You may have seen some clips we put out in our Annapolis episode with Heidi and Franny who were looking at catamarans to use as a liveaboard boat. Well we promised a more in depth video following their journey so here it is!
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Sooner or later if you anchor often enough you WILL get your anchor stuck. Whether it's under a rock, or on an piece of junk on the sea bed, if your anchor fluke works its way under something then it can be very difficult to get it out.
If you are anchorin...
Time has come for us to re-rig Fair Isle, luckily we happen to know a top class rigger. Jade is a rigger for the Golden Globe Race, he knows how to make sure a rig can stand up to the rigors of the Southern ocean and he came out to see us in Montenegro.
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This is a tour around a 2013 Hylas 56. It was our favourite boat at Annapolis this year. A bit large for a cruising couple, but it really makes us want to see an old 49 (which had an encapsulated keel) or the new 48.
This is a bit more complicated than a s...
You never quite know what you're going to come across next in Montenegro. Even the weather goes from torrential rain to superb summer like sunshine from day to day.
It's fair to say we're really enjoying being here!
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Sorry there is no episode this week as Judy and I have been away. My father unfortunately passed away so I spent last week in Northern Germany.
The episodes will continue next week, but for this week we have another in our series of boat reviews from Annap...
The Outbound 46 truly earns the title of a go anywhere blue water sailboat. It's made for sailing in a way that many modern 'blue water boats' are not. It will also give you a good degree of comfort as a long term cruising boat and has some great ideas on ...
Getting an anchor stuck when you're having the anchor quite deep and then water isn't clear enough to see the bottom is always a worry. After a couple of days sailing the fantastic Autumn sunshine we have here in Montenegro we go to lift the anchor and fin...
This is the first in our series of boat tours of the best cruising boats at Annapolis 2022.
Perhaps the most impressive boat at Annapolis was the Passport 615, it got a lot of attention but we managed to get on board and have a good look around.
The 615 ...
The Annapolis sailboat show has more boats in the water than any other. It cleverly splits the motorboat show (happens the week before) with the sailboat show so the vendors stay but the boats all change over. It means there's plenty to see and actually th...
We have a little extra video this week, it's a look back at the journey so far. Four years of sailing since we started the YT channel in 2019.
We actually put this together for the Annapolis boat show to have it playing at the booth and to enter the compet...
As well as drones for the air Power Vision also make submersible drones that can be used in the sea.
This is a full test of the Power Ray to see how it performs at sea for filming. It has a 4K camera and two powerful LED lights to help with filming. It als...
Montenegro has got to be one of the most impressive places in the world to sail into. A Fjord worthy of Norway but with better weather!
We visited here for a few weeks last summer and knew we had to come back. This time we are here for the whole winter so ...
Sailing North up the Adriatic from Greece to Montenegro past Albania is a difficult passage. The winds are usually from the North so we decide to make use of a low pressure system coming through which has the potential for some heavy weather, but at least...
It's a packed episode! Sailing in sun, rain, wind - sailing triumphs - sailing disasters. Epic walks - motorbike journeys... And a transit from the Aegean to the Ionian via one of the wonders of the world! This can't be all in one episode!!!
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We recently made a video about stern tying because cruising as we have done for the last two seasons in places like Croatia, Greece and especially Turkey, it is a very necessary skill to have.
It can be a tricky thing to do ( I hope the video helps a bit w...
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It's always an experience crossing the Aegean and this is no exception!
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Great sailing in Greece, great food in the Tavernas and our youngest daughter comes to visit, a good week!
We will be reviewing the Ecoflow system we show at the end of this episode when we have used it and got a feel for how it works. You can checkout ec...
Stern tying is a very useful technique to master. In many parts of the world, due to depth or restricted swinging room, it's the only option. Where we are at the moment in Turkey it's the most common way to anchor.
This video will look at the basic tech...
We cross back from Turkey to Greece, but it's not without it's problems!
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