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June 7, 2025
Sailing Project Atticus – Page 7
Sailing in Light Winds & Sketchy Waters | Cuba, South Coast | S03E46
After sailing east along the South Coast of Cuba for 2 long and difficult weeks, we are finally two days and 1 sketchy pass away from arriving in the most beautiful island in Cuba, but light winds and shallow waters are going to put our sailing skills to t...
Sailboat Life | Living off the Sea | Sailing Cuba | S03E47
After sailing east for 2 weeks along the Southern Coast of Cuba, we finally arrive at Cayo Campos, the coolest freaking island in Southern Cuba. Jordan explores the mangrove cuts on Little Shit, we stumble upon a HUGE pack of monkeys, we explore a secluded...
Sailing on a Budget | The Reef is Our Grocery Store | S03E48
While sailing Cuba’s Southern coast, we haven’t been able to provision for over a month! Our fridge is almost empty, so we decide to take the difficult route to Cayo Largo (our final destination) to attempt to spearfish a remote reef. On the way we str...
Is Sailing Communist Cuba Worth the Trouble? | S03E49
We arrive in Cayo Largo and discover that finding convenient and affordable drinking water, groceries, and internet access isn’t going to be as easy as we thought. So, we set sail south to Grand Cayman and the first world and say goodbye to the hardships...
This Stingray is REALLY into Me | Sailing Grand Cayman | S03E50
We experience culture shock when we arrive in Grand Cayman after having spent a month sailing and exploring remote Cuba. Jordan busts his head open and Desiree uses our emergency medical kit to stitch him up. We stock up on provisions and take a day off to...
Let’s Meet Up at the United States Sailboat Show | Annapolis 2019
We're flying to the USA in October to guest speak at Cruiser's University and to attend the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis, and we'd LOVE TO MEET YOU! [ GUEST SPEAKING AT LIN PARDEY'S CRUISERS UNIVERSITY CLASS ] Date: Wednesday, October 9 Time...
Sailing the World Without a Lot of Money 💰⛵ | S03E51
What does it take to sail the world without a lot of money? In this episode we meet another cruising couple, Davy and Erica, who, like us, have had to figure out how to find work while sailing. We luck out when they invite us to tag along on a typical work...
Sailing on a Budget | How we make a Living | S03E52
It takes a lot of flexibility and strategic planning to sail the world on a budget. In this episode we decide where to do the boat projects that we need to tackle before crossing the Pacific on the cheap and we go into detail explaining our editing process...
Are we about to be Attacked by PIRATES? | S04E01
We’ve known for a long time that the most dangerous waters for piracy in the Caribbean are through the Nicaraguan banks. Every year we hear accounts of yachts being attacked and boarded by pirates in this area. How can we know that piracy is a real thr...
Sailboat Life: Scratching Below the Surface | S04E02
How does the sailing lifestyle force us to get to know the places we visit? From visa runs, to finding fresh water, to figuring out how to fill up our diesel tanks, as sailors we inevitably end up far off the beaten path of the places we visit. In this epi...
The Realities of Sailing Offshore | S04E03
Since we bought Atticus, we've dreamed of sailing to Panama to transit the Panama Canal and cross the Pacific. We've come a long way since our first fiberglass fix, our first passage, our first storm and our first argument as captain and mate. In this epis...
Sailing Around the World isn’t Always About Sailing | S04E04
We used to think our biggest challenges while sailing around the world would be storms, big waves, and strong winds. But sailing is only half the battle; the other half is maintaining our sanity while doing boat work in less than ideal circumstances and on...
Annapolis Sailboat Show 2019 | Meeting our Sailing Heroes | S04E05
We're at the Annapolis Sailboat Show this year!! Living a life on the water with minimal comforts and extreme challenges might sound unappealing to the average person. But at the United States Sailboat Show in Annapolis, the cruising mindset is the norm a...
Living on a Small Sailboat Sucks… Sometimes | S04E06
Having lived on a 30 foot sailboat for 5 years without hot water, an indoor shower, air conditioning or even headroom for Jordan, we normally aren’t aware of what we’re missing. But after living in the United States for a month, with all of the luxuri...
Maintaining our Sailing Lifestyle | Our Outboard Engine | S04E07
We absolutely love getting off the beaten path, exploring remote islands, and living off the sea. It’s our favorite aspect of the sailing lifestyle. But in order to do this, we need to have an extremely reliable outboard engine. If it breaks down in the ...
This Boat Project Might Save Our Lives | S04E08
You definitely don’t need an engine to sail around the world. We made the decision early on to have a reliable, bullet proof engine because we believe it opens up doors to experiences that we couldn’t have otherwise. It can be hard spending time and m...
Man…this is Hard Work… | S04E09
You don’t need a lot of money to sail around the world. All it really takes is a lot of hard work. But does that mean working long hours with no days off? Or is there another way? In this episode we take you with us through our daily routine while workin...
Sailboat Life | Discovering an EPIC Island | S04E10
PROJECT ATTICUS HOLIDAY WISH LIST: https://amzn.to/2sJAMhn Sailing around the world can be tedious, exhausting, and downright scary. We do it all in search of rare and brief moments of absolute perfection. In this episode, we take a break from boat pro...
Sailboat DIY Can’t We Do Anything Right? | S04E11
Holiday Wish LIst: https://amzn.to/2sJAMhn Sometimes refitting a boat can take waaaay more time and energy than we ever could have planned for. In our minds we might think we're going to accomplish a lot in a week, but in reality, we might get set back by...
Sailors on a Holiday Mission | S04E12
Sailing around the world has it's drawbacks, like being far away from home during the holidays, but it also opens doors to unique experiences that we couldn't have even imagined before leaving home 5 years ago. In this episode we celebrate thanksgiving by ...
‘Tis the Season to be Winning | S04E13
Bocas Marina is hosting a Christmas Boat Light Parade and competition in Bocas Del Toro, Panama and we’re in it to win it! We have two days to design and implement a light scheme, but we start to think maybe we bit off more than we could chew when with l...
Our Biggest Sailboat Project Begins | S04E14
The day has finally come to pull our masts, and we’ve got a LOT of work to do to get Atticus ready. We remove the main and mizzen sails and booms and loosen up our standing rigging. With each cotter pin that we remove we get a little more anxious about ...
Our Sailboat’s Mast is CRACKED! 😲 | S04E15
Crossing the pacific is going to be a massive challenge that involves a lot of risk… Risk that we’re working hard to mitigate. In this episode we talk about our concerns with three cracks that we’ve identified on our main and mizzen masts, we cut of...
Bullet Proofing Our Rig to Sail Across The Pacific Ocean⛵ | S04E16
We’re diving deep into all of those rigging projects that have been nagging us in the back of our minds during heavy weather passages to ensure that our 57 year old, 30 foot sailboat is ready to sail across the Pacific Ocean. This week, we install dynee...
Tough Decisions Refitting Our Sailboat In Panama | S04E17
In this episode we start to have some doubts about our mast crack DIY solutions and spend a lot of time second guessing ourselves. Jordan goes on a wild goose chase in town looking for a high quality paint system to prime and paint our aluminum mast heels....
Sailing Life: Work Hard, Play Hard | S04E18
This week we haul out Atticus in a remote boatyard to get started on some of our largest Pacific Refit boat projects including installing our new mast bases. Before getting stuck in the boatyard for who knows how long, we hop on our friend Collin’s boat ...
Fixing Up Our 57 Year Old Sailboat | S04E19
We’re neck deep in boat projects this week as we strengthen Atticus for the Pacific crossing. We tackle removing and reinstalling the stuffing box and cutlass bearing, cleaning up our spreader tips, reinstalling the shaft and propeller, re-aligning the e...
Just When We Thought Things Were Going Well… | S04E20
After a fourteen day sprint in the boatyard, our energy reserve is dwindling and our patience is tested over and over again after facing multiple setbacks. In this episode we install our new mast bases, the bobstay chainplate, and the mast head with some...
CORONAVIRUS: Our Plans Have Changed A LOT | Atticus Live | Panama
Donate link: https://projectatticus.live/ We will be donating 100% of our donations today to the nonprofit Direct Relief to help provide Personal Protective Equipment to health care providers around the world. https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/coron...
Coronavirus: Preparing to Sail Away from Civilization | S04E21
Panama is starting to lock down and close non-essential businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic. As a result, the Panama Canal has been closed to recreational yachts, leaving us with no option but to postpone our Pacific Crossing until 2021. So, we dec...
Coronavirus: Things are Getting Crazy in Panama | S04E22
Regulations are changing daily in the fight against Coronavirus in Panama. We receive word that our shipping agent will be shut down indefinitely, so we can’t get our air filter. The Panamanian government cracks the whip with the lock-down, limiting shop...
Coronavirus: Stuck on a Boat with Nowhere To Go | S04E23
Panama cracks down even further on it’s lock down measures, making it illegal to move any recreational boat on the caribbean coast. After inquiring further, we realize that we are able to move from the marina to an anchorage not more than 100 yards away ...
Living OFF GRID on a BUDGET Sailboat | S04E24
What unique challenges do we face while attempting to live and sail full time on our 30 foot sailboat? In this episode we answer this question and more as we explain the off grid systems and components of our Allied Seawind 30 sailboat. We dive into sun an...
LOCKDOWN | Relationship Problems on a Sailboat | S04E25
After working so hard to get Atticus ready for the Pacific crossing, we decide to take some days to simply enjoy our lifestyle... BUT our outboard breaks down, we get busted by the local police, and our bad moods culminate in a whopping argument. [ SUPPOR...
Escaping Lockdown on a Sailboat | S04E26
Panama has been very strict with it’s lockdown measures, especially for sailors. Up until now, it has been illegal to move our sailboat without explicit permission from the authorities. Recently we started hearing rumors that boat regulations are changin...