The Loveliest Sail | Sailing Soulianis - Ep. 74

It’s island time, baby! In this episode we take you exploring with Rahm, discover some amazing seascapes off the beaches of Great Guana Cay, cook the best coconut French toast, and start to assimilate to cruising life in the Bahamas.

We also fly our drone for the first time while under sail — and it all nearly goes tits up! In our last episode, we showed you how we land the drone onboard, even offering a few tips, like we were pros or something. But flying a drone is even harder from a moving vessel, scarier over water, and the worst when you have to navigate around a sailboat’s rigging to retrieve it, while moving.

We’ve flown our Mavic at anchor, and while underway on the rivers — when the mast and rigging were removed. And we’ve flown it with others onboard who could help navigate while landing (which really is a two-person operation). But, we had yet to try this out under sail with just the two of us…

Select tracks in this episode by Johnzo West from his new album “WAVES” 🌊

Hope you enjoy!
Lauren & Kirk

FILMED: April 2019

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THE ABACO ISLANDS, POST-HURRICANE DORIAN:

This footage was filmed prior to the utter devastation wreaked by Hurricane Dorian in September 2019. Dorian hit the Abaco Islands as a category 5 hurricane, with sustained winds of 185 mph, flattening most structures and leaving 70,000 people homeless. They are still rebuilding — and will be for a long time.

If you’d like to help the Abacos, check out PERC https://www.percabaco.org/. This is a 503c organization which supports a number of Abaco-based charities and is tax-deductible for U.S. residents.

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MUSIC
This episode features music from Johnzo West’s new album “WAVES” released 8.28.20! https://linktr.ee/johnzowest

Theme song: “Adventures” by A Himitsu — https://youtu.be/8BXNwnxaVQE
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0:00 Johnzo West – Waves
3:56 Shtriker Big Band – Lover Please Stay (ft. Ben Sharkey)
5:19 Johnzo West – Into the Sea
7:20 Sky Gaze – Peace State
9:51 Campagna – Oh, It’s Chill
12:02 Johnzo West – Undertow
13:40 Dialgo – Kuta
16:11 A Himitsu – Adventures

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