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Ep 156 High Wind Docking, Oyster Regatta, Sail to Guadeloupe
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Ep 156 High Wind Docking, Oyster Regatta, Sail to Guadeloupe
This is a bit of a mashup of footage we took while at our home base of Antigua, W.I. Starting with a rather pedestrian 2 mile motor-sail from Falmouth Harbour over to Nelson’s Dockyard, we find ourselves entering the land of clustered superyachts that al...
  • Apr 11, 2024
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:11:29
Ep 155 LifePo4 Lithium Marine Battery Install | One Year Debrief
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Ep 155 LifePo4 Lithium Marine Battery Install | One Year Debrief
EXPENSIVE MISCALCULATION As longtime viewers will know, the point of this channel has never been to shine a favorable light on ourselves. Instead, we're brutally honest when it comes to admitting our fails. And despite all efforts to be the “no drama” ...
  • Mar 28, 2024
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:02
Ep 154 Fighting Squalls on Passage to Martinique (Plus Boat vs. Reef)
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Ep 154 Fighting Squalls on Passage to Martinique (Plus Boat vs. Reef)
We depart St Lucia on Passage to Martinique, seeing 20-25 knot tradewinds, but squalls build in the afternoon, presenting wind speeds into the high 30’s (37 knots). For those unaware, these quickly become serious conditions. An un-reefed sail will be tor...
  • Mar 06, 2024
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:42
Ep 153 Three Must-Have Finds For The Cruising Sailor (Short)
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Ep 153 Three Must-Have Finds For The Cruising Sailor (Short)
Three no-paid sponsorship finds for the cruising sailor: On this Christmas Eve, I decided to do a quick short on few items the I’ve discovered and really like. None of these are paid sponsorships, and the manufacturers/suppliers have no idea we’re rev...
  • Dec 24, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:07:11
Ep 152 North to St Lucia
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Ep 152 North to St Lucia
Continuing on, we leave St Vincent and the Grenadines, heading north to St Lucia. sailing yacht talisman, sailing, sailing youtube, boating, top sailing, oyster yachts, oyster sailboats, oyster 485, offshore, bluewater, blue wa...
  • Oct 25, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:11
Ep 151 Heading North to Union Island and Tobago Cays
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Ep 151 Heading North to Union Island and Tobago Cays
Talisman continues the northward trek, leaving Grenada and Carriacou for St Vincent and the Grenadines. The first island in the group is Union Island, which is where transient boats clear in. We find that the town of Clifton is barely functioning under y...
  • Sep 27, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:47
Ep 150 More Docking Tips & Tricks, Plus Sailing Grenada
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Ep 150 More Docking Tips & Tricks, Plus Sailing Grenada
Tips and Tricks for Docking a Larger Sailboat So rather than do an extended written essay like last episode, this time I decided to add voiceovers to the video, which is a less cumbersome way of getting to the same place. We’ll continue along this line ...
  • Sep 07, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:32
Ep 149 Docking, Undocking, and Sailing in Grenada and Carriacou
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Ep 149 Docking, Undocking, and Sailing in Grenada and Carriacou
Tips and Tricks for Med Mooring: In this 149th episode of Sailing (Yacht) Talisman, we demonstrate (kind of) a specific docking process called Med mooring. In this case, the bow is going to be secured to laid moorings connected by a heavy chain to a helic...
  • Aug 24, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:50
Ep 148 True Offshore Sailing | 420nm Adventure | BVI’s to Grenada
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Ep 148 True Offshore Sailing | 420nm Adventure | BVI’s to Grenada
This episode covers our big (420nm) passage from Nanny Cay, Tortola, BVI’s to Port Louis Marina in Grenada. The point of doing so was twofold. The driving factor was that we’d never visited any of the Caribbean islands south of Saint Lucia, and it was ...
  • Jul 27, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:30:56
Ep 147 I Refuse to Fail at This! Fischer Panda Generator
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Ep 147 I Refuse to Fail at This! Fischer Panda Generator
Marine generators live in a harsh environment. Not only that, ours is almost 30 years old. And keeping it running has been a constant challenge. But over the years I've learned so much about diagnosing engine and electrical problems that I knew that with s...
  • May 27, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:03
Ep 146 For The Sailing Fans – SXM to the BVI’s
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Ep 146 For The Sailing Fans – SXM to the BVI’s
At the season got started, we were still doing a lot of boat projects. These never seemed to end, and I didn’t even make videos about some of them as it seemed like we were looking like a “project boat”. But then we set off from Antigua to Dutch Si...
  • May 04, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:13:53
Ep 145 Filming The UK Apprentice TV Show in Antigua
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Ep 145 Filming The UK Apprentice TV Show in Antigua
See link below to the full episode of “The UK Apprentice, Antigua” (S17, Ep1). The UK Apprentice S17Ep1 Full Episode https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gyda4https:/www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gyda4 This is just a stupid little #short of our recent ...
  • Apr 27, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:06:52
Ep 144 Choosing and Commissioning Our New Dinghy
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Ep 144 Choosing and Commissioning Our New Dinghy
We’re off to Sint Maarten to get our standing rigging replaced and to pick up our new AB RIB! Over the years our old Avon 3.1 Hypalon RIB suffered a multitude of problems, but by far the two most serious were having the rubber coating of the Hypalon fab...
  • Apr 20, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:19:08
Ep 143 Installing Mabru 12V Marine Air Conditioning
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Ep 143 Installing Mabru 12V Marine Air Conditioning
As a person with a lifelong sensitivity to heat, not having air conditioning on the boat has been the one drawback to cruising. I love the warm, clear waters of the Med and Caribbean seas, but have always struggle with overheating. So we finally dug deep ...
  • Mar 20, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:27:25
Ep 142 Huge 840Ah Lithium Battery Upgrade for Talisman
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Ep 142 Huge 840Ah Lithium Battery Upgrade for Talisman
2022 was probably the year we did the biggest upgrades to the boat. We added air conditioning, replaced the standing rigging, replaced our galley countertops and gimballing stove, bought a new dinghy, and of course upgraded the battery bank. For Talisman,...
  • Feb 17, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:31:46
Ep 141 Tuning Industrial Sewing Machines for Marine Canvas Projects
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Ep 141 Tuning Industrial Sewing Machines for Marine Canvas Projects
As I say in the episode, this is a bit off topic for a sailing channel, but I keep getting requests for exactly this type of subject matter. So here we go ... In this episode I demonstrate how Strataglass window glass in installed in Sunbrella marine canv...
  • Jan 19, 2023
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:27:04
Ep 140 Caribbean Partying and Sailing in Antigua
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Ep 140 Caribbean Partying and Sailing in Antigua
Viewers might remember Scott from our passage down from Annapolis at the start of the season. In this episode, Scott and his wife Mary Kay join us for a week of fun in Antigua. We start things out in Dickenson Bay, where we visit the floating Tiki Bar. R...
  • Sep 22, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:56
Ep 139 Bad Skipper Behavior | Sint Maarten to Antigua
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Ep 139 Bad Skipper Behavior | Sint Maarten to Antigua
Our guests Jen and Phil arrive in Dutch Sint Maarten, and we sail around the island with them, visiting Grand Case on the French side. This was a blast, and everyone had a good time. But eventually, it was time for us to leave SXM. We opt to sail at night...
  • Sep 08, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:52
Ep 138 Rigging Failure at Sea | BVIs to Sint Maarten
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Ep 138 Rigging Failure at Sea | BVIs to Sint Maarten
We bounce around in this episode. We find ourselves in the BVI, using some lost footage that probably should have been in the episodes before James from Zingaro came to visit. That said, on passage from Cooper Island, BVI to Dutch Sint Maarten we suffer a ...
  • Aug 25, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:25:00
Ep 137 James From Sailing Zingaro Visits Us In SXM
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Ep 137 James From Sailing Zingaro Visits Us In SXM
James has been friends with us now for several years, really since he bought his Oyster 485, a sister boat to Talisman. James is a character and has so much energy it makes you feel lazy. Through his podcasts, live streams, and YouTube Sailing Zingaro epis...
  • Aug 18, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:15:49
Ep 136 Windlass Parts and Fischer Panda Generator Repair
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Ep 136 Windlass Parts and Fischer Panda Generator Repair
Back to our windlass for routine maintenance and our Fischer Panda 6Kva Generator, which might be a bit more than routine. The windlass had a known crack in what is called the “lower clutch cone”, which was an easy enough repair. The footage shown is...
  • Aug 11, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:21:12
Ep 135 Are The British Virgin Islands Up and Running? Part 2
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Ep 135 Are The British Virgin Islands Up and Running? Part 2
In our long-delayed Part 2 of our tour of the British Virgin Islands, we again ask the question, “Are the BVIs ready for your planned charter or land-based vacation holiday?” To find the answer, you’ll have to jump into this episode and see for yours...
  • Aug 02, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:22:22
Ep 134 Are The British Virgin Islands Up and Running? Part 1
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Ep 134 Are The British Virgin Islands Up and Running? Part 1
Are the British Virgin Islands fully open? Let's go see. After the twin hurricanes of Irma and Maria in 2017, which decimated the BVIs, rebuilding was slow, with many of the Iconic restaurants and bars closed and not even being worked on. Then came COVID...
  • May 19, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:28:27
Ep 133 Rig Retension and Battery Fail
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Ep 133 Rig Retension and Battery Fail
After a short break-in period after our headstay replacement, it's time to retension Talisman's rig. Here's how we did it! We also had our generator start battery fail, which called into question the health of the engine start battery, which is of similar...
  • May 05, 2022
  • Language: EN
  • Play Time: 00:17:08

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