As we continue to sail up the coast of Mexico, we let Elle captain the boat for a day for her birthday. So we decide to do a man overboard drill with her, which has mixed results!!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt...
In this episode we continue to sail around Mexico, but have quite a few crew leave for their next adventures, but explain what it is like to live at sea...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has sta...
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This is the story of SV Niniwahuni, a west sail 43, and the family who found themselves 950 nautical miles off the coast of ...
We are about 2000 miles from Mexico, and are officially going from the northern to the southern hemisphere! There will be a line crossing ceremony performed for all 7 polywogs, in front of king Neptune (Colin) where they will be hazed to see if they are wo...
We go to the Miami boat show to meet up with lots of our friends, but also celebrate being on the cover of Latitudes and attitudes magazine! Here we go on a Vela boat with our friend John after meeting up with some fellow Below deck friends in Miami. Big t...
We haul out in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where we get hit with blow after blow of shocking discoveries, including a possible crack in the hull, and a cracked saildrive flange which stops us from going back in the water as planned. The last thing we needed w...
The shipyard period continues as we have the sail drive torn completely apart and siting on the bench, leaving a 1ft hole in the bottom of the boat.We have a cracked flange, which I don't want to just weld as it stops the ocean from pouring into the engine...
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It is our final week in the shipyard in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as we put the engines and sail drives back into the boat, install brand new Bruntons folding propellers, apply Propspeed, light speed, and foul free to our underwater gear, finish the install ...
Hurricane Irma destroyed hundreds of boats, SV parlay being one of them, which sank on her port side and was deemed a constructive total loss. That's when I bought her for $150k at the start of 2018 and proceeded to spend the next couple of years rebuildin...
Bit of a crazy episode this week as Darryl, the owner of precision sails, brings a 24ft dinghy 3000 miles down the coast of North America from Canada to Mexico, to deliver 3 sails to us, and also hang out for our 60 person Patreon meet up in Puerto Vallart...
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Crazy episode this week as we do a 3 day regatta in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico with 60 of our patreons! On the final day we get given a Superyacht from "Seasi...
It was such an amazing week with all of our orders from the states arriving including brand new Highfield dinghy, with tohatsu outboard, all of our new lines from precision sails, Selden electric winch, starlink from FMC GlobalSat, the list goes on! But we...
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As we found a crack in the rigging on our Lagoon 450, we have time to do a proper install of our Starlink Ma...
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This is the final week of boat jobs bef...
Spoiler alert, we made it to French Polynesia. No episode tomorrow so hope you enjoy this love instead. Many things explained in the video.
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We have an extended episode this week as we have so much to get through! First of all we have to remove the entire mast, which we do on our own without a rigger. Then we have to cut out the compression post and get a new one made. This all came about becau...
We have an extended episode this week as Jonas Berg, one of the owners of Selden Masts flies down to Mexico to help us re-rig our lagoon 450 catamaran. The knowledge that this man shares is invaluable, and there is so much to learn from him, hence the long...
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This is a special, longer episode where the owner of Selden masts, Jonas Berg, continues to take us through the step by step guide to replacing all of our standing rigging on our h...
This is the final 72 hours before we set sail across the Pacific Ocean to French Polynesia! Watch as we provision the boat, and also explain a bunch of the safety items that we feel are necessary for a crossing of this magnitude!
SV Parlay is a hurricane ...
Welcome to part 1 of our Pacific crossing series! We finally set sail across the largest ocean in the world from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and sail 3000 miles to the Marquesas islands, in French Poynesia. But we get off to a very rough start for one of the ...
Here is part 2 of our Pacific Crossing series! We push off the shores of San Benedicto island, and everything was going well until we get our spinnaker wrapped around our forestay, right when we get a blocked toilet! It is then smooth sailing for a while u...
Here is part 1 of our pacific crossing series below!
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In this episode we finally make it over the 1000 nautical mile mark as we head almost straight south towards the middle of the equator. We take a moment to go through some ...
Here is the link to Part 1 if you want to start from the beginning!
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This week we enter the dreaded doldrums, where it is just one squall after another for days on end. But we get serious about what it would mean to have to ab...
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This was the moment we left Mexico headed for French Polynesia. Its kinda eerie looking back at this moment because we had no idea what was in store for us...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has ...
A raw and emotional account of the moment that we had been waiting for, for so many years. 2,855 nautical miles, 19 days and 10 hours at sea, we finally arrived in the Marquesas islands. It was the adventure of a lifetime, and that feeling when pulling int...
After sailing 3000 miles across the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to the Marquesas islands, we hear about a secret 200ft waterfall buried deep inside the jungle...
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, which Colin rebuilt with friends and has...
In this episode we decide to go on a hike in French Polynesia, but I get split up from the 3 girls, and decide to let it all hang out as I make my way back towards the boat in the Marquesas islands!
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catamaran, w...
This episode addresses the classic question of which boat is faster, a catamaran or a monohull, between SV Delos and our Lagoon 450 catamaran (or Jamie 465 to be exact). There are obviously too many variables to properly answer this question, but a 450 mi...
In this episode we sail from Raroia atoll to Fakarava, and explain the difficulties with dealing with passes in the atolls, where currents and reefs can be extremely challenging. But in Fakarava we go diving at the "Wall of sharks" appropriately named as w...
Colin at Bravocon 2023 to promote below deck sailing... hanging out with captain glenn, captain Jason, Aesha Scott, Kate Chastain, Alex Propson and more!!
We continue cruising around the Tuamotu islands in French Polynesia, mainly in Fakarava atoll, where we meet some locals who take us spearfishing. But it all turns to custard as Jamie ends up in Hospital.
SV Parlay is a hurricane damaged Lagoon 450 catama...
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