Sailing Sitka Archive – Page 2

After 6 days sailing offshore, we finally wash up in San Diego! After a slightly wet and bumpy ride down, we enter the port in the pitch black being greeted with fireworks and big city lights! Love what you see? Become a Patreon!! We would love to have yo...

In this episode, we enjoy what San Diego has to offer while doing some last minute fixes to Sitka. After over a week on the hook in the big city, we clear out of the United States to find us sailing towards the land of tacos, margaritas and white sandy bea...

We finally arrive in Ensenada Mexico after a few bumps in the road! While we settle in, we get a not so pleasant surprise from our heated water tank... In the meantime we do some small boat projects, try surfing and eat tacos!!

In this episode, we depart Ensenada in efforts to sail towards Bahia Tortuga. What turned into a 3 day passage made up for lots of time to fish, cook and film! We hope you enjoy this episode and join us next time for footage of our first ever anchorage in ...

In this episode, we have sailed to Bahia Tortuga which is also known as Turtle Bay! Here we stumble upon loads of wildlife surrounding our floating home as well as cultural shocks, dry desert hikes and drone worthy views. This place is magical. Love what ...

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In this episode, we have friendly race with our boat buddies from Gr8 Escape. We lift the anchor and leave Turtle Bay early in efforts to sail towards Ascension Bay (as quickly as possible.) Of course, some things break, the wind dies and shinnanigans are ...

Merry Christmas to all our viewers!! In this episode, we sail towards Ascension Bay and after a couple days of provisioning and exploring, we sail to Punta Abreojos! We hope you enjoy this episode!

Currently cruising Baja California! Follow our adventures for more!

This episode contains it ALL! We sail offshore towards Magdalena Bay here in Mexico to only discover the most beautiful topography we've seen yet! (Yes, we catch it all on the drone!) Along with a beached sailboat, natural mangroves that we explore and som...

In this weeks episode, we say goodbye to our crew member Harry as we sail into Cabo San Lucas. While we were there, we go snorkelling where Kenna gets stung by a jellyfish. We also experience the rolliest anchorage EVER and find ourselves provisioning wate...

In this weeks episode, Jay and I sail just the two of us towards La Paz, Mexico. After the 30 hour passage was completed we ran into a sh*tty situation involving our Raritan Heads.... Not what you want to deal with when entering a new port!

In this weeks episode, Kenna travels back to Canada for Christmas while the Captain is left to do boat work all by his lonesome... Sitka is ready for an oil change and Jay goes through the step-by-step process on how to do it properly! Hope you enjoy!

In this episode, we detect a loose pin in our roller-furler that needs some immediate attention. Jay also cleans up the boat and shows what it is like to live at anchor full-time. Kenna returns from Canada in time for Christmas and we get ready to sail awa...

Hello fellow viewers! Welcome back to another episode of Sailing Sitka! If you are new here, we are happy to have you! In this week's episode, we sail from La Paz to Caleta Partida. We experience an anchorage all to ourselves with @CapturingOurMoments and ...

In this weeks episode, we sail into paradise and experience all it has to offer until our boat has other ideas. While cleaning the hard growth on our hull, Jay notices something that changes our cruising plans entirely! Support us on Patreon for more! pa...

In this weeks episode, we sail back to La Paz from our secluded anchorages. After finding out our prop has been chipped and bent, we start coming up with a plan to address it. In the meantime, we hike and explore what La Paz has to offer up until a weather...

In this weeks episode, we experience something unfortunate and out of our control. While anchored in La Paz, days before sailing to the mainland, a boat drags into us, hitting our port side. We address the situation as best we could and this is what it loo...

Whales in this anchorage are incredible! 🐋

In this weeks episode, we make our way across the Sea of Cortez, from La Paz straight to Mazatlan. What we thought was going to be "smooth sailing" turned into a bumpier ride than anticipated. Nothing some fresh fish and dolphins can't fix!

In this weeks episode, we finalize our Sea of Cortez Crossing with fresh Mahi Mahi, dolphin sightings and moonlit nights. After a rough part one of this two part series, we overcame some building seas which caused some major seasickness and a heeled over b...

In this week, we sailed to Mazatlan and were ready to explore everything it had to offer. This included a popular hike known as El Faro which was a steep climb up to the worlds highest natural lighthouse. It felt so good to work those leg muscles after a 5...

In this weeks episode, we expierence a day out on the water aboard a modern day Hunter Sailboat. If you have been following along with our journey, you know that we own a Cheoylee Offshore 41 which was built in 1976 (an old gal) In this video we take up ou...

In this weeks episode, we explore what's left to explore in Mazatlan. We then pull up the hook after provisioning and sail south towards Puerto Vallarta. During the first part of this sail, Kenna catches a big Mahi Mahi that will feed us on what's left of ...

In this weeks episode, we experience our second rig failure in 4 months-both of which took place offshore. In this episode, we filmed what we could when our gooseneck attachment on our wooden boom critically broke, leaving us without the use of our main sa...

In this weeks episode, we sail into La Cruz Mexico and are pleasantly surprised by how amazing this little town is! Very cruiser friendly and and overall lovey place to drop the hook. We do a couple little projects onboard and Jays mom flys in from Canad...

BOAT TOUR, a 56 ft Blue Water Cruiser. In this weeks episode, we have something new for you! We tour a fully-refitted,1980 Columbia 56' both inside and out! This walk-through has it ALL! For more information about this Sailboat click this link - http://...

Cruising is fixing your boat in exotic places right? In this weeks episode, we diagnose problems with our outboard engine that has been giving us a pain in our rear end for some time now! Cruising full time has its advantages but it can definitely have its...

We experience the highs and lows of cruising. In this weeks episode of sailing sitka, we take on the joys of this sailing lifestyle but also sadly take on the bad. We broke our gooseneck on a passage and realized it had much more catastrophic damage than w...