Sailing Uma Archive – Page 3

After spending 4 days with friends in a super fancy marina, it was time for us to head to Syracuse to visit my family and enjoy a week in a completely different climate. It was my very first time enjoying so much snow AND I even decided to go snowboarding....

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. We'll be doing a more in depth review and installat...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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. If ...

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. If you enjoyed this episode, ...

We sailed around Culebra some more, went on an improvised hike, and found an unexploded ordnance! If you enjoyed this episode, please give it thumbs up, it helps us out a bunch :) WANT MORE? Visit http://www.patreon.com/sailinguma Become a patron to get...

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. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it thumbs up and subscribe, it helps us out a bunch :...

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. For more about Pizza Pi, check out their website: https://www.pizza-pi.com/ If you enjoyed this ep...

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, ...

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 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. If you enjoyed ...

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...

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. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it thumbs up, it helps us out a bunch :) WANT MO...

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 ...

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This week we take a brief sabbatical from sailing and adventure into the rainforest of Guadeloupe. We spent 2 days hiking a 35km portion of the GRG1 trail (La trace des Alizés) up the side of La Soufrière (the Volcano) and back down to sea level. The hik...

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...

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. If you enjoyed this episode, pl...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it th...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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. If ...

After 2 years of using our electric motor. We finally decided to remove the old transmission and go DIRECT DRIVE. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it thumbs up, it helps us out a bunch :) WANT MORE? Visit http://www.patreon.com/sailinguma Become...