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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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...
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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Adam and Khiara are making sailing videos and adventures around the world on our 198...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
'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...
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!!
Music Credits
Music from Epidemic Sound
About Us
We (Adam and Khiara) are making sailing videos and ad...
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...
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 ...
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...
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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We have some time to kill as we countdown until the end of hurricane season and we can get sailing again... so we try and build our own sailboat!! Watch to see the results.
We go for a kayak around Hillsborough before heading back to Tyrell Bay to bunker...
In a sailboat far far away, our hero, episode 23, was MIA after an encounter with the Empire of YouTube.
Today marks it's triumphant return to the Rebel Alliance.
(This episode went walkabouts about a month ago from YouTube and we've finally been able to u...
It only took 6 weeks to make this episode!! Sorry about the hold up!!
Following from our run from hurricane Isaac we arrive in the island of Carriacou, Grenada. After checking in to the country we explore our new surroundings as we know we're going to be ...
We sail from the Caribbean island of Saba in the Lesser Antilles in an effort to out run Hurricane Isaac. Our sails our set for Carriacou in Grenada being the first island outside of the hurricane belt.
However as with ALL sailing journeys, the wind rarely...
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