The Sailing Family Archive – Page 3

On our sail from Panama City to the Galapagos we had flat seas and calm winds. With our Reacher up we wanted to get a nice drone shot of the boat sailing along in light winds. What a mistake! This mishap and more in this week's episode. Enjoy! POSTING LIV...

This is Part 2 of our passage from Panama to the Galapagos. Along the way we got the chance to haze our kids since they're not Shellbacks yet, like we are. Every ceremony is different, but we tried to make it fun and memorable. Not too many people get the ...

We have over an hour of edited footage from the Galapagos Islands headed your way shortly. We'll start here today in San Cristobal and Santa Cruz islands. We hope you like our summary! POSTING LIVE UPDATES ON SOCIAL: https://www.instagram.com/the_sailing...

If you thought the Galapagos was a barren wasteland with nothing but wild animals, you cannot be blamed. That's what the BBC and countless other nature channels have led you to believe. But the reality is very different indeed... ----------------- POSTIN...

The Galapagos can be expensive for cruisers to visit, and many of our normal freedoms are taken away. But on Isabella those rules are more relaxed, the town less developed, and the anchorage was more protected. We left thinking this was our favorite of all...

We depart the Galapagos for the Marquesas Islands, 3,000 nautical miles across the empty Pacific. Along the way we have total carnage in terms of breakage (chafe, ripped sails, leaking hatches) and some health issues aboard. This is Part 1 of a 3 part seri...

Sailing alone across an ocean is never easy, but in Part 2 of our voyage we encounter more than our fair share of troubles... ---------------- POSTING LIVE UPDATES ON SOCIAL: https://www.instagram.com/the_sailing_family/ https://www.facebook.com/the-sail...

The breakage continues, the war with the lice takes a deadly turn, we attempt some home schooling, it's movie night, Elizabeth almost catches a fish and all sorts of other shenanigans. Join us as we officially cross 3,000 nautical miles of the Pacific Ocea...

We have our scariest moment yet, and of course it's at night. We pride ourselves on being responsible sailors (keeping our family safe), but here we got "caught with our pants down and our spinnaker up" in a gale. While the boat was probably just fine, w...

#BoatLife: For anyone thinking about quitting their jobs and taking their family on an adventure, this is the video for you. We explain the pros and cons to this lifestyle, how we afford it, what it took to make it happen, and our thoughts on if it's worth...

#BoatLife before the Pandemic: As we explore the remote atolls of the Tuamotus, the stress of that remoteness comes home. We attempt to find food, we give you a tour of our nav table, and we explain how we do our watch schedule. We learn how to use our cam...

Seth shares how he got into sailing, we enter Archer into her first race, and we show you how we care for her amazing red paint. More guests come and they're afraid of sharks (silly landlubbers :). PS: This was shot before the Pandemic. Enjoy! POSTING LIV...

We come home from dinner and our boat is gone - a true nightmare for any boat owner. Yes, we are re-posting this Pre-Covid video to keep the timeline straight, but we hope you enjoy the updates we made... Kito Sylvain's Bora Bora Moorings Services ("BBMS...

We are on a remote island with a unseaworthy boat. We need to get her to a qualified yard on another island and fully inspect her for damage. And we learn that not everyone is rooting for us... This video was shot before Covid and summarizes our experienc...

We're back on Archer! Five months in 20 minutes is all it took! We show you the repair process and share what it felt like to get "home” at the end of 2019 (just before Covid became a thing). We owe a huge THANK YOU to both teams at Outremer and the Rai...

We are in the middle of Cyclone season and we need to move the boat. As we debate where to go, we share a few rescue stories from the Carenage, provision for the passage, plead for the sun to come out, get kicked off a wave in Huahine, show you how to exer...

We are on a remote island, in the middle of Cyclone Season. We need to get to New Zealand, 2,500 miles away. Cyclone Sarai is south of us. Another is forming over Vanuatu. Will we make it?! Will we catch that fish? Will this passage ever end!? Click to fin...

The hardest part of sailing can sometimes be deciding when to go, and when to stay. Here we make the hard call to keep going. NO ONE wanted to keep sailing and we could all have used a rest, but when you have a good weather window, you need to take it! So ...

After a single night in Tonga, we depart yet again for one of the roughest parts of the Pacific Ocean - sailing to New Zealand. What's to worry about? We just have a Cyclone to our North and a Trough to our South. I'm sure nothing will break and everyone w...

We land in paradise after an epic 15 day ocean passage. All we want is Ice-Cream, wild Kiwis, a haircut, hiking with sheep, a good restaurant, boat repair facilities, friends, history, culture, summer weather, epic sunsets and cool nights. Sound too good t...

Just days before New Zealand locked down for Covid-19, we visited the South Island. If you're looking for itineraries, this one is GOLD! Seth spent a lot of time researching where to go and what to see. Here's our perfect week with kids! Details below: ---...

Just days before one of the harshest lock downs in the world, we sail to Great Barrier Island off New Zealand's east coast. It was a beautiful place to be locked down, but we didn't know about the drama it would create as A LOT of boaters from Auckland dec...

We get pulled over AGAIN as we make our way into our Marina for lockdown. We're pretty sure having a red boat didn't help us any. And we had quite a far fetched (but true) story to tell. Oh, the DRAMA... This video was shot last year and covers the Level-...

NZ is Covid Free, but we're trapped. We can't go anywhere else, and winter has arrived. Some of our friends throw in the towel, and we hunker down for winter and a sliver of hope that Fiji or Australia might open. But will they? This is a monster episode!...

More things break on our trip from NZ to Fiji. Why does this keep happening to us!? And why does it happen so often at night!? We finally get approval to travel to Fiji and we leave New Zealand for warmer waters. Play a little Pirate Tag at sea, catch so...

We finish our quarantine and enter Fiji, but are surprised at what we find. As one of just a few tourists in the island group, we find the resorts are closed, the surf breaks are empty and the locals inquisitive. It is as if we are visiting Fiji before the...

Imagine watching the movie "Castaway" for the first time anchored comfortably off the beach where it was filmed. How cool would that be?! We finally leave Musket Cove and start exploring the rest of Fiji with our buddy-boat, Pu'Uhonua. Ben gives the kids ...

We're the ONLY ones. A collection of perhaps 20 boats and, thankfully, 6 with kids. In this episode we gather at the famous Blue Lagoon (the G-Rated version!) and break out all the toys. We surf, kite, sail, foil, hike and catch a show. It's not clear thou...

This is the dream: You're sailing around the world and visit a stunningly beautiful island where you are welcomed by the village Chief. You become friends with the locals and are no longer a tourist, and you are allowed to see what life is really like in a...

Ogea didn't cause this crisis, but they're feeling it. In this episode we talk to the village leaders about their efforts to raise the earth by hand and the impact that rising sea levels will continue to have on their village. It's not our usual type of tr...

We asked if you had any questions and we got 75 responses! And since we have guests visiting us this week, we thought we would edit a quick video instead. So here are all the answers to your wonderful questions - posted today, July 7th, 2021! 0:00 - INTRO...

How could you not be as excited as a kid in Fiji? In this episode we race Archer against our friends Pu (and blow a mainsail halyard in the process!). We paddle around in Fiji's most beautiful anchorage. We zoom down the Taveuni River-Slides and Dive near ...

We enter Archer into the Musket Cove Regatta, which was the ONLY large scale, International sailing regatta of 2020. We felt so lucky to partake and it was a celebration of sailing, Fiji and life in general! If you ever make it to Fiji, stay in Musket Cove...

As Cyclone season approaches, we start working on our escape plans. We knew it was a risk to leave the safety of New Zealand, and now we pay the price... We are posting live updates on our social channels: https://www.the-sailing-family.com/ https://www.i...

As we try to flee Cyclone Season, we get approval from Australia to enter, but then Queensland changes the State's rules that count-time-at-sea. As we apply for an exemption, we get hit by the first tropical low of the season. But then it turns into TWO tr...

By the time Cyclone Yasa hit us, it was the 2nd largest in South Pacific history and a "Strong Category-Five" storm. It was as harrowing experience we would rather not have again... This video covers the month of December, 2020. We should be all caught up...