Our Tampa Dad comes to stay with us and bring us some equipment too. Good on ya Dad!
We sail, we snorkel, we argue and we breakdown....yes a typical day on Freedom and we show Bill first hand. Our motor stops and we have to tow it with the dinghy. Ha, just...
After Tampa Dad left we come back to one of our happy places, the big lagoon at Hollandes Keys.
As we are now in a wave of improvements Plukky had the brilliant idea to do some target practice so we can find out why am I missing a lot of the shots while sp...
After spearing practice on the previous episode Margarida gives it a crack and goes for a hunt and gets a snapper, the hunting couple is ON! I show you our new dyneema lifelines and how to install it.
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This episode has it all except for Margarida. It is sad to see her go but it is for a good purpose, we need some funds for our haulout in Colombia and she is off to work and I am going to try to get some charter work. I think we all know the outcome of tha...
A drug bust close by but where are the drugs? Are they in that kayak being madly paddled by that crazy person. Could be....
I find some more crocodile tracks by drone and go and investigate. While there in the mangroves I find some bush tucker, or what I t...
I start out by setting a fish bait so we can go see crocodiles at night, unfortunately it didn't turn out as one would expect....no no really. Nothing but absence of quality.
I go for a spear and see another big grouper, a wreck and a huge dog snapper swim...
Nature is awesome. An electical storm passes over Freedom with some very close hits. There is lightning everywhere and I am outside to enjoy it.
I am running out of food because of bad weather and no fish caught. After 3 days I have a short spear at the en...
I help out some Gunas with some fuel and they reward me with some fruit, 2 bread fruit a bunch of bananas and some lemons. I have never had bread fruit so I am eager to try it and so are my friends the bees.
We test out the Rocna in weed and it is surprisi...
It starts out a perfect day with not a ripple on the water so I use the opportunity to pretend I have a breakdown and try to steer the boat with the dinghy by myself. Not too hard at all really.
The next day it starts to cloud up and I go for a quick spear...
I show you viewers where exactly I am and how to get around the myriad of reefs. Some friends join me to go to an anchorage in the middle of the Hollandes Group. It is a little tricky to get into but well worth it - don't forget to get the Eric Bauhaus boo...
This episode is an underwater marathon. I show a bit of how I do things with the vlog with finding new reefs and capturing a sunset that never seems to come. It just gives a glimpse into the time it takes to arrange a shot and how much effort it requires -...
So, crazy as it may seem, I go for a spear and see lots of big fish that are too big to shoot but I get onto one that is just right with a bit of a plan that actually works....a first for the vlog something that I thought up actually worked. I have dinner ...
Let’s get back in time when Margarida left Panama and watch her time in Portugal. Did she enjoyed the European summer or went to work to save up to haul out in Colombia ;)
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The Lady Boss is back and she's itching to get in the water to check how's her spearing skills after a 2 months break. We get back in time and do a follow up on our homemade pineapple beer and test with you our best recipe till now!
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We've been breaking down way too much and I've isolated the problem to the main fuel tank, so with the tank low and Margarida being back is time to do the smelly job. Soon after we moved from Cayo Holandes to Cayo Chichime where we found ourselves with the...
This is one is a “slow episode” where we show you in more detail a day in our lives with a bit of rain to spice things a bit.
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I take Margarida to my favourite caves and I lose her when she speeds off into a deep dark cave.... You better watch to find out.
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...and then we go sailing with the Indigenous Gunas. It is a new experience for Margarida and I. We are both amazed at how simple the rig is and the components that make it up.
And then...
What do you do wh...
Since I got back, Peter has been itching to check out the Hollandes wreck. Neptune offered us a glassy see in order to go and explore this small cargo ship that ended up on the reef once again to an engine failure. Unfortunately recurrent event around the ...
We enter a lagoon full of reefs at the right time of day but we can't see into the water because it is too smooth, so up goes the drone to help.
We also do something completely different and visit another cave... And we tune our new dinghy propeller for be...
We get a strange visit in the middle of the night in our lonely lagoon that freaks me out a bit.
I also have a close encounter with a hammerhead shark and I tell a story about my first hammerhead encounter .
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I miss a fish and work out that my spear is shooting left so I conduct a bit of an experiment to work out what I must do to shoot fish with a bent shaft.
And Margarida has some fun feeding sharks. She really is a trooper 🦈
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Margarida wants to go wakeboarding but with the big croc back we go searching for a nice spot where she won't get eaten. I know of just the spot.
Also, a thunderstorm hits us during the afternoon and I watch it like TV. It is an awesome display for me but ...
On this week’s episode we go through the preparation for our upcoming trip to Colombia, where we will be doing maintenance on Freedom!
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It's time to finally leave San Blas, our home for awhile. Its a bittersweet moment but we are excited for what awaits us. Cartagena is 204 miles from us and Margarida is knocked out asleep, a secondary effect of the seasick pills she took, well she’s not...
While we wait for a vacancy on the boatyard we go for a wander through the rainbow streets of Cartagena and the colonial architecture of the city and get entangled in their Caribbean vibe celebrating their independence from the Spanish Empire with a Carniv...
70 days from our last supplies and 46 days of forced exile we were one of the few boats caught out since we had checked out of Cuba and hadn’t arrived in Jamaica before the lockdowns came into effect. With no information and seemingly nowhere to go in th...
The corona virus can hit you in a number of ways...one you can contract the disease and have to suffer and possibly die or it can effect you like it did us...you can be caught out on a boat being kicked out of one country and before you are able to get int...
After a failed attempt to get into the Dominican Republic we are still stuck at sea with no where to go, but our faith is bigger and we try again.
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We have just been kicked out of Haiti now too. So after being kicked out of Cuba 2 weeks ago, finding no refuge in Domincian Republic, Haiti is just the icing on the cake. Where can we go now? It seems hopeless but with some good skills and common sense we...
Our relationship gets to a breaking point. The strain of the past couple of weeks with Margarida's seasickness, lack of sleep and anxiety about where we can sail to be safe is causing grief. There is a solution but it seems they can't be found out in the m...
While sailing we have been caught out by the VIRUS and cannot enter any country. We have to somehow make do until the world becomes normal again. So we set sail for a reef in the middle of nowhere, 272 nautical miles off the coast of Nicaragua. We have no ...
We have to leave Nuevo Cay but we delay it as long as possible in order to get food and stock up. But when we search for another reef it isn't where it is supposed to be on the charts. We have to heave-to and wait for better light but it doesn't look good ...
We discuss how the Corona Virus has affected us - our 70 days exile, where we are right now and future plans.
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Plukky discusses the PROS and CONS of CATAMARAN versus MONOHULLS.
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