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!
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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!
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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...
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! 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?) ...
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...
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...
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!
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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!
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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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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!
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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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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 | 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, 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!
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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...
Tahiti! The fabled island of the South Pacific! It's no longer a sleepy island paradise but a bustling cosmopolitan outpost with an edgy reputation by sailors, but we still find its charms! And it's not just the town that's edgy, as we find out when we hea...
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