After sailing into Guatemala, and realizing I (Kika) needed a visa, it was time for a little quick trip to a neighbouring country. While we were gone for 2 days, Uma dragged anchor for the very first time.In this episode, Dan explains why and how this happ...
On the second half of our passage to Guatemala, we get becalmed and enjoy a few hours of relaxation before making an interesting entrance crossing the sand bar in front of Livingston.
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Officially the longest passage we've done.With a norther blowing off the coast of Honduras let's just say, It was a rough ride. Not to mention my biggest OOPS moment yet. But is it really the dolphins' fault? They always seemed to bring us good luck, but t...
Our last few days were quite busy in Santa Marta as we said goodbye to our friends on Totem, our friends on Cool Change, said goodbye to our 45 year old boat cushion, and most importantly said goodbye to Colombia and sailed away to Guatemala!
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Christmas was approaching, and so in a nut shell, we decided to take a road trip down to Old Cartagena and make a movie ;)
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Not long after we arrived in Colombia, we ran out of coffee . We decide to take a trip inland with the mission to get some good Colombian coffee directly from a plantation. So we took a trip to the mountains, to a town called Minca, on our hike to our awes...
In our last episode, our knock-down caused our GPS to basically fry. We were worried we would have to replace this $3,000 piece of electronics. So our first mission (in this step) here in Santa Marta, was to go deep inside own to find a possible solution.
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We set off on our first long passage with our new Cape Horn wind vane! It worked flawlessly and even held course during and after our first knock down. We ended up spending most of the trip down below since waves were constantly soaking the cockpit. We rui...
After spending 2 and 1/2 months in Curacao it was time to get ready and leave. But before we set sail to our next destination, we thoroughly clean the bottom of the boat , and decided to spend some extra time with our friends on a tiny island off the coas...
In this episode, we install our new motor conteoller, say goodbye to Dan's mom, and also say goodbye to squeaky (our autopilot) as we finally receive and put together our new Cape Horn Wind Vane.
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We probably should have gone over this in the video. We've spent the last two years, researching and looking into pretty much every brand of vane out there. I think our de...
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Our time in Curacao has been more than adventurous. After meeting new friends, and doing some boat work, we invited Dan's mom for a week on Uma. During that time, we went out for a little sail aroun...
After 2 years of using our electric motor. We finally decided to remove the old transmission and go DIRECT DRIVE.
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When you spend more than a week in a place, you make friends, and when you make friends, the CRAZY gets let out. In this episode, we meet the cool crew of the sailing channel Sea Change , celebrates Mike's birthday and enjoy a bunch of fun adventures.
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Well guys, this is a first for us. Since my laptop is KAPUT (done, finished, dead, broken, crashed) I was unable to edit any videos for the past 2 weeks. Which led us to this legendary idea , an UNCUT 15minutes or less update of a small window into our liv...
I am always amazed by the cruisers community's help for eachother. I witness our neighbours boat dragging to the rocks in our anchorage in Curacao, and within a few minutes of radio chatting, several other cruisers came to the rescue and the boat was safel...
When our friend Mike said he wanted to be part of the episode, we told him "only if you use the most EPIC voice possible" well... this is what happened 😆 we had too much fin with this one.
Although our time in Bonaire was short and sweet, we got to ...
We're sailing into the sunset, downwind, spinnaker up! One of our most beautiful sails to date. We had a wonderful few days of sailing before making it to Bonaire....at night. We met up with a new friend Hans who showed us around the island and climbed to ...
Ever since we started sailing, we've always been beating into the wind. When we were in Grenada and planning our sail West to Bonaire, we had a few preparation and fixes to do before finally going downwind.
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This week, we sailed to Cariacou and FINALLY got ourselves our new dinghy outboard motor. We took that opportunity to visit a few nearby islands. We then sailed down to St George, Grenada and sailed right passed "Kick em Jenny" the only active underwater ...
One of the reasons sailors come to the Caribbean is to enjoy its beautiful white sandy beaches and Chrystal clear waters. The Grenadines, is the perfect example of this "sailor's paradise". In this episode, we explore the breath taking islands of SVG, ge...
We always say, if you don't push yourself out of your comfort zone, then you are not pushing yourself hard enough. For our overnight passage form Martinique to St Vincent, I decided to take that opportunity and practice solo sailing (well, sort of). Dan be...
Tour des Yoles is the most important yearly sportive event of Martinique. The entire country celebrates this event as traditional sailboats race around the island. We had the front row seats to the show, anchored in the bay of Fort de France (where the fin...
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