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May 18, 2025
Sailing Parlay Revival – Page 7
Her 1st Time As Captain Ends in Rescue – episode 207
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...
How To Sail The World For Less Than Your Rent! – (Episode 208)
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...
CARGO SHIP RESCUE AFTER MAST COMES CRASHING DOWN
If you would like to give Travis and Shawna a little love, go visit their gofundme page: https://www.gofundme.com/f/nicolet-family This is the story of SV Niniwahuni, a west sail 43, and the family who found themselves 950 nautical miles off the coast of ...
LIVE equator crossing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!!!!
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...
The Fastest Catamaran I Have Ever Been On!! – (Episode 210)
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...
Cracked Saildrive Flange Could Have Sunk The Boat – Shipyard period part 1 (Episode 211)
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...
Foolin’ round with Riley from Sailing La Vagabonde – Shipyard period part 2 (Episode 212)
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...
LIVE CHAT: One hour with Colin and SV Delos!
In this LIVE episode I will talk to Brian and Kazza about what it’s like to live full time on a sailboat! Follow their channel here! https://www.youtube.com/@svdelos
Our Final Week in the SHIPYARD! (Raw And Unfiltered) Part 3 – Episode 213
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 ...
Would You Buy a Sunken Boat For $150k? Because I Did!! – (Episode 214)
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...
Crazy 3000 Mile Trip in a 24ft Dinghy! – (Episode 215)
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...
We Took 60 Patreons out on a Superyacht in Mexico!! – (Episode 216)
For your chance to get in on the next party just click here! https://www.patreon.com/parlayrevival 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...
DEVASTATING NEWS – Our Pacific Crossing May Be Canceled – (Episode 217)
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...
How We Got Unlimited Internet Across the Pacific Ocean! – (Episode 218)
If you would like to inquire about a customized internet package for your boat just contact FMC globalsat here: https://fmcglobalsat.com/maritime/ As we found a crack in the rigging on our Lagoon 450, we have time to do a proper install of our Starlink Ma...
Getting Ready to Cross the BIGGEST OCEAN IN THE WORLD! – (Episode 219)
Inquire about the BVI's festival here, and use code COLIN to let them know you are from Parlay Revival... https://navigare-yachting.com/en/events/other/join-the-odyssey-sailing-festival-in-the-bvi-december-9-16-2023 This is the final week of boat jobs bef...
LIVE from Tahiti with our Patrons 🤙🏻
Spoiler alert, we made it to French Polynesia. No episode tomorrow so hope you enjoy this love instead. Many things explained in the video. You can join us on Patreon and get exclusive content and a chance to come sailing with us click here! https://www....
Our Entire Mast Has To Come Down Because Of This… (Episode 220)
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...
Changing All Our Rigging A Week Before We Cross the Pacific!! – (Episode 221)
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...
A Step By Step Guide to Replacing All Your Rigging!! – (Episode 222)
Watch part 1/3 of the rigging episodes here! https://youtu.be/wNhv9QRU98k 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...
Are We Prepared To Sail Across The Worlds Largest Ocean?? – (Episode 223)
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 ...
3000 mile Pacific Crossing Off To a Shaky Start… (Part 1)
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 ...
Provisioning for our Pacific Crossing!
We are finally setting sail across the Pacific Ocean from Mexico to French Polynesia! Subscribe to follow the adventure!
Sailing across the PACIFIC OCEAN – spinnaker blow out! ( Part 2 )
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...
The Things We Do To SURVIVE in the OPEN OCEAN 😳 (Part 3)
Here is part 1 of our pacific crossing series below! https://youtu.be/DgcYmH9s7Lg 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 ...
Preparing for ABANDON SHIP in the PACIFIC OCEAN – (Part 4)
Here is the link to Part 1 if you want to start from the beginning! https://youtu.be/DgcYmH9s7Lg 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...
Crew humiliated in front of LIVE audience of 150,000 people…… (Part 5/6)
For Annapolis show tickets go here: https://secure.interactiveticketing.com/1.39/a0c9f1/#/select and use code 23PARLAYABS for $5 off every ticket. To vote for us for best YouTube Episode go here: https://youngcruisers.org/awards To inquire about the sai...
Sailing from Mexico to Tahiti… #sailing #pacificocean #parlayrevival #oceancrossing #catamaran
Day 5 of our pacific crossing from Mexico To French Polynesia. Loving every minute of it...
The moment we left Mexico for French Polynesia…
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 ...
WE DID IT, WE SAILED ACROSS THE PACIFIC OCEAN!! – (Episode 6/6)
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...
Finding a secret 200ft waterfall in French Polynesia… (Episode 230)
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...
NO CLOTHES, NO WATER, NO GIRLS, NO WORRIES!! – (Episode 231)
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...
WHO IS FASTER IN A 450 MILE OFFSHORE CHALLENGE? 👀 … (Episode 232)
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...
Diving with hundreds of sharks in the Tuamotu islands 😲 – (Episode 233)
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 MacRae at BRAVOCON 2023!! #parlayrevival
Colin at Bravocon 2023 to promote below deck sailing... hanging out with captain glenn, captain Jason, Aesha Scott, Kate Chastain, Alex Propson and more!!