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Liveaboards to Cruisers: Final Preparations | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 19
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Liveaboards to Cruisers: Final Preparations | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 19

Just one week is left before we depart our home port of Racine, Wisconsin — for good!?! — and take off south down the river. The list of projects, errands, and to-dos is still a mile long. We need to buy anchor chain, install an anchor swivel, hook up plumbing to our secondary water tank, install s...
Drilling Holes & Laying Fiberglass: Installing a Windlass  | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 18
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Drilling Holes & Laying Fiberglass: Installing a Windlass | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 18

Settle in… we’ve got our first 20+ min episode for you! The river trip is right around the corner, and our preparations start getting serious. The list of boat projects we want to complete (as discussed in Ep 15) before leaving Lake Michigan is LONG. If, hypothetically, we had to pick just one proje...
GOODBYE Marine Head & Holding Tank, HELLO Composting Toilet  | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 17
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GOODBYE Marine Head & Holding Tank, HELLO Composting Toilet | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 17

A leaky marine head can be a very shitty situation. At one point during our shakedown cruise around Lake Michigan, (thanks to a combination of rollicking seas, a leaky hand pump, and plain ignorance) we ended up with toilet water where it SHOULDN’T be — outside the bowl. Thankfully it was mostly con...
Dinghy Outboards are Tricky Little Beasts  | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 16
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Dinghy Outboards are Tricky Little Beasts | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 16

Back in our homeport of Racine, we start tackling the long list of projects we want to finish before leaving for our journey down “The Ditch.” Kirk researches the heck out of LED bulbs. He determines the warm Kakanuo bulb to be the best option — based on color cast, energy consumption and brightne...
Results of our Shakedown Sail | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 15
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Results of our Shakedown Sail | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 15

That’s a wrap on our shakedown sail! In this episode, after sailing back across Lake Michigan to our home port of Racine, Wisconsin, and getting a little weird during the crossing (being alone on a boat definitely makes you go a little batty), we talk through everything we learned during our 3-week ...
Freshwater Surfing on Lake Michigan | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 14
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Freshwater Surfing on Lake Michigan | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 14

Freshwater surfing! Kirk’s beyond stoked to get a chance to surf Lake Michigan. After leaving Charlevoix, we snuck into Leland just before a cold front moved in. The front brought strong winds that ended up sticking around for three days, which prevented us from being able to leave, but on the fli...
Summer in Michigan is Downright Lovely | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 13
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Summer in Michigan is Downright Lovely | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 13

Summer in Michigan is magic, because it’s so fleeting. It usually arrives sometime in June, and by the time you’ve attended a family get together and a wedding or two, it’s already August, and you’re wondering where the heck the time went… If you’re like most, you manage to squeeze in a week of vac...
Sailing to Charlevoix: A Childhood Dream ACHIEVED! | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 12
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Sailing to Charlevoix: A Childhood Dream ACHIEVED! | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 12

Every summer as Kirk was growing up, his family would visit Charlevoix, a quaint vacation town located on a skinny isthmus between Round Lake and Lake Michigan. Round Lake was a boating mecca; all sorts of craft paraded across its waters, waiting for the fuel dock, or a city marina slip, heading t...
Cruising the West Coast of Michigan | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 11
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Cruising the West Coast of Michigan | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 11

Our shakedown cruise is officially underway! After crossing Lake Michigan with Kirk’s dad, we arrive in Pentwater, MI where we meet up with the rest of Kirk’s family. It’s our first of many ports of call along Michigan’s west coast we visit over the next few weeks. Pentwater ends up being one of ou...
Solar to the Rescue! | Review of Suaoki Solar Panel + Power Station
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Solar to the Rescue! | Review of Suaoki Solar Panel + Power Station

Products in this Review Suaoki 150Wh Portable Power Station Suaoki 100W Solar Panel Charger -- Just when we thought we didn’t need any more solar… When designing our boat’s new battery and solar system, we had hired a contractor to build a bimini — on which we planned to mount most of our sol...
The LAKE MICHIGAN Crossing | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 10
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The LAKE MICHIGAN Crossing | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 10

It’s our FIRST OVERNIGHT PASSAGE! We set sail across Lake Michigan, leaving in the middle of the night to ride the fading winds of a storm. Kirk’s dad arrives just before midnight to join us for the trip. The sail starts out with 15+ knts on the nose, and 5’ waves which drop to a couple feet by the...
Preparing for our Shakedown Sail | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 9
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Preparing for our Shakedown Sail | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 9

Products in this video: Tea Kettle - Manual Food Processor - We bought the boat, daysailed the boat, and have taken our first overnight trip to Milwaukee. Now we’re planning to sail up and down the west coast of Michigan, during which we want to spend some time at anchor. This multi-week trip wil...
First Sail on our Tartan 37 | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 8
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First Sail on our Tartan 37 | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 8

Until now, family and friends have always sailed with us on our Tartan 37, but this time we sail her by ourselves, up to Milwaukee and back. Leaving the dock at our marina in Racine is tricky. The dock is on the Root River (which frequently floods and drains), and is situated only a couple hundred ...
Moving Aboard our Sailboat & Freedom Party | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 7
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Moving Aboard our Sailboat & Freedom Party | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 7

The Tartan 37 is ours, and it’s time to celebrate! With the 4th of July arriving just days after we close on the boat, we decide it’s rather fitting to pop some bubbly and celebrate our own new-found freedom… from land! The hardest part of moving aboard is figuring out where to put our stuff. Fortu...
WE BUY A TARTAN 37 SAILBOAT | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 6
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WE BUY A TARTAN 37 SAILBOAT | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 6

WE FINALLY BUY A SAILBOAT. It feels like we’ve been searching for a boat forever! In this episode we finally buy a boat, a beautiful Tartan 37. Before we find the Tartan, we look at two other options in the Milwaukee area: a Pearson 38 and a Southerly 35. The Pearson had been left on the hard for a...
Our Sailboat Purchase Fell Apart | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 5
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Our Sailboat Purchase Fell Apart | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 5

Our offer was accepted on a Morgan 382! The boat is in fabulous condition, but still needs a bit of work. Fortunately she doesn’t need repairs, just finishing. Kirk and I do kind of like the idea of finishing out the systems ourselves. The woodworking, on the other hand, couldn’t be further above ou...
From California to the Midwest & Catamarans to Monohulls | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 4
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From California to the Midwest & Catamarans to Monohulls | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 4

There are literally thousands upon thousands of boats on the west coast, and we can’t find one to fit the bill? Up until this point, we had limited our boat search to catamarans, with a price tag of $50,000 or less. Yes, we admit, we probably could find a unicorn faster. But, since we haven’t found ...
Racing Catamaran as a Minimalist Liveaboard? | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 3
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Racing Catamaran as a Minimalist Liveaboard? | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 3

We’re off again to see another catamaran — this time to Seattle. We fly from San Diego, hop a few trains, ride a couple ferries and even inflate a paddle board to get to the boat, which is moored on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands. Kirk knows about this particular catamaran because his childh...
Searching for a Catamaran in Mexico | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 2
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Searching for a Catamaran in Mexico | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 2

The sailboat hunt is on! We drive from San Diego, California to Guaymas, Mexico to see a catamaran named Imi Loa. We’ve had our eye on this boat for a little while, and have been in contact with the sellers — they assure us this cat is ready to go cruising. This is the first boat we go to see in pe...
Leaving the Beach for a Boat | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 1
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Leaving the Beach for a Boat | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 1

We show you a slice of our San Diego lives, and talk about why we decided to leave our beach cottage in California — for life aboard a sailboat. Our search for the right sailboat took years: We researched thousands of sailboats online, saw hundreds in person. We made some crazy decisions, like dri...
Sailing Soulianis – Intro
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Sailing Soulianis – Intro

We escaped the traditional 9-to-5 life, sold our belongings, and left an idyllic Southern California lifestyle in search of what lies beyond the horizon. We’ve spent the last 10 years preparing our lives to set sail. Join us on our journey! Website: Instagram: Facebook: Music: A Himitsu - Ad...
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