The Sailing Sweet Ruca crew, Kate and Curtis, meet up with SV Dragonfly’s Addison and Ryan to dive the wreck of the Tyrrel Bay. The wreck is located about one mile off of Grand Anse Beach on the Southwest side of Grenada, near St. George’s and Port Lou...
We cruise further "down east" of Maine.
We start off this video as we sail through the fog in Maine’s Bass Straight. It is a tight channel with lots of current. We raced another 50 foot for hours and beat them through by a few hundred feet.
We stoppe...
Welcome to Sailing Sweet Ruca Tech Talks, where we give you real-world, on boat information as we sail. Today, we dive in-depth into a full service to our Watermaker and show you how to do it as well. Follow along as we do it yourself (DIY). First we chang...
We continue our sailing journey around the world in mid-Maine. Join us as we make landfall in Rockland, ME, tour Penobscott Bay, cruise Maine’s coast, navigate to tucked away anchorages such as Seal Bay, and explore the scenic beauty and off the grid iso...
After over a month of Quarantine on our boat due to Covid-19, we were finally able to go ashore and tour the Annaberg Sugar Plantation. The Plantation is part of the Virgin Islands National Park, located on St. John, USVI.
Located on a bluff overlooking ...
We leave Third Beach near Newport, Rhode and make our first bluewater sailing voyage up Buzzards Bay through the Cape Cod Canal and into open water offshore in the Gulf of Maine.
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Sweet Ruca get's off the boat and explores one of the best sailing museums around. The Herreshoff Marine Museum offers some of the best exhibits and most interesting details in boat design and development through the years, not to mention the America's Cup...
SV Sweet Ruca, a J Boats J/46, is finally in the water and ready to sail for the first time since we purchased her.
She launches in Jamestown, Rhode Island, across from sailing mecca, Newport. We take her cruising around Narragansett Bay before heading ou...
Just as many are taking up the movement, we sold everything and bought a boat to accomplish our dream of sailing around the world. We set off on a road trip to see our boat for the first time.
***This is our very first episode. None of this footage was ...
We received and unboxed our Renogy solar panels and charge controller. We power our sailboat with a combination of solar, wind, diesel (engine alternator). This is our first uncut impression as we unboxed the solar we ordered. There were 410 watts of solar...
Kate takes you for a walk around the deck and inside of our circumnavigation sailboat, SV Sweet Ruca. Get a brief look at the layout and equipment on our year 2000 J Boats J/46 sailboat. This is our sailing version of a tiny home for the digital nomad lif...
We are @rucasailing. Kate and Curtis, sailboat racers turned cruisers set sail on the ocean for a round-the-world voyage with their dog, Roxy. Come sail with us as we make new friends, experience other cultures, learn about new things, explore our oceans, ...
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