Sailing Pickle Family Archive – Page 3

After reaching the Balearics, we enjoy some fun at anchorage, a huge thunderstorm! Which is a great opportunity to gather some fresh water for our tanks and deal with a dragging boat before collision! And don't forget of course we go exploring and have a f...

Join us this week as we continue to sail the Balearics! we explore Formentera a little more, wave bye, bye to the quiet peaceful anchorages and sail on over to Ibiza for a busy, beautiful, lively anchorage, where we trek to find food and have more fun and ...

I'm so sad!!! My tender died...... a very slow and dragged out death!! We tried (for years) to patch her up and save her but eventually it was to much and she's now gone forever 🥲😂 there wasn't enough sticky glue on the planet which could fix her thi...

This week we sail over some very shady, shallow areas with a little trepidation, visit some cool and beautiful locations on the beautiful island of Ibiza, even making a stop at San Antonio! Me and the kids enjoy some kayaking and cave diving, and obviously...

This week we are anchored in a stunning anchorage with crystal clear waters and a beautiful little bar on the beach, what more can you ask for! We enjoy long walks, and even longer swims, try and master making biodegradable straws from bamboo and finally l...

As requested several times…. Here’s Bears chocolate mug cake recipe, hope you enjoy as much as we did!

After the amazing sail you saw in last weeks episode, this episode we were slightly disheartened at the end of the sail to Mallorca; when the wind died and we tried to start our engines, but it over heated and left us engineless and in the middle of all th...

What a week! We've run out of water and gone thirsty until we find a teeny tiny marina which allow us to go onto their fuel pontoon to buy some water! We spend days hanging around for a complete lunatic man, who strings me along, never leaves me alone, but...

This week we have movement! And not the kind you might imagine, the boat is anchored and staying put for a few days while we do ALOT of moving; kayaking and lots of hiking back and forth to different locations, for food, SIM cards, and finally a waterpark ...

We sail over to Palma and are on the hut for a tender, come and join us as we sort out the logistics of doing that at anchor when we're miles from any chandleries and have no transport! Thank you to our wonderful patrons, you are really helping to make al...

Lots of fun exploring Palma and sailing to fantastic anchorages! Mallorca has quickly become my favourite Balearic Island, with its stunning anchorages and crystal clear waters its enough to make you never wanna leave! Check it out guys its so beautiful! ...

This week we sail to some amazing and stunning anchorages have a complete non working windlass, and have to bodge a bit of rewiring quick sharpish and take advantage of a deserted beautiful Cala with a bit of topless swimming, whilst we're out taking a lit...

What a cool week! We have a decent light wind sail, I just love that quiet and peaceful big sail bellowing out front pulling us along! Then we find a half decent Cala to leave Pickle in while we visit Drach Caves and also while there, we encounter a Meteor...

Lots of fun this week guys, we sail along the coast of Mallorca to a very gorgeous wild anchorage and explore the underwater life in the little Cala, with no one else around but the fish to keep up company! Then it's time to sail on to Menorca and discover...

Sorry this episode is a bit short, the next one definitely makes up for it! We are trekking all around Mahon trying to find passport offices and officials so we can check out of Menorca and the EU as a whole because since Britain left the EU we can now onl...

Well this was a stocker of a few days!!! We set off from Menorca and have a varied sail towards Sardinia when disaster strikes! follow todays episode to find out whether we recover our plummeting drone!?! Join us next week as we finally reach Sardinia. Th...

After an amazing sail, with a few hiccups, we finally drop anchor in the beautiful Sardinia! I nurse my poor old bruises from having to go up the mast while sailing in rocky seas after Chris screws up with the light wind sail, and then we have a fantastic ...

After stepping the mast and fixing our light wind sail problem, we venture inland to a derelict building, with stunning views and steeped in history we have an amazing time exploring! Remember to join us next week as we have a very scary and serious issue...

This episode took some making!!! We decided to share this horrible experience with you in the hope you learn from our mistakes, and to show how crazy sailing life can be. Weather can change so quickly and things can go wrong so easily! Leading up to the da...

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Lots achieved this week! Several big sails with following seas and lovely strong winds! Grocery runs and fun night dives with creepy skin biting bugs! Thank you to our wonderful patrons, you are really helping to make all this possible! Don't forget to po...

Crappy weather is coming, but we can't go into a marina so we find some cool deserted anchorages to hang out in and then slip into Cagliari and hang out on the stinky Fishing boat and sunken wrecks wall, while we manage to get our PCR tests ( the most ridi...

After sorting out our PCR Covid tests, we do a bit of exploring of Cagliari and soak up some of beautiful Sardinian history before we set off for our sail to a whole new continent, Tunisia in Africa here we come! Thank you to our wonderful patrons, you ar...

We finish our sail to Tunisia on a high, with our sails full and a dolphin welcome! After masses of check-in protocol and a night stuck tidied up on the arrivals wall we are finally cleared and free to go and explore Bizerte, and what a fantastic first exp...

From crazy bug infested showers to dealing with corruption and manipulation we have it all this week, but it doesn't stop us enjoying ourselves and getting out there to explore Bizerte, Tunisia, North Africa. Remember if you enjoy what we are doing and ca...

After a lot of officials visiting on our vessel which we couldn't film, we were well instructed that we could NOT leave the marina to sail anywhere else in Tunisia?! This was explained to us that; since the new prime minister has taken over there has been ...

What a great week! We explore Old Town in Bizerte and try not to get lost in the tiny winding streets inside those huge old walls! We make a cool new local friend who shows us around his two beautiful yachts and teaches us a trick or two about fishing and ...

Wow what a brilliant experience! We had so much fun this week, visiting the best fish market in Tunisia then getting a well needed lesson no how to gut and prepare the fish for our very yummy bbq 👍 thanks to our new friend Aziz, what a great guy! Than...

After lots of scrubbing, and using our nifty biodegradable acid, Pickle's looking sparkly and clean and it's time to do some more exploring in Bizerte. Tunisia is turning out to be so much fun! It is chaotic, busy, colourful and brilliant, this week we fin...

This weeks been busy, we get into further negotiations with the marina over pricing for our berth in Bizerte, we go hunting for cool birthday presents for Beau, as well as secretly organising a surprise visit from Beau's sister and Nan to going the Sahara ...

Typical type of week in a marina! We had some crazy winds, thunderstorms and heavy rain, then glorious sunshine, this North African weather is nothing short of dramatic! We tackle some good old boat jobs and the age old problem of finding data in remote or...

Its been a crazy few days! With all these secret celebrations and surprises we are planning for Beaus 13th birthday, it really is a busy few days trying to organise everything, and because some of it is a big secret from Beau it makes trying to organise st...

Its Beau's 13th birthday! We have a teenager on the boat!!! She enjoys a fun day with lots of pressies, her favourite yummy foods and a massive cake... what more could you wish for! We are putting the final things into place for our Sahara trip, for those ...