Sailing Zephyr Archive – Page 2

Boat Tour of our Beneteau Oceanis 43 ZEPHYR | Inside a LIVEABOARDS Monohull - Ep.36 Welcome aboard Zephyr, our tiny home on the ocean. This Beneteau Oceanis 43 monohull has been our home for the past 9 months and its about time we gave you a tour inside. ...

SOLO SAIL FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER - Ep. 37 In this episode of Sailing Zephyr James solo sails from the Balearic Islands to Valencia, Mainland Spain. This is where we are leaving Zephyr for the winter months. He encounters no wind for the first half of hi...

In this episode of Sailing Zephyr - SAILBOAT LIFE | How NOT to fold a HEADSAIL and preparing ZEPHYR for the WINTER - Ep 38 - James has arrived in a marina in Borriana, Spain where he will spend the next few days getting Zephyr cleaned up and ready for th...

In this episode of Sailing Zephyr - Our BOAT ZEPHYR CRASHES into a DOCK for the holidays - Ep.39 - After James' first solo sail and storing Zephyr for the winter, he heads to Madrid to be with Natalie's family. He then gets straight into the home renovat...

Wishing our wonderful Zephyr Family a Happy New Year! Natalie and I wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. We also give you some insight into what's coming up next for the new year. Hope you enjoy the video! https://www.sailingzephyr.com SUB...

BUYING A BOAT is the first part in our 3 part series on The ZEPYR STORY. We break down all the details on where the idea came from to buy a boat, the processes we went through in selecting a boat and eventually what it took to buy Zephyr. We get stuck int...

Money Money Money - is the second part in our 3 part series on The ZEPHYR STORY. It's full disclosure as we break down all the financial details on buying Zephyr and the costs related to the work to revive it from a hurricane write-off to a Blue water read...

Hurricane Damage No More - Buying a Boat - is the final part in our 3 part series on The ZEPHYR STORY. We run you through all the hurricane damage that needed fixing, the parts that needed replacing and all the hard work that went into reviving Zephyr. We...

In this episode of Sailing Zephyr BOAT DAMAGE & Winter Projects - The Return to Zephyr, head back to the boat after nearly 2 months away. We review the damage we sustained from the storm that claimed more than 20 boats and get stuck in to some of the m...

As STORM GLORIA comes our way, we are busy preparing Zephyr to ride it out. After sustaining damage from the last storm, we take no risks in doubling up every dock line and insuring Zephyr is far away from the dock. We also continue working through the ma...

GIANT WAVES From STORM GLORIA smash the coast of Spain and damage boats across the country... including in our marina. Natalie and I are on the hunt for some storage solutions for Zephyr and we return back to the boat to scope out if we sustained any dama...

Our new ZSpars Mast Fails...Again! It's all doom and gloom in this video as we discover a mast failure again and we find out some hidden secrets about our chartplotter that leaves James pretty frustrated. Hope you enjoy the video! https://www.sailingz...

We are celebrating 1 year at sea aboard our sailboat Zephyr. We take a look back at all the adventures from the last 12 months, the good, the bad and the amazing moments we had. Hope you enjoy the video! https://www.sailingzephyr.com GEAR WE USE Main ...

Broken mast parts, failed repair solutions and Zephyr gets hauled from the water for the first time in over a year. This weeks episode is all about trying to heal our wounded home. Hope you enjoy the video! https://www.sailingzephyr.com GEAR WE USE Ma...

Boat works are well under way as we tackle compounding, polishing and a variety of other projects to get Zephyr looking good. Hope you enjoy the video! https://www.sailingzephyr.com GEAR WE USE Main Camera: https://amzn.to/36HGhvg Camera Mic: https://...

This weeks episode sees Zephyr's repairs & launch interrupted by a wind storm that causes chaos in the marina. We still manage to complete some key repairs and projects during our last few days on the hard. Hope you enjoy the video! https://www.sai...

We finally launch our Sailboat Zephyr after all the repairs are complete. Then we are forced to abandon our boat in the marina as we go into the strictest quarantine conditions in Spain as the world comes to grips with Covid-19 / Coronavirus. Stay safe eve...

We are back! Finally! After everything this year has brought, we weren't sure what to do. Do we continue sailing? Will certain places be in total lockdown? It was looking pretty grim at some points. But in June, once Spain opened up it's borders, within ...

In this episode we continue with our sail across to Sardinia where we lose a few of our key electronics. The weather turns nasty and boy are we happy to arrive in Sardinia. Come along as we sail to some spectacular places along Southern Sardinia and enter ...

In this weeks episode we make our way to Sicily, stopping at the Aegadian Islands, just west of Sicily. Our sail over is full of wildlife and we enjoy every minute of it. The island of Favignana is our first stop and it definitely has us in awe. Hope you...

In this episode we continue to explore the Aegadian Islands and hit the water as much as we can. We install our new Mantus Bridal system and retire the old snubber. We then decide it's time to leave and head for the Northern coast of Sicily. Our destinatio...

Join us this we as we explore the city of Cefalu. We swap up the ocean for land for a couple days as we hike and roam these city streets. Our next destination is the Aeolian Islands, part of a group of 7 volcanic islands found 30 miles off the North coast ...

In this weeks episode get ready to head to two different islands with us. We find ourselves in the Aeolian Islands, just NE of Sicily. Salinas and Panarea are our next destinations and we are truly taken in with just the colours and wonders these two islan...

In this week's episode we head to the famous Stromboli Volcano in the Aeolian Islands. We consider ourselves so lucky to experience it shooting lava out.....the noise it made was even more spectacular than the vision of it. We meet a lovely Dutch family wh...

In this weeks episode we find ourselves no longer in the Tyrrhenian Sea as we cross the Messina Strait. We encounter the swordfish fisherman on their very abnormal looking boats as well as a ton of messy whirlpools. As we enter the Ionian Sea we are greete...

What seems like a peaceful anchorage turns into absolute mayhem! Check it out guys....we couldn't believe it ourselves! We had made it to Greece! This has been one of our bucket list destinations....and we are beyond excited to be here! After checking in ...

We are on a mission to get to the Lefkas Canal! We tack our little hearts out until we finally reach the entrance with a half hour to spare before the bridge opens to let us through! We arrive into a busy anchorage in Kalithea where we replace our main she...

Jam packed is the best description for this video. We cover a lot of ground on this one but we also relax in our own private anchorage and beach....we even take the opportunity to have a beach bbq! Our first one to date! We cross under the rio/anti rio bri...

Get ready to cross the Corinth Canal with us. Such an amazing experience, it was a mix of nerves, excitement and just pure bliss as we were going through. James is so excited about getting our cross on some epic drone footage, that we very nearly lost the ...

It’s time to hit up Athens....you can’t travel to Greece and not see Athens! So we try everything possible to get there with Zephyr but it seems impossible. Marinas there are crazy expensive and there is no place to anchor nearby...so after much debate...

Diving a World War II ARADO AR 196 wreck is the highlight of this episode. We do a heap of sailing this week around quite a few Greek Islands. Visiting each one for a couple of days and taking advantage of the Meltemi Wind. We get to drive again....this ti...

What do you do when you have an anchorage all to yourself? Scurfing of course. We hook dinghy up with a line and we are off. Poor dinghy and motor took a beating but we LOVED IT! This week we find ourselves on the Island of IOS....normally known as a the p...

Santorini it is! We make a last minute decision not to skip this island and boy was it worth it. Not only did we score a super cheap mooring ball on the neighbouring island but we also got cheap 1 euro tickets for a ferry to Oia, Santorini. After a week he...

We continue to enjoy Milos and everything it has to offer. We put to good use the second day of our quad rental by hitting up the prohibited sites on the map! We have our fingers and toes crossed that we don't break down at any of there spots, otherwise we...

Greece, no wind, cargo ships, Engine Troubles and an unexpected surprise as we arrive to a city that blows our minds away with history...Malta! We spend a few days exploring Pilos, Greece before making the No Wind and Cargo Ship filled passage to Malta. W...

Sailing through a hurricane in the Mediterranean is no joke. Whilst we are in Malta, Medicane IANOS forms around us just as we are about to leave for Sicily. We eventually make it to Sciacca, Sicily where we ride out another storm. Join us as it's a wild ...