Guess you'll have to watch to see what we've been searching all year for! ;)
But we can say that we sail with our stay sail for the first time, we frolic and laugh a lot and we eat some coconuts! We also head down to Grenada!
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After a cruisy sail from Carriacou we arrived in St Georges bay in Grenada and set about exploring the town. The next day we got down to work, walking for miles around the town in search of an electric motor that may be able to serve as a replacement in ou...
We sail from St George's in Grenada to Prickly Bay and Adam shows of our (patent pending) boat selfie stick.
When we arrive, we see that it is possibly the busiest anchorage we've ever been to! After finding a small spot to anchor, we head
to the marine ...
We haul the boat out in Carriacou, Grenada and finally get to see the damage that we caused when we hit 'something' in the muddy waters of the lock in Port Charlotte (see EP 3)... at the time, we rose about a foot out of the water and were petrified that w...
As the title would suggest, we make the decision to start tipping up those teak decks. There is a lot of hammering, chiseling and hard work involved!!
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'Does it ever end?!!' - Khiara P
Direct quote from a grumpy Khiara as she spends day after day hammering her thumb while taking up 1 cm pieces of teak decks. Yep, the constant work is starting to get to us a little bit in this episode.
The yard plays a g...
Rain, rain and more rain... that pretty much sums up this episode! After 4 long weeks in the yard with no rest days, the cracks have finally surfaced and Khiara has a bit of a meltdown.
On a more positive note, Adam puts our cutlass bearing back in, we pr...
There's a saying "you're only one broken bolt away from a 3 days ordeal" and in this episode, we break 2... Cue the long and painful process to get these bolts out and finish the jobs we started which was merely just to repack our stuffing box.
After the ...
The teak deck gets faired (aka made smooth and silky) and we put on the first few coats of paint, meanwhile the bolts that had broken the week before arrive!!! But, the joy is short lived when we realise that something is wrong with them.
Thankfully, we g...
In this episode we are finally free of the yard and after saying our goodbyes, we take a quick shakeout sail up to Sandy Island in Carriacou. We notice that the prop shaft and stuffing box is getting quite hot on the way so take a few hours to do some repa...
In this episode we sail from Bequia in St Vincent and the Grenadines to Dominica pit stopping in St Luica to revel in the beauty of the Pitons and Martinique to eat ourselves silly on cheese and french wine! Once we arrive in Dominica we finally are greet...
Rewind back a few days to where we explore the main town of Portsmouth in Domenica, we then get the boat ready for the arrival of Khiara's parents who've come to visit us for Christmas. After a bountiful Christmas (thanks to the parents being couriers of a...
With first time sailors on board we ease Khiara's parents to the sailing life with a beautiful day sail to the Iles de Saintes in Guadeloupe. We explore the island and spend sometime relaxing before sailing back to Dominica and sailing farewell to our visi...
We sail from Domenica to Basse Terre in Guadeloupe learning some sailing lessons along the way, after a few sleepless nights, we move on towards Pidgeon Island.
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After sailing from Basse Terre to Pigeon Island in Guadeloupe, we freedive on the underwater statue of Jacques Cousteau's head. We meet some friendly fellow Australians and have a BBQ on the beach, then join them again for a river walk in Deshaie, on the n...
After sailing north from Pigeon Island in Guadeoupe, we arrive in Deshaie and take a walk to a beautiful sandy beach. On our return we notice that our dinghy is not where it was though! We then make plans to sail to the next island, and fix a bit of the bo...
In this episode, we sail from Guadeloupe to Montserrat, experiencing some strong and smelly winds along the way as we sail past a live volcano of Montserrat. After anchoring in Little Bay, we then explore the island and learn some of the history about the...
After a smooth and calm sail from Montserrat to Nevis (of St Kitts and Nevis) and we head ashore and explore Fort Charles just outside of the capitol of Nevis island, Charleston. We share a few insights into our cheap and cheerful life aboard our sailboat ...
This episode we continue exploring St Kitts and Nevis and venture further throughout the island. We visit an old sugar plantation, then get a bit lost in Golden Rock estate. Finally, on our way back to the boat we spot some wildlife and Adam gets to test h...
In this episode we attempt to sail from St Kitts and Nevis to St Martin. Along the way we discovered we were way out of practise at downwind sailing and had some key pieces missing from our pole setup for 'wing and wing'.
After a failed experiment and a p...
After arriving in St Martin and collecting our new Lofrans Tigres windlass we eagerly set about installing it. We had a few challenges during and after the installation.
To celebrate and to test our new windlass, we took our good friends Kenny and Mika ou...
When the strong winds stop in Marigot Bay, St Martin, the neighbourhood comes out to play in the beautiful blue water! We take a break from the boat work and enjoy a good swim and dive.
After discussing and deciding on our future plans however, we know we...
With a lot happening this episode, we start with enjoying the festivities at the 2019 St Maarten Heineken Regatta, watching the display of epic racing boats. The next day we bag a bargain at a local swap meet.
The following day, Adam gets stuck into repair...
In this episode, we focus on getting prepared for an ocean crossing by upgrading our rigging, picking up some goodies to be able to communicate at sea and being safe at sea with a life raft recertification and a new epirb!
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In this episode of Sailing Millennial Falcon, we set sail after a long time of doing boat work in St Martin. Our plan was to head to St Barts however within our first hour of sailing, and 6 weeks out of practice, it wasn't coming together and pulled into t...
We sail to the private Island of Ile Fourchue in St Barts to spend a few days of hiking, trialling our KEEN hiking shoes and snorkelling in the caribbean blue waters.
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We sail from Ile Fourchue and head to Anse de Columbier in the north of St Barths, a hidden beach that is only accessible by boat and by foot.
After checking out the main town of Gustavia, we spend a morning swimming with turtles and exploring the bay aro...
After sailing back from St Baths, we prepare ourselves and get ready to cross an ocean! We do a mammoth provision, top up on diesel and water, check out the charts and weather, and add a new addition to our crew! We're then ready to set sail.
Our first sto...
We start the episode one day into crossing the Atlantic Ocean to Bermuda which turned out to be a great day of sailing! A couple of days later and the weather takes a turn for the worst as we experience sailing while being surrounded by lightening and then...
After an epic, 800 mile, 7 day ocean crossing from St Martin, we finally arrived in Bermuda! Swapping bikinis and shorts for jackets and jeans took a bit of getting used to but after 9 days at sea we were pretty eager to get to land and explore... flat lan...
Finally the weather started cooperating and we had a good weather window for crossing the Atlantic to Horta in Azores!
After 2 days however, the journey deteriorated BADLY. Everything started falling apart… or OFF as the case may be. This was by far our...
After our disastrous sail we are back in Bermuda and attempting to fix the problems that arose. We found ourselves asking 'What the hell do we do now?!', being stuck on an island at least 4 days sail from anywhere, at the beginning of hurricane season and ...
After a hectic few weeks of boat life, we make the decision to head back down to St Martin in the Caribbean. A calm seems to stalk us though as we get further and further away from Bermuda making for a very long passage!
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About Us
Adam and Khiara are making sailing videos and adventures around the world on our 1981 Tayana Vancouver 42. We plan to sail around the world and make our way back to Australia.
Want more? Join us on Pa...
Music Credits
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About Us
Adam and Khiara are making sailing videos and adventures around the world on our 1981 Tayana Vancouver 42. We plan to sail around the world and make our way back to Australia.
Want more? Join us on Pa...
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