Sailing Fair Isle Archive – Page 3

We are finally mobile with our own dinghy as our new electric outboard has arrived. It's opened up a whole new world of exploration around Venice. Boat jobs carry on at a pace. The new Bifacial solar panel arrives, it's a big beast to fit! And the weather ...

Being full time live aboard cruisers spending most of our time at anchor we rely on our outboard engine completely. Our petrol engine was not only unreliable, it was noisy, heavy and meant we had to store petrol on board which I don't like doing. So the se...

We asked our Patreons to come up with any questions they wanted to ask, you might be surprised with what they came up with! It's been a fairly disastrous week as my mac has died and lockdown in Italy means I can't get it fixed. This was edited on my extre...

Our friends Simon and Carla on Ocean Fox are putting together a really interesting series on great destinations to sail to called 'Destination Sailing Channel.' They will be available as a podcast as well as on YouTube. They asked us to talk about our expe...

We've been using the Ecoflow Delta now for 18months and it's been a really useful bit of kit to have on board, we are very pleased to have it and will be looking at some other Ecoflow devices soon as we like this one so much, watch this space! We have bee...

We've now been living aboard Fair Isle for 5 years and we're having a reflective look at the good and bad points of life afloat. We are still unable to sail due to restrictions so are taking the opportunity to get our first Covid jab. Fingers crossed we wi...

HAVE A LOOK AT https://youtu.be/OduN1O9ZjNE FOR AN IMPORTANT UPDATE ON THE LED LIGHTING STRIPS Interior lighting in boats is often terrible. Harsh on the eyes, difficult to control and leaving far too many dark corners to loose your glasses in, and with n...

The argument goes like this... 'Charts are old fashioned, unnecessary and difficult to use' ... 'No charts are essential and it's unseaman like to set sail without them, period!' Well I started sailing a good decade before GPS. All my sailing was done wit...

Finally on the move after lockdown and we're in what has to be one of the most beautiful anchorages in the world. PATREON: There is a way to see the current videos with no adds at all before they get released to the public by becoming an honorary member o...

IF YOU"RE THINKING OF CHANGING TO LITHIUM FOR YOUR HOUSE BANK WATCH THIS VIDEO! Following on from the Ecoflow review, this is looking at a more powerful unit from PowerOak. The Bluetti EC200P could be used as a house bank for a small boat and as it comes w...

Leaving Venice & sailing across the Adriatic sea to Croatia we fine we have more than we bargained for and Fair Isle is in trouble. But we are off, finally free to sail and continue on our slow voyage around the world. For those who want the organic e...

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It's not often you get to sail up into a fresh water lake and anchor beneath some of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world. I hope you enjoy watching this episode as much as we enjoyed making it. PLEASE DO SUBSCRIBE - IT COSTS YOU NOTHING AND HELPS U...

This is the full interview from Episode 43 with Manuel and Pinar from Project Manaia. They do great work studying the marine environment aboard their 43 foot yacht 'Independence'. Manuel spent many years working for big NGO's like Greenpeace as a marine ...

Yes we have two Bluetti AC50S solar power stations to give away! We think these solar power stations are really useful on the boat and Bluetti have offered two of them to our viewers completely free! So to have a chance of winning one first make sure you...

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This is and interview with friends of ours who are sailing identical catamarans around the the world and have spent the last two years sailing together in the Med. They were all relatively new to sailing and changed their lives by selling up in Australia, ...

Lots of sailing in this one as we make our way from the magnificent Montenegrin mountains and sail the three day passage past Albania and on to Greece. The playground area of the Greek Ionian around Levkas and Ithika is well known, I haven't sailed there ...

We constantly find things that we find useful in our life aboard so I think it's good for us to share these things with you. This one could be good for us too as it's our first sponsored video. One of the items featured here, Readly, have sponsored us to ...

It's every sailors worst nightmare, being out at sea and taking on water. Added to this it was the first time I had sailed Fair Isle single handed, so made it even more heart stopping! Greece is a great place to sail though and we've had a really good run...

Paul and Nicole keep their beautiful X yacht in the Mediterranean and sail whenever they can. For them this works well (although obviously Covid has been a challenge!) and they feel they get more quality time sailing than having the boat closer to hand in ...

With the Corinth canal closed we have to sail the long way around Greece, It's a rollercoaster ride down the Ionian and around the capes of the Peloponnese, but then you have the Meltemi to contend with! Check out Impavidus here: https://www.youtube.com/...

Regular viewers will know that I've been doing a bit of single handing and having other crew members aboard while Judy is back in Blighty helping out our eldest daughter Emily who is heavily pregnant. Well there's there's lot's of going back and forth fo...

The Meltemi has ben blowing 30 knots for the last two weeks so navigating the Aegean has been a challenge, but it's been a rewarding one. We also have an exciting announcement in this episode about our up-coming meeting with these guys... See the Little Th...

Top quality drinking water is one of the most important things on a cruising boat and we've just changed the way we get ours to a system we really like. This video goes through our reasons for changing and the fitting of the new gear which gives us excell...

We all know there are a lot of YouTube sailing channels out there but I never thought we would be sailing through the Greek islands with six channels all together! It's been a brilliant experience so far, linking up with people who have been to, and filme...

We had a fantastic week sailing around the Greek islands with five other YouTube sailing channels. I hope you find this video as exciting as we found the trip. Do check out the other channels, links here: @seethelittlethings @RiggingDoctor @JoshPostVlo...

If you've been watching the last few episodes of Sailing Fair Isle you'll know that we've been sailing with five other sailing channels in the Aegean. Well this is what happened when we all sat down for a chat! Grab a cup of tea, it's quite long! You wil...

The Meltemi had one last trick up it sleeve and seemed determined to beat us back from any progress North towards our winter base at Cesme. We did make it through, only slightly battered, and are now happily exploring and planning our winter boat jobs. --...

We have made a few of these videos before showing things that we find really useful on a boat and we like doing them because we often get comments with tips for other great items too (thanks Nick Merritt for the Wago tip). This video was sponsored by Surf...

Settling into our winter berth in Cesme, Turkey. There's lots to explore, work to do and things to buy! We've started the boat jobs and found a rather worrying fault... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Fair Isle is now considerably lighter with a whole load of now redundant machinery removed, we will start on filling the gaps with new stuff in the new year! We have had some time to explore as well though and Cesme has some great history and big surprises...

The questions we most often get asked are "What's it like to live on a boat and cruise the world ?" and "How much does it cost?" These are difficult questions which is why we've avoided them for three years! But the time has come. In this video we go thro...