of these beautiful creatures comes to the boat to hang out with us. A deeply hung over Lisa makes the hike to Rachel's Bubble Bath on Compass Cay, under p...
A New Day and Annapolis 2022
Today's video is not this week's video. We are pushing our video release day to Wednesday at 10am going forward. We ran out of time for this week due to some very time sensitive boat projects that we'll be showing in upcoming videos, so we need a breather,...
SDA53 Fast Moving Coral
There's so much to see in Pipe Creek, near Compass Cay, the Bahamas, that we spent day after day walking the sandbars and exploring the coral gardens. We had a tough time filtering down hours of video to bring you some of the most beautiful coral we've see...
SDA54 Paddleboards and Thunderstorms
After Compass Cay we leave Shroud Cay, where we counted three thunderstorm cells going through. Then we push on to Allan's Cay for a few days. Some neighbours drop in. We get a short, but very windy storm, and Dark Angel gets her bottom wiped. We explore S...
SDA55 Crash Landing a Perfect Dive
In this episode of Sailing Dark Angel, we take our time and fly the spinnaker to Normans Cay . This time at Normans, we time it just right for diving the plane wreck. Will Dave ever figure out how to rig the spinnaker right the first time? Swimming agains...
SDA56 Water Pump Problems
Being in paradise comes with it's own unique problems. What happens when a part suddenly breaks in a place where you can't even go ashore? Our water pump failed in beautiful Norman's Cay, the Bahamas. Can we fix it? Where can we get a replacement? Come an...
SDA57 Leaving the Exumas
Our time in the Bahamas is running out, so we leave the Exumas on the first leg of the passage to Bimini. Headed for New Providence Island, taking advantage of a short weather window, we have no wind, but some of the calmest, clearest water you've ever see...
SDA58 Storming Off to Bimini
Our time in the Bahamas is running out, so we leave the Exumas on the first leg of the passage to Bimini. Headed for New Providence Island, taking advantage of a short weather window, we have no wind, but some of the calmest, clearest water you've ever see...
2022 Annapolis Sailboat Show YouTube Sailing Channels Pre-Party
Nearly 50 Channels are here this year! We get to reconnect with the friends we made last year, and meet a whole new batch of new friends! Not gonna lie, we're were a bit star-struck by a some of them! Our second US Sailboat Show in Annapolis was a resoundi...
2022 Annapolis Sailboat Show
Behind the scenes at the 2022 Annapolis Sailboat Show. Our 2nd year in Jeff's YouTube Sailing Channels booth is a total blast. New events like the Young Cruisers Academy, International Cruiser Awards hosted by La Vagabonde were done amazingly well and adde...
SDA59 Explore the Shipwreck of the Sapona
In our final big dive of the Bahamas, we explore the skeletal structure we see on the horizon after the rain stops In Bimini. Turns out, it's the shipwreck of a fast ship called Sapona. This magical structure has abundant coral, tons of reef fish, stingray...
SDA60 End of the Season
It's over. We're done. We've checked out. 6 months in the beautiful Bahamas has drawn to a close. We review the things we've learned on our 6 month Bahamas shakedown. You won't believe what's hanging out right under our boat, and what happens right before...
SDA61 New Season, New Mics, New Chain Markers
Season Two starts with us leaving the Bahamas to return to Florida, where we begin boat project season by replacing our faulty mic. In this first project we replace the zip ties marking our anchor chain with silicone chain markers. Ain't nuthin to it. In t...
SDA62 Hydrofoils, Prop Seals and Barbecue
We head down the Florida coast to visit friends, replace yet another prop seal, replace our grilling setup and install a hydrofoil on Imps' outboard engine, to help her get on plane. The prop seal is very bad news. This is going to be an expensive, ongoin...
SDA63 What’s Wrong with our New Main Sail?
We cruise up the Florida coast with a stop at Marineland Marina for dinner with friends, and to close the loop on our starting point as cruisers. Then we grab a mooring ball in St Augustine to finally install our long awaited Precision Sails main sail. Wit...
SDA64 Decals and an Unwelcome Visitor in the Georgia Swamp
In this episode of Sailing Dark Angel we install new cockpit and bow decals, and add the missing halo to our name on the stern. Then we cast off to cruise up the coast toward Savannah, Georgia. A hitchhiker boards in the middle of the night by climbing int...
SDA65 Spinnaker Sailing and Lightning Strikes!
The lightning strikes are no joke on the Herb River near Savannah Georgia. We wait out a huge, unscheduled thunderstorm on our way to Charleston, South Carolina. How many near strikes can you count? We wade through the sea of sticks and branches to get off...
SDA66 Mantus Anchor Hook Repair while Dragging Anchor!
In this episode of Sailing Dark Angel we catch the weather and head north from Charleston, SC, both offshore and up the ICW. We drag anchor in a tight, shallow anchorage, and work our way up the US east coast toward Norfolk, VA Did you see the snake? Navi...
SDA67 Stranded in Norfolk … Remove and Replace Volvo MD2030 Transmission Cable
We cruise up the ICW from Chesapeake toward the Chesapeake Bay, but we get stuck in Norfolk/Portsmouth when the starboard transmission shifter cable breaks. The hour we spent waiting for a railway bridge to open didn't help. Hovering requires a lot of shif...
SDA68 There’s a Hole in the Bottom of my Boat!
We pull out our Airmar tri sensor while in the water! I can’t believe we opened a through-hull below the water line, while we’re in the water! An unscheduled thunderstorm filled our rain catchment, but it also filled our fuel and oil lazarette, so I br...
SDA69 How Many Sailors Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?
In this episode of Sailing Dark Angel, we cruise up the Chesapeake Bay to Annapolis. Dave polishes his stanchion at sea. We discover beautiful anchorages filled with a type of jellyfish called 'nettles'. We fly my favourite sail, our spinnaker! Until our ...
SDA70 Can we Save our Batteries?
In this episode of Sailing Dark Angel, we grudgingly check into a marina for the first time since December 2022. We hope a shore power connection will help us to restore our failing Firefly AGMs. If we can't fix our 8 battery house bank, we'll need new bat...
SDA71 Tight Spaces and Volvo Engines
In this episode of Sailing Dark Angel, Dockmaster Keith helps us trade slips with Seawind 1260 'Butters' in a very tight slip. Keith's instructions and help make it much easier than we anticipated. Afterward it's time to service our Volvo MD2030 29hp, 3cy...
SDA72 How Much Water will a Bilge Pump Pump?
In this episode of sailing dark angel we discover flooding in our starboard bilge. Fixing the power supply isn’t enough to solve the problem. I need another coffee! Get your own 'Dark Angel' coffee mug spoiledbratdesigns.com/product/copy-of-be-nauti-t...
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SDA73 Everything is Better with Bacon
In St Augustine we installed the brand new Precision main sail we had waited months for. It didn’t go well. With the slider cars too small and no battens, we no sooner got her all the way up, when she broke free of the mast. So we called Precision Sails,...
SDA74 Imp Goes Legal! Navisafe Dinghy Lights
Our CL290 Highfield Dinghy "Imp" has been running around without navigation lights. We rarely run at night, and never in the US, but that's going to change so we are adding a Navisafe Dinghy Light kit to her. The kit looks high quality. Let's see if the in...