I feel like the only way you would believe what I am talking about in the description, is by watching the video. In this episode we:
1. Witnessed our boat being high-jacked
2. Sailed on a 1/2 million dollar catamaran
3. Got rejected while entering St Lucia...
Disclaimer/Present day update: Our video timeline being a few weeks behind, note that we are not in Martinique. We are currently in Grenada, safe from Hurricane Irma's fury.
In this episode we learn how to cut and cook Lion Fish, go out for a sail with ...
In this episode, we witness a fish hitting itself so hard on Uma's hull that it knocked itself out instantly. We enjoyed it for diner before heading on a Pirates of the Caribbean adventure in the Indian River of Dominica.
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This week, we leave Guadeloupe and sail south to Les Saintes. We spend a few days exploring the tiny islands and getting some much needed repairs done on Uma. Then, it's off to Dominica. We get frustrated at our autopilot but still manage to enjoy yet anot...
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Some might think that living on a sailboat in the caribbean is always fancy and glamorous. The reality is that although great, living minimally on a sailboat is far from luxurious. Although adventurous, this life is hard work. But we love every aspect of ...
On our last day in Saba, we hiked around the rain forest and got REALLY lucky finding a ride back to our boat, as we were pretty much stranded on the Saban beach.
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Spending some time in Saba made us realize just how magical this island is. Everyone is so friendly and everything has an interesting story (from the road, to the sulphur mine, to its crazy airport) We had an amazing couple of days exploring its wonders an...
This week as we continue sailing the BVI's, we check out a super secret, very new and amazing dive spot off the North West coast of Virgin Gorda BVI. We also get our main sail repaired before sailing to Saba with a South African stowaway.
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After seeing a group of night scuba divers show up, we decided to go along for the ride and free dive around them... We had no idea they would have actually spotted the fact that we were very much naked. After a good time at Great Dog island, we sailed ove...
This week we sail our way east in the British Virgin Islands. Stopping at some amazing places along the way, like Sandy Cay and Cane Garden Bay. It finally feels like all the hard work is paying off. We even get to practice an improve man overboard drill, ...
While sailing in the US Virgin Islands, we had the pleasure to chit chat with the crew of Pizza Pi, and taste what became the best pizza we've ever tried.
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Culebrita is a small Puerto Rican island 20 miles East of PR. We spent a few days venturing around and even took a nice salted bath before sailing to St Thomas.
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We sailed around Culebra some more, went on an improvised hike, and found an unexploded ordnance!
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While we were in Culebra, we had the pleasure to meet up with a few fellow sailing youtubers including Sailing Doodles and RAN sailing. Malin and Johan and us decided to take this opportunity to explore Culebra by golf cart.
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In this step, we finally get to fix our bow pulpit thanks to Luis, our new hero! He picked us up, drove us back to San Juan and spent 2 days helping us put Uma's bow back together. With that done, it was time to weigh anchor and set sail for Culebra.
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In this episode we explain why we sailed onto anchor when coming into Fajardo PR. Hoping we found the source of the problem, we head into town to get new batteries. Which turned out to be an all day event. And in the end, we learned how not to charge lead ...
First of all, one thing to remember while in Puerto Rico, is that "IT ALWAYS RAINS... A LOT" Now about this video, when things don't go as planned, all you can do is figure out another way around the obstacles, find a new path, open a new door, there is a...
Knowing that while in the rest of the Caribbean, we wouldn't be doing much boat work, we took advantage of being in San Juan to take care of some long overdue projects, one of which being fixing the ONE regret we had when it comes to getting Uma ocean read...
In all the places we drop our anchor, we seem to always have a project to do on Uma. But we also try our best to make time to explore and get a feel for each area. We were amazed to see that San Juan has distinctively two sides: The full of big box stores ...
While we were in Samana, we got a bunch of good projects done including installing our windlass which our backs will be extremely happy about. On our very last day, after we had our passports stamped and were ready to haul up the anchor, an unfortunate eve...
With the airports open, we find a flight and return to our floating home in the DR. A few quick stops in Santo Domingo to pick up everything we need to add a few life changing improvements to our boat.
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