The VLOG returns this Thursday. In the meantime:
What do we like and what do we hate about our Leopard 46 catamaran?
Should you buy a boat and put it into charter?
What do we think about aluminum boats?
When to buy the boat to sail away on?
iTunes Podcas...
Ride along as we take a very shallow route into the inner anchorage at Double Breasted Cays, Abacos, Bahamas. You'll see how seagrass can be deceiving and the way currents grab Clarity and push her toward a sand bank. But all the stress....it is worth it! ...
Megan's Ultimate Boat Cushion Tutorial: https://youtu.be/WLojC2BkNPE
iTunes Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/under-the-sheets-with-the-okellys/id1470844381
This week we bounce aimlessly around the Abacos and come to understand why this ar...
Part 2: https://youtu.be/nchKhM_TxYk
0:32 Intro
2:30 Solar Array
6:30 Deck and Sails
10:30 Cockpit/helm
13:00 Electric Winches
15:30 Fiberglass and Gelcoat and Paint
18:30 Electric Motor
23:20 Aft Deck Lounge
25:30 Navigation Station
28:30 Galley / Salon
...
Part 1: https://youtu.be/o6kOvjS1ytE
0:00 Galley and Salon
1:45 Starboard Side Guest Cabins
3:00 Study / Office (Mistake)
5:00 Owners Cabin
7:20 Systems Room, Spectra Watermaker, Inverters and Batteries
10:00 How much this cost, time and investment
14:00 E...
We backtrack to Marsh Harbor via a questionable shallow short-cut to meet up with our rigger to fix our bent cap shroud. By chance we cross paths with our South African friends aboard Top Secret, the most amazing charter boat to private yacht conversion we...
Rules & Regulations begin at 10:00.
Should you bring your dog along to the Caribbean? We talk about life aboard with a dog, regulations, and poop. It can be a pain in the *ss, but for us, we wouldn't do it without our dog Sugar. We do a country by cou...
A little bit of everything in this one as we spot the BIGGEST SAILING CHANNEL IN THE WORLD, talk about our changing plans because of our aging dog, and discover a problem up the mast that stops us dead in our tracks.
Companion Vid - Rules and Regulations ...
How much does it cost to cruise? We give the financial details for sailing our Leopard 46 catamaran in the Caribbean and sheltering for hurricane season. First, we go through the monthly budget, then we tell you how we afford to do this.
iTunes Podcast: h...
Anchoring a catamaran is very different from a monohull and there is NO need to scream and shout or wear NASA mission-control headsets. It took some time, but mastering this BASIC skill saved us a lot of headaches and money. It makes coming and going a lot...
02:00 Intro
03:05 Picking a Weather Window
05:30 Tides, Cuts, and Currents
06:20 Winds and Waves
12:27 Departing Eleuthera
18:53 Sailing Performance Numbers
23:37 Arrival Abacos
Weather, weather, weather! It makes all the difference! Nick is a meteorologi...
Previous - searching for this boat: https://youtu.be/LC8Q4oN2kjs
Previous - converting charter to cruiser: https://youtu.be/izMqIfbj3_A
This is a tour of our 2009 Leopard 46 catamaran. We bought her from Moorings and spent well over a $110K fixing her up a...
Part 2 of the conversion: https://youtu.be/gG8xnDcEh-o
Boat Search: https://youtu.be/LC8Q4oN2kjs
Boat Tour: https://youtu.be/5bgNEO-QKcc
We spent $110,500* converting a Leopard 46 bareboat chartercat into a tricked out cruiser with all the bells and whis...
Back to the boat upgrades and weather stuff next time, but while we hide out from crazy winds in Pipe Creek in the Exumas, it got me thinking about a question we get from just about every non-sailor when they find out we cruise full time on a little boat: ...
Quick little montage of the blustery weather we've been seeing aboard Clarity. We make the best of it with sewing and boat projects. Plus, strong winds mean fast sailing!
Made the tune with Logic Pro. Recognize the sample? My GenX'er friends just might!
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This is the short list of sites I use when we have cell or wifi:
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/index.php
https://www.windy.com/
https://www.weatheronline.co.uk
https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/wxmap_cgi/index.html
https://mag.ncep.noaa.gov/model-guidanc...
We go a little stir crazy waiting for parts in Puerto Rico and have an alien invasion in the Bermuda Triangle...strangest thing we've ever seen at sea!
Nick produced the tunes for this video with my Linnstrument and Logic Pro X
iTunes Podcast: https://po...
We take delivery of Clarity in Sint Maarten and begin the refit before heading north to start our adventures in the British Virgin and US Virgin Islands.
Music is of course the one and only Cranberries with Dolores O'Riordan's (RIP) ghostly vocals. I slow...
Conversion for cruising: https://youtu.be/izMqIfbj3_A
Boat tour: https://youtu.be/5bgNEO-QKcc
5 deals, 4 surveys, almost a year of shopping to find our current boat. We learned a lot!
iTunes Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/under-the-sheets...
We finish our trip up from St. Maarten with a cruise through the northern Exumas, Shroud Cay, the Berry Islands, and turn west towards Flarida. And someone has a birthday!
I couldn't remember who the name of the original tune, but I remixed it with Logic ...
Conception Island in the far SE Bahamas. Just a typical day on Clarity...a little paddling, snorkelling, and playing with Sugar. I call the tune Brunny. I produced it with a Linnstrument and Logic Pro X
iTunes Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas...
This is the backstory - where the current adventure begins.
We sell the house and hit the road (and skies, etc) in pursuit of a little more time. Maybe we find a big catamaran to carry us away, and maybe not.
In this episode, we make a dash across countr...
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