As we continue to sail up towards Costa Rica from Panama, we come across a beautiful private island in the Coiba region.... and just cant help ourselves...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has sta...
We continue to sail around the islands of the Coiba national park, but get in trouble with the coast guard for anchoring where we shouldn't have. We then sail back to Santa Catalina to pick up 2 new crew, Callie from New Zealand, and Sara, who is a private...
This week we have a really interesting experience when a production company comes on board to film a commercial promoting tourism in Panama. They bring 4 boat loads of people and some serious equipment to get the job done, and some of the crew get to "mode...
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The time has come for us to finally sail out of Panama and head north! It has been a grueling 2 years of repairs including bulkhead repairs and suffering lightning damage, but we manage to clear out of Boca Chica, ready to head to Costa Rica!!
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As we finally clear into Costa Rica, we get hit with the reality of it being wet season here! But the girls make the most of a bad situation, as we get settled into Bahia Golfito Marina.
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After clearing in to Costa Rica, we waste no time in setting sail to Matapalo, an epic little surf spot in the southern end of the country. Here we meet Ben, a 14 year old boy who had been surfing with us, who we invited onto the boat to spend the afternoo...
In this episode Colin travels to Los Angeles to do a couple of podcasts with fellow below deck cast members, and also pick up a bunch of spare parts for the boat, as shipping to Costa Rica is ridiculously expensive. When back on the boat, the crew go throu...
This is the story of Craig Wood, the triple amputee who lost both legs and an arm in Afghanistan, and decided not to let his disability stop him from achieving his goal, to sail around the world. If you want to follow him on instagram or Facebook, you can ...
We meet Nike, from the YouTube channel @WhiteSpotPirates where she shows us some of the amazing things she has been doing about plastic pollution in our oceans...
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In this we do a lot of sailing, as we head north up the coast of Costa Rica, but we forget our cruising permit (Zarpe) in Golfito where we checked in! Luckily, SV Delos weren't far behind us, to save us the long sail back to collect it!! We then go explori...
In this episode, my former navy seal business partner Ben shares why and how we went our separate ways as business partners...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has started sailing around the world...
In this episode I make a crazy discovery which has me walking away with over $4k cash! But we then sail to Witches rock, Costa Rica, where one of our crew has a very scary incident in the surf, which was a sturdy reminder for all of us to NEVER underestima...
We have an exciting episode this week as we do something we have never done before on the boat! This got the whole crew excited so we invited everyone around for a big boat party here in Costa Rica....
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran...
Disaster strikes as our buddy boat flips their dinghy in big surf at Ollie's point in Costa Rica. It has a center console, and a 30Hp 4-stroke outboard, so flipping it and getting the motor going again is no easy task... Plus later that evening we go to a ...
A last minute decision means I will have to leave the boat in Costa Rica. So we go for one last sail, and what an extreme sail it was!!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has started sailing around ...
After a last minute decision to go home to New Zealand after being away for 6 years, I finally get to spend some time with friends and family. This 2 part series gives you a sneak peek into my childhood and upbringing!
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Great barrier island is part of New Zealand but lies 60 nautical miles off the coast of Auckland. There is no power grid there so everyone has to either run generators or use some sort of renewable power source...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 4...
We go to the Newport International boat show and invite Daisy Kelliher from Below Deck sailing along with us and end up being in a hilarious popularity contest between Jamie and Daisy about who has more fans than the other!
Thanks to @TotalBoat for organi...
We have been struck by lightning for the second time in 2 years. Costa Rica is renown for its lighting in wet season, and sure enough, 3 boats got struck on this fateful night. The first time we got struck was in Panama 2 wet seasons ago, so the boat has h...
We got struck for the second time in 2 years during wet season in Costa Rica. We lost all navigation equipment and also most of the Victron gear is now toast. But chief engineer Colin Trouble shoots the systems slowly, to get to the bottom of the total dam...
We continue to try troubleshoot the damage from our second lightning strike, but our 2 friends come and distract us from doing our work! Not that we complained because we always feel like its important to have a little fun while working on the boat, but no...
This is the final few days of the lightning damage refit in Costa Rica, as we get ready topsail 2500 miles north to the top end of Mexico, before sailing across the pacific ocean to New Zealand.
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which...
This is the first ever behind the scenes episode of below deck where I interview every cast member about their experiences on the show, and also some of the production team about what its like behind the scenes of below deck sailing. We talk about what it ...
We are going to be part of the @miamiboatshow from Thursday-Saturday this week! We will be at the @raymarine @battlebornbatteries @ultra_marine_anchoring @highfieldboats @selden_mast @velaboatworks @ugowear booths at various times, as well as a 2 hour slot...
The Parlay revival had an awesome time at the Annapolis boat show, and Colin invited his good friend Chef Marcos Spaziani to join in the festivities, so its a little below deck reunion at the boat show!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamara...
In this episode we sail 230 miles into the wind and sea almost the entire length of Costa Rica, with no auto pilot because of the lightning strike!!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has started sa...
It is our final few days in Costa Rica, and all the crew go for one last night out in Coco beach, leaving the captain all alone to be as free as a bird!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has starte...
We FINALLY clear out of Costa Rica and sail up towards Nicaragua, where Colin has a small lot of land tucked away in a small surf town paradise. And as usual the crew have a LOT of fun along the way, including surf, pranks, and rain showers!
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We try something different for Lattitudes and attitudes magazine, but on second thought realize that it was pretty dangerous for the girls...if you want to see the cover shot they ended up choosing go here:
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The crew score some EPIC surf in Nicaragua before setting sail to Honduras, but boredom kicks in and the crew decide to jazz things up a little!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has started sailin...
We sail from Honduras to Mexico on the pacific side, and have a 6 day passage across the infamous Tehunatepec bay, where winds are renown as being the worst in the whole area. Along the way we pick up a line in the propeller in 16,000 ft of water, so the c...
We finally make it to Huatulco, Mexico, and attempt to clear into the country, but are completely oblivious to to the local laws which got us unexpectedly in a spot of bother...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt wi...
As we sailed we sailed north up the pacific coast of Mexico, we came across an injured whale with a line wrapped around its body, so jumped in to try and save it...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends an...
We continue to sail up the coast of Mexico towards Barra de Navidad, where we have to creep into an extremely shallow anchorage. We even put a crew member up the mast to look out for reefs, but it didn't really go to plan...
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