Join us as we continue our sailing around the world, where we sail to Ponza. Forced to sit out strong winds from the north, we find a charming island paradise with a great party atmosphere!
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Join us as we continue our sail up the west coast of Italy and do a whirlwind tour of Rome, visiting some of it's most amazing sites - the Vatican, Spanish Steps, the Colloseum, and Trevi Fountain, where El has to hold herself back from jumping in!
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Join us on a couple of lazy days of sailing up the coast of Italy, and we show you a typical day in the life of Tranquilo. But first we need to show Tranquilo some tender loving care..
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We sail to Elba, the exiled home of Napoleon, where we find a wonderful island of beautiful historic towns, white sandy beaches, and even some surf! With such an idyllic island, why did Napoleon ever feel the need to escape?
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Join us as we continue our sailing around the world adventures, continuing our sail up the coast of Italy for Pisa, where we find there's more to the town than leaning towers!
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Join us as we race up to the beautiful Portofino coast to escape a brewing storm. While we manage to avoid the worst of it and enjoy the delights of the town, we do get a scary surprise...
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Join us as we sail our final leg of the Italian coast, the Italian Riviera. Once we look past the ferraris and mclarens, we actually found a very genuine and laid back part of Italy.
As we head for the Italy-France border, we reflect on some of the highli...
Let's look in depth at out yacht anchoring technique step by step, the anchoring technique we use everytime to ensure we're holding firm and won't drag. It's our tried and tested technique that has so far safely got us around the world for over 20,000 naut...
We finally enter France where sailing is a national pasttime. Fil reflects on his sailing hero who inspired our sail around the world, Aiden has a night sleeping under the stars, El loses her memory, and we're all amazed by Nice has got talent!
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Join us as we are chased by the Dread Pirate Roberts down the French Riviera coastline. We head for the yachting haven of Saint-Tropez, where we are confounded by all the glitz, the glamour, it's all definitely Absolutely Fabulous, but we find no love - de...
Join us as we sail to the Islands of the Porquerolles, a wild tropical paradise off France's Med coast, one the locals like to keep secret from the outside world. We explore the delights of the islands and in return we bemuse the locals with the Tranquilo ...
Join us as we sail up to the majestic Calanques, dodging French submarines along the way. Once in the Calanques, we find the most amazing landscape of the French Med coast! The tricky anchoring just makes it all the more special!
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Join us as we sail to Marseille, one of the oldest ports in the western Mediterranean founded by the Phoenicians, the first sailing nation. We find a a funky edgy town with much to see and do. And with a fierce Mistral wind blowing and as we need a well-ea...
Join us as we leave France behind and head across the notorious Gulf de Lyon for Spain, chased by a looming Mistral weather system. With the Mistral bearing down on us, we make a run for it down the Spanish coast.
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Join us as we sail down the Costa Brava to amazing Barcelona. In town we go on a wild goose chase to remain legally in Europe, and we find there is tension in the air!
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Join us as we leave Barcelona for the tranquility of magical Mallorca, back amongst the fish amd the birds, a beautiful paradise of spectacular bays and calas - and get hit by rain squalls and ferocious winds as a storm blows through - one day Tahiti, the ...
Join us as we sail through blistery conditions to the iconic yachting centre of Palma, where we run into an enthusiastic fan, hobnob with the rich and ancient, and once we've had enough, head back out to the idyllic calas Mallorca is famous for!
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Join us aboard on our first 360 video, sailing down the coast of Mallorca.
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As we continue our sailing around the world adventures, we finally sail to Ibiza and head directly for the north, heading to the wild side!
Note, this was filmed prior to C19.
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Join us as we leave the wilds of Ibiza's north coast and head for the party town Ibiza is most know for. We party with an old friend and then escape town as a weather system builds, and find a sheltered spot where we are pleasantly surprised to come acros...
Join us as we continue our sail around the world, as we head back for the Spanish coast where we stretch our climbing legs, bring out the big orange beast, and in Alicante, the home the great Ocean Race, we get a reality check on the dangers of sailing.
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Join us for our last days sailing in the Med as we have a couple of fantastic days sailing west towards Gibraltar and the entrance to the Med. Along the way, the find that Whales love Midnight Oil, Dolphins love Techno. However before we make a run west, w...
We finally reach the west end of the Med - Gibraltar and La Linea. And here our key task is to prepare Tranquilo to enter the Atlantic! But there's still time to celebrate finishing our Med adventures before we make the big leap!
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Join us as we finally enter the Atlantic, and face our toughest passage to date as we sail for the Canary Islands.
Off the back of the most easterly hurricane in the North Atlantic, we face huge waves, big gusts, ferocious squalls and fast moving tankers...
Join us as we explore the islands of La Graciosa and Lanzarote, the eastern most islands of the Canaries, getting in amongst their not-so-dormant volcanoes and other fantastic landscapes, and freedive off the southcoast for underwater treasures!
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The perennial question amongst sailors: Catamarans or Monohulls. We sit down with Chris and Elissa from SY Barefeet and look into this very questions, the pros and cons of both based on their sailing and cruising experiences with their catamaran, and El pr...
We visit the wild desert island of Fuerteventura and its little sister Isla de Lobos. It's nothing like we've seen before. it really feels like the ends of the earth, and we love it!!
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We've finally made it to Las Palmas, and we start preparations for the transatlantic race, the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers. 13 major tasks await us, from provisioning for seven people for 3 weeks, to fixing a rusty smile between our keel and our hull - a r...
We take a well-needed break from preparing Tranquilo for the Atlantic Race and explore the incredible landscapes of Gran Canaria, from the canyons of Pico de las Nieves to the expansive sand dunes of Maspalomas! This is one breathtaking island!
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The day of the start of our great Atlantic Ocean Race - the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers - and before we slip out of the marina, we take a walkaround to introducet the yachts racing alongside us:
- the fit for purpose bluewater yachts from the likes of Dis...
We are finally off in the ARC yacht race across the Atlantic! In one of the slowest starts to the race with low winds, decisions have to be made, do we follow the majority of the fleet and head south to avoid the lows coming across from the west, or do we ...
We've just reached the tradewinds and we're holding on to position 2 in Division D, 3 in the Pacific Fleet, and 33 overall in the ARC as we race across the Atlantic. Steady winds and steady sailing, at least for now. Unfortunately things are starting to co...
We've made landfall in the Caribbean after crossing the Atlantic, and we celebrate with the other yachts coming in from the race, with a grand finale announcing the results.
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Time to weigh anchor and get moving again, for we have a rendezvous with friends up north. We hop from island to island, making only brief stops at exotic locations like Martinique, Antigua, St Kitts, St Barts and St-Martin!
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We're heading for the British Virgin Islands, the BVIs, and post-hurricanes there's few boats around, and we almost have this paradise all to ourselves. We explore, we play... ... and we frolic amongst the most spectacular coral reefs of our trip so far!
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