After a packed few weeks of sailing in various parts of the world, our feet are firmly planted back on Millie with plans to get her sailing again.
Firstly though, we needed to address and fix what broke on the boat while we were away. Some strong winds pa...
In our last few days aboard the Beneteau 48 on our sailing trip around the Amalfi Coast we get into some more exploring, checking out the town of Amalfi itself. After a forecast of no wind for a few days, we were pleasantly surprised when we set sail to go...
In last week’s episode we arrived in Italy to spend a week on a sailing charter with friends. The boat was a 2018 48ft Beneteau which was surprisingly roomy with 10 of us piled into it.
We start this episode on our way to visit some of the best sights ...
Last episode we had an unexpected message from a friend inviting us for a week of sailing in Amalfi coast.
We jumped at the chance… then jumped on the plane a few days later!
We travelled for three days on cheap flights and finally arrived in Naples, w...
After wrapping up our sail in Turkey with Kraken, we head to the factory to see how one of the boats are actually made (video to be released soon!)
With only a few days left of our time in Turkey, we then head to the centre of Istanbul and try and immers...
In our final days of sailing on the Kraken 50, we get more comfortable living aboard, including cooking in the galley. With Adam and the team dealing with failing winds above deck, below deck, I prepare a semi successful meal for lunch.
Not wanting to le...
We continue our test sail on the Kraken 50 in the Sea of Marmara, Turkey.
The task of the day is to push the boat to almost it's breaking point and see whether it can handle it! We were obviously happy to oblige and lend a helping hand in sailing it as ha...
In this episode, we start where we left off… the end of day two of our 500 nautical mile test sail of the Kraken 50, in the middle of the Sea of Marmara. In true Mediterranean sailing style, the wind drops out… shortly followed by gusts! We get wallope...
Last episode we were invited by Kraken Yachts to go sailing on the new Kraken 50 for a 500 mile shakedown sail before they handed it off to its new owner.
After waking up in our new digs in Turkey, we make plan on where we are going to sail around the Se...
This week, Adam sat down with Dick Beaumont, the founder and CEO of Kraken Yachts, to talk about about all things sailing and boat design for Bluewater sailboats. This is Part 2 of our interview series with him. Part 1 can be found here: https://youtu.be/Y...
Welcome back to our weekly vlog! In this episode we return to our boat in Ponta Delgada and after settling in for only 2 days we got a phone call... "How quickly could we get to Turkey to sail on a Kraken 50?"
Our answer... tomorrow!
So, we jumped on the ...
This week, Adam sat down with Dick Beaumont, the founder and CEO of Kraken Yachts, to talk about about all things sailing and boat design for Bluewater sailboats. This is Part 1 of our interview series with him. When released, Part 2 will be linked here.
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You may have noted that we’ve been a little off the grid lately, and we explain in this episode why that is the case…
In reality, we were having a sailors crisis… 😂
Well, not so much a crisis as a “what the hell do we do with ourselves now?” ...
In this episode, we sail from Terciera to Sao Miguel in the Azores.
I (Khiara) decided to be captain for the day and as soon as we hoisted a sail, something went wrong!
After dealing with the issue in a very captainly manner, we then sailed the 90 mile str...
After a few weeks in Horta we decided to set off sailing to explore the rest of the islands. Our final stop was ponta Delgada, one of the most eastern and last island of the Azores and 160 mile sail. Rather than do it one go, we decided to stop at Terciera...
We headed to the nearby island of Pico... we had a minor mishap in the morning with our wake up alarm but by 10am we were on our way exploring this unique volcanic island by car.
By afternoon, we'd only just scratched the surface of the island and we knew...
We'd spent over two week's aboard our sailboat sailing towards the Azores. After finally arrived and were allowed to go and explore! I (Khiara) may have had an unknowing bout of cabin fever so when I was free to explore the land, I went a little crazy.
We...
We left you last week having sailed ~800nm of the Atlantic Ocean and this week we pick right back up where we left off!
We went for 2 days without touching the Hydrovane to change course and then Adam took the reigns to make sure we still had a working ru...
After a favourable weather window appeared for crossing the Atlantic, we got down to business and put a hold on exploring Bermuda.
The day arrived and we headed out into beautiful sailing conditions. Despite the fantastic weather, we were both feeling a ...
After our disastrous attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean a few years ago, it started to dawn on us that we were going to try it again… very soon.
We had officially arrived in Bermuda after a 6 days sail from St Martin, with LOTS of leaks, a few broken b...
As we approached Bermuda, the forecast was undecided whether we were going have a complete calm or a storm front come through. As it turns out, it was the later. Knowing how the forecast was scheduled to build, we decide it was worth pushing hard to get to...
Join our journey in 3 days of sailing from St Martin to Bermuda. We have a breakage when trying to shake out a reef but manage to jury rig a solution that seems to hold. The wind starts dropping out on us more and more but it means we can get in a little b...
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In the lead up to leaving we tried to film as much as we could but after a while we just needed to get things DONE! So we have a summary of the week prior to our departure, fixing our bowing mast (that was caused as a result of cutting our new diamond stay...
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