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February 21, 2025
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Sailing TREASURE ISLANDS – Tranquilo Ep.64
Join us and our friends the fun loving Trupps as we sail to Treasure Island! - the island that was the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's novel! But then most islands in the BVIs are treasures! __________ Join our Tranquilo community to support us ...
Bodacious BVIs! – Tranquilo Sailing Around the World
We have to keep sailing around the World, but there's still some unfinished business for us in the BVIs - a visit to find the most iconic bar in the Caribbean and then help revegetate an island with the help of our friends from Foxy's! __________ Join ou...
TRAGEDY Strikes Tranquilo (Smooth Seas Never Made a Skilled Sailor) – Ep. 65
We've set sail again, leaving the BVIs and heading south for the mysterious and forlorn island of Saba. Without any way to go to shore we go exploring under the sea and find strange objects on the seabed. And that's not all, we wake up in the morning and f...
OH SNAP! Tranquilo Hamstrung: Our Snapped Steering Cable
Hobbling into St Kitts on emergency tiller, it's time to find out why our steering cable snapped and to get it fixed. But there's always a silver lining to being stuck in St Kitts, we get to explore its heritage above and below the water, with some of the ...
CUBA Tranquilo! – Tranquilo Sailing Around the World Ep. 66
Cuba! With Tranquilo out of action for now, and being in the neighbourhood, what's the obvious diversion? Head to Cuba! And while we've been to other "communist" countries, Cuba is a bit of a surprise. Yes the classic cars, the music (any Despasito fans?) ...
Tragedy Strikes Tranquilo 2 (Are U Kidding Me?!) – Ep. 67
Not long after leaving St Kitts after having fixed our snapped steering cable, and tragedy* strikes Tranquilo once again! Our engine won't start, and it's not entirely clear what it is but we suspect it's the Volvo Penta MDI issues that many are experienci...
KITTING UP Against Further TROUBLES
We're finally heading south, 15 days later than we planned after all the problems with our steering cable and the broken Volvo engine MDI. We head straight for Martinique, the largest yachting centre in the West Indies, where the order of the day is to sto...
PARADISE of the BLUE LAGOON – Tranquilo Sailing Around the World Ep. 68
After having to deal with broken steering and engines over the last few weeks, we're up for some well-deserved R&R, we're off to Marigot Bay, the Paradise of the Blue Lagoon! __________ Join our Tranquilo community to support us and help us keep our ...
Tranquil Bequia: The CARIBBEAN’s BEST-KEPT SECRET?
We're off to Bequia, perhaps the most tranquil island in the Caribbean with beautiful beaches, beautiful people and strong rum punches! It's not surprising sailors are keeping the island a secret to themselves! __________ Join our Tranquilo community to ...
HEAVENLY Islands – Tobago Cays – Tranquilo Sailing Around the World Ep.70
We're off to the Tobago Cays, the islands all sailors in the Caribbean talk about in glorious terms. And we can see why: azure waters, white sands, lush coral reefs brimming with tropical fish, octopuses, turtles and rays, and friendly locals and amazing f...
Skirting DANGEROUS WATERS: Sailing to Enchanting BONAIRE | Sailing Tranquilo Ep. 71
How do you avoid trouble sailing past the dangerous waters off Venezuela, where other yachts have experienced piracy and tense encounters? There's no two ways about it, there's no other way sailing from the Grenadines to the ABCs, and what we find at the...
Found: the BEST BEACHES in the WORLD? | Sailing Tranquilo Ep. 72
Have we just happened to find the best beaches in the world? Certainly some of the guide books attest to Curacao having some of the best beaches in the world, and with azure waters, white sands, coconuts on the beach, who can say otherwise! And incidental...
A Passage to Panama – Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep. 73
We're on our way to Panama! Over 4 days and nights, working the winds off what some consider one of the most dangerous coastlines in the world with the tradewinds accelerating around Pico Cristóbal Colón as it rises over 5,000m above the sea. __________...
PARADISE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD – San Blas Islands | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep. 74
We've finally found our little bit of paradise - palm islands, white sands, warm waters teeming with wildlife and friendly nomads - in the San Blas (Kuna Yala) Islands! This is what we expected of the Caribbean and we've finally found it tucked away in the...
ROGUES & CROCODILES – Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep.75
Finding our own quiet little bit of paradise in Cayos Coco Bandero, satiated we head over to the Holandes where a number of yachts and sailors are gathering, including one of the biggest Rogues in sailing, Josh Tucker, the Kiwi sail maker and testing partn...
LAST DAYS of a BEAUTIFUL CARIBBEAN SAILING ODYSSEY | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep. 76
It's our last days in the Caribbean in what's been a beautiful sailing odyssey over the many months and we're going to make the most of it! Diving coral-wreathed wrecks, exploring the local Kuna Yala tribe villages and hanging out with the monkeys, before ...
PREPARING to SAIL ACROSS the PACIFIC (should not be this Tranquilo!) | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep.77
We've finally arrived at the Panama Canal after months of sailing the Caribbean. While we have every intent to nuckle down and prepare for the Pacific Ocean crossing, there's too much fun and games to be head to take it too seriously. And to be fair, havin...
PANAMA CANAL Transit | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.78
We're heading through the Panama Canal, one of the greatest wonders of engineering and human endeavour! And it's all that we imagined and more! __________ Join our Tranquilo community to support us and help us keep our videos coming, become a Tranquilo P...
Sailing to GALAPAGOS – Lightning Storms & Boobies on Board | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep. 79
We're bound for the Galapagos Islands! First stop Las Perlas Islands just off Panama to clean the hull - Tranquilo has to be spotless to enter pristing Galapagos - and then we're off for the fabled islands! Along the way we meet the boobies, mahi mahi cou...
GALAPAGOS – Diving with HAMMERHEADS, Dancing with SEA LIONS | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep. 80
We finally reach the fabled Galapagos Islands, and it's all that we imagined with exotics volcanic landscapes and animals. We go diving with hammerhead and other sharks, dance underwater with sea lions (a childhood dream of El's) and of course we go and se...
The Heart of the GALAPAGOS Islands: Santa Cruz | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.81
We sail for the main island of the Galapagos, where the sharks are circling, the iguanas are chilling, the finches are happily evolving and the landscapes continue to impress! Unfortunately it is also time to say goodbye to one of the crew... __________ ...
Wild Wild Isabela (and its not-so-dormant Volcanoes) | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep. 82
We're off to Isabela, the largest and wildest of the Galapagos Islands, and there apart from diving with the local inhabitants (the sharks, turtles, and seals) and meeting the only penguins of the northern hemisphere (how did all these animals get her?), w...
SAILING 2,900nm ACROSS the PACIFIC: To the ENDS of the EARTH | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep.83
We're sailing for the horizons, for our longest ocean crossing yet - across the Pacific Ocean - leaving behind the Galapagos and sailing for the mythical shores of the Marquesas! It's time to get one with the dolphins, hone our fishing skills (almost losi...
Magnificent MARQUESAS | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep.84
Land Ho! After sailing 3,900 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean from the Galapagos, we land in the enchanting and magnificent Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia! Our first port of call is Fatu Hiva and its Bay of Virgins with its suggestive landsca...
GOING NATIVE in POLYNESIA | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep.85
The Tiki Fleet* is coming together on the island of Tahuata, where the locals welcome us enthusiastically into their tribe: feasting on wild goats and cooked bananas, fishing with bamboo rods, foraging and bartering for fruit, nightly bonfires and sundowne...
Trials & Tribulations CHECKING IN to FRENCH POLYNESIA | Sailing Tranquilo
It's about time we checked in to French Polynesia, there's only some much time that we can rely on the locals to give us a pass! We jump onto our new friends' yacht Calle II, a wonderful old Hallberg-Rassy, and head for Hiva Oa. While we weave our way thr...
Marlon Brando & The Chocolate Man | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.86
Marlon Brando & The Chocolate Man | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep.86 Ua Pou, the most photogenic of the Marquesas Islands (which is saying a lot!), a land of lofty cloud-bound crags, beautiful waterfalls, and Manfred, the Chocolate Man, an e...
Polynesian ISLAND PARADISE Found! | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.87
We've found our very own piece of paradise, far away from the worries of the world, a secret place where only sailors can get to (and perhaps the most intrepid of travellers willing to travel by plane, cargo ship, jeep and horse...). Apart from ancient ru...
Tattoos, Burning Witches & Shark Frenzies | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.88
There's only so much paradise anyone can take, so we leave Anahoe Bay and head for the other side of Nuku Hiva... one of tattoos and shark frenzies. And being the longest night of the year, our Danish friends invite us to celebrate with Ancient Danish Poti...
WHIRLPOOLS & ATOLL PASSES (It’s All in the Timing) | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep.89
We're sailing for the Tuamotus, the world's longest archipelago with islands dotted across the South Pacific like pearls across an ocean. Our destination is the atoll of Kauehi, but first we need to get through the notorious atoll pass and its rushing tumu...
DREAMS COME TRUE: Our Very Own PACIFIC CORAL ATOLL! |Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep. 90
We've always dreamt of this: sailing to our very own South Pacific coral atoll, 1,000 miles from anywhere, and all alone and all to ourselves. And we find it in Kauehi - at least for a couple of days. And then it only gets better when our fellow sailor fri...
YACHT RACING the Biggest ROGUE of the South Pacific | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.91
Two yachts is a race, three yachts is a regatta! And when it's two Kiwi yachts, an American cat and an Aussie yacht, it's the America's Cup, or as now El likes to call it 'The Kiwi Cup'. At least that's what you get when we all make the run from the atolls...
The SHARK WHISPERER of Fakarava | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.92
At the western end of the Tuamotus archipelago, the longest chain of islands on Earth stretching all the way from Muroroa to Mataiva just off Bora Bora, lies the atoll of Fakarava. Here we find the remarkable Shark Whisperer. And what happens when you pu...
The WALL of SHARKS Freediving | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.93
The wall of sharks, a wildlife phenomenon in the southern pass of Fakarava atoll, where sharks gather in large numbers and prey on the groper fish that spawn there. And there's nothing going to hold us back from diving with the sharks! __________ Join ou...
How To Anchor in Coral Atolls (to avoid snagging) | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World
One of the trickiest aspects of sailing in coral atolls and around coral reefs is avoiding snagging the anchor chain around coral outcrops to not get stuck as well as to not damage any coral. We look at a tried and tested method for anchoring around cora...