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April 19, 2025
Sailing Talisman – Page 5
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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” ...
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...
Ep 157 Docking Challenges in Antigua, W.I.
For this episode we present a somewhat simple docking challenge, but one that is seen frequently and has been know to put skippers on edge. After all, you never want to scuff up another boat. sailing yacht talisman, sailing, saili...
Ep 158 Boat Projects, Launching Talisman, Perfect Passage from Antigua to Sint Maarten
This episode isn't too complicated. We prep the boat for launch with a long list of projects to complete. We ride out a Cat 1 hurricane (Tammy), then it's back to work. Our new drone gives us some impressive footage as I learn to fly it. It's a new DJI Min...
Ep 159 Am I Cursed With My Boat Projects? Frustration in Sint Maarten
The cruising life is full of challenges, and truth be told, it would lessen the enjoyment were it not for both the failures and the successes. And there are times when you almost want to give up, but you can’t. These are necessary and important tasks t...
Ep 160 Cursed Projects Part II | Tortola and Scrub Island, BVI
In this episode we make the hop from Sint Maarten to the British Virgin Islands without fully completing the projects we were working on. And, of course more crop up. And things go from mere nuisance to much bigger problems when our mainsail starts jammi...
Ep 161 Sail and Furler Repairs Continue in the BVIs
We just can’t get past the problems with our upper swivel on the mainsail furler and the problems created by “sail repairs”. But that being the case we still try to enjoy the beauty of the British Virgin Islands, which are probably the preeminent s...
Ep 162 Exploring the Hotspots of the BVIs – Then Getting Thrown Out
I feel a bit bad about calling this episode “Exploring”. It’s really more about showing viewers what the anchorages are like and letting them know that these are areas to stop at. But I couldn’t come up with a better word, or one I liked better tha...
Ep 163 Back in the Amazing BVIs Again | Full Moon Party Trellis Bay, Foxy’s New Year’s Eve Party
Following our leaving for the USVI’s after being disappointed by the BVI’s ridiculous 30-day tourist visa rules, we return knowing that the officious behavior is simply the gatekeeping, and we know from long experience that these challenges are rarely,...
Ep 164 Various Drama in Simpson Bay Lagoon, Sint Maarten | Superyacht “Kisses” Kisses the Bridge
Kevin and Wendy Sailing: It seems like there's always drama in Simpson Bay Lagoon. Between the high (often katabatic) winds, generally poor anchor holding, crazy boaters, and hurricane debris under the water, there's always something interesting to going o...
Ep 165 Season Finale Island of Antigua by Drone
Antigua by Drone: In Episode 165, our season finale, we go for something completely new. It’s a whirlwind of nothing but aerial footage (with all new music) of Falmouth Harbour and English Harbour, two of the preeminent cruiser-friendly anchorages in th...
Ep 166 Kevin and Wendy | 2025 Season Opener Upgrades and Launch in Antigua, W.I.
2025 Season Opener: In Episode 166, our 2025 season opener, we cover just a small sample of the various projects required to get the boat on the water. This follows from breaking a lot of stuff the previous season, and needing parts and research to get th...
Ep 167 Kevin & Wendy | Boat Projects in Antigua Part II
Boat Projects in Paradise Part II: In Episode 167, we continue to crank through the various boat projects. We’re in the water now, but that just means a different sort of prep. Projects highlighted in this episode: Bad battery Getting hoisted to the ma...
Ep 168 This is the Cruising Life | Passage to SXM Dutch Sint Maarten
This is the Cruising Life! In Episode 168, We finally get prepared enough to begin our cruising season. The shakedown portion was a simple motor-sail from Jolly Harbour to Falmouth harbour, both in Antigua, followed by a couple of weeks at anchor and quic...