Small Girl Singlehanding a BIG BOAT - Sailing Life Offshore [Ep. 93]

We are pushing the limits of our southbound weather window and will be caught out and experience Uruguay’s “La Tormenta” or southern Atlantic storm! Watch as we deal with heavy winds and large confused seas on board our sailboat.

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What is real boat life? Most of the videos out there focus on floating around the Caribbean or Bahamas in a bikini. Now, that is surly life on a boat, but is it real? Sailing from island to island on a sunny day makes for shiny happy videos, but if one wants to sail around the world and liveaboard, they need to be prepared for some real singlehanded, solo, and doublehanded couples offshore sailing, which tends to be a little more like this. There are no bikini models in this video, just hardcore cold weather sailing in life jackets and foul weather gear!

About Sailing Sweet Ruca & Us

Kate and Curtis both learn how to sail when they were young. Kate was a junior sailor in Opti’s and 420’s while Curtis went cruising in the Great Lakes with his family. We met while sailing in a Melges 24 regatta and have been sailing together ever since. The first time we went cruising together as a couple was on a friends borrowed J Boats J 105 in the North Channel of Lake Huron and Canada (part of the Great Loop). Those few weeks, and watching other channels like Gone With the Wynns, Sailing Uma, Project Atticus, Delos, Nahoa, and Sailing La Vagabonde, convinced us that the sailing life was for us.

We bought our boat, a J Boats J/46, in 2019 after spending years searching for the perfect bluewater sailboat to sail around the world. We were interested in a catamaran and monohulls, but loved the performance cruising design of the J(it is faster than most cruising catamarans). We spent six months refitting her in Rhode Island, before selling our house and cars, quitting our jobs, and leaving land life for good to become digital nomads, with the goal of sailing around the world via Cape Horn.

It was never part of the plan to make videos on YouTube or become influencers, but we are so excited that we decided to create content. We love to share our knowledge and experiences with you! We have all types of videos from fixing repairs, to sail trim, to relaxing and listenable videos to asmr long form sailing content. Come sail away with us every Sunday Morning.

We have since navigated over 12,000 miles together, through storms, big waves, pandemics, and lockdowns. We sailed to Maine, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, Grenada, Sint Maarten, the Azores, Canary Islands, and Brazil, on our way south to Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to sail around Cape Horn and into the Patagonia fjords.

We never intended to become influencers or start a new YouTube sailing channel, but now it is what we do. We love sharing our experience and adventures with you. We have learned to fly the drone and edit videos, trying to produce relaxing and listenable videos for you to sail away and watch at home while having coffee on Sunday mornings. We hope we can inspire you to achieve your life goals and cross off those bucket list items also!