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What is the reality of boat life? Is it mainly about sailing the blue seas or is there way more to it? Here I’ve listed the top ten areas that make up the reality of boat life. Make sure you understand each area so that your expectations are realistic. R...
Are you trying to determine where to spend hurricane season while sailing the Caribbean? Let us offer you 10 reasons why this spot is the BEST spot. As you'll see we recommend Grenda!
Find more information at: https://sailingbritican.com/hurricane-season/...
There are three major areas within the context of boat life problems that are not boat related. They included issues with people aboard, difficulties with people back home and money problems. In this video, we outline the various problems and offer solutio...
In this boating how-to video, we cover a thru-hull fitting and seacock replacement. We also explain what they are, how they work, how they break and provide a demonstration on how to replace one.
To get a checklist on the exact process, links to the pro...
We’ve had a long history of trying to get our CopperCoat antifoul to work. After paying an initial fee of well over $10,000 to get our boat sanded back to the gel coat and an application of Coppercoat we discovered months later that the application did n...
Our Britican Experience guest, Paul, our crewmember, Douwe, and Sim, Sienna & I had some great long sails, a couple squalls (one big one), we took on water (again), enjoyed some incredible food, sunsets, snorkeling, met up with some old friends and mad...
Watch this, How To Become A Bluewater Cruiser Video, to get an idea as to the various steps involved with going from being a landlubber to a sailing cruiser. Discover what you need to know about bluewater boating, in general, and how to determine what boat...
Visit https://sailingbritican.com/lithium-battery-install/ for full spec and more details regarding our Lithium Battery Install.
Why get Lithium Batteries on a boat? You get more output for the same space (at least double the power in the same physical sp...
What's sailing life like when you're a sailing cruiser family AND you also do charters to help pay for the lifestyle? Get an idea of what it's like for us, a family of three, to live the boat life sailing around the Caribbean AND take paying guests from ti...
One of the most important things a blue water cruiser needs is good tasting drinkable water. HECK - cruisers drink a lot (and some of those liquids need to be water)! You can buy bottled water but it gets expensive, is heavy to lug around and it takes up v...
Get our Lewmar Winch Service Checklist on our website after you watch the video: https://sailingbritican.com/lewmar-winch-service-checklist/
It wasn't until we used our winch one day, and it made a horrible sound, that we discovered that it needed to be s...
Heavy Weather Sailing. You can’t avoid heavy weather - squalls and even storms pop up unexpectedly. We once had a Tropical Storm pop up and we had absolutely no warning. So…if you’re going to become a Bluewater cruiser it’s important to know what o...
After watching a weather disturbance for days we felt confident that nothing more than a bit of rain and wind was coming. Unbeknown to us, a tropical storm formed overnight and crossed just north of our current anchorage. Knowing that serious weather bands...
Watch our full CopperCoat Antifouling Nightmare video here: https://youtu.be/jVtzBenciz0
YouTube has disabled comments on all our videos due to having our child in some of our videos. We have complained over and over again yet our words fall on deaf ears....
In this video, I'll show you what needs to be repaired on a teak deck, the tools, and supplies necessary to repair it, the step-by-step process, and I’ll also offer some tips and tell you about what does and doesn’t work.
When you find out how much it...
In this video, I’ll show you how to easily tie onto a mooring ball (otherwise known as a mooring buoy), how to release the lines and leave a mooring ball and at the end, I’ll give you a little know technique about how you can prevent a mooring ball fro...
Learn how to leave a dock the easy way. Why make things difficult for yourself? There are many ways to leave a dock but this way is the easiest. Watch the video and learn how now. And after that, grab your checklist on the website here: https://sailingbrit...
We had CopperCoat Antifouling applied to the hull of our Oyster 56' in 2016. Since then we've had nothing but problems. Here's a play by play on everything that's happened since the original application. For all the details, visit https://sailingbritican.c...
What do cruisers get up to when they're sailing around the world? In the Caribbean, it's very likely that they'll enjoy at least one Carnival during the sailing season. Watch this video to get a taste for the Grenada Carnival and then read the article that...
If you're going to join the ranks of becoming a sailboat cruiser, what roles and responsibilities will you take on? Are you up for the challenge? Watch this video to find out who does what on Britican so that you get an idea of the roles that need to be fi...
Like this video, subscribe and visit our website for the full Man Overboard Drill procedure here: https://sailingbritican.com/man-overboard-procedure/ Also, check out our Rescue At Sea experience where we saved two people who were floating away: https://yo...
We started offering liveaboard cruiser sailing experiences, taking paying guests, on Britican three months ago and so far it's going great. We're not offering a 'charter' operation where we take people around on vacation. Instead, we are offering an experi...
We’ve been cruising using our savings for five years. We’ve run out of money so we’ve set ourselves up to offer weeklong cruising experiences for people that want to transition into our type of lifestyle. As we made this video we were on our 9th Brit...
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