We leave Newcastle Island in Nanaimo on an absolutely perfect day and head to Galiano Island where we meet up with Alfy from Life is Like Sailing and spend a couple of days enjoying the early summer weather in a beautiful west coast paradise.
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We make our way to Cowichan Bay to take a week or so to fix our chain locker, but we find some unexpected issues along the way...
0:00 intro
0:37 heading out
2:05 the work begins
8:42 uh oh...
10:18 blue steel
10:49 the damage
14:19 local and fresh seafo...
After discovering numerous rust holes in our chain locker, we had to come up with a temporary fix to get us off the dock and back to sailing for the summer- cuz we weren't about to spend another summer in the boat yard.
0:00 intro
0:32 Step 1- Blue Steel...
After plugging our chain locker holes, we leave the dock in Cowichan Bay and head south to Finalyson Arm where we anchor up, light our wood fire place (cubic mini grizzly) for the first time, and just enjoy the incredible beauty that this area of the world...
We leave Finlayson Arm with a friend to send us off and head towards Tod Inlet and its beautiful forest within the city to spend a few days exploring and relaxing.
0:00 Intro
1:11 Leaving the inlet
3:44 Tod Inlet!
4:10 Ocean bath
9:30 A little bit of hi...
After a week in Tod Inlet, we leave with a couple of friends and head to somewhere we had heard many amazing things about- Sidney Spit on Sidney Island. We struggle with our Torqueedo and enjoy some time on the beach.
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We leave the lovely Sidney Spit, BC to visit Ganges Harbour on Saltspring Island, mostly so we can check out the famous Saltspring Island Farmer's Market. We find it and some more fun adventures on the way, including using our solar shower for the first t...
We leave Ganges Harbour on Saltspring Island to head to Thetis Island before heading to Nanaimo, but things don't exactly go as planned...
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After struggling to make our Torqueedo electric outboard motor work for us, we decide to buy a gas powered one, and don't waste any time using it to do the exploring we had been missing with the Torqueedo! Welcome to the Wayward family Yamaha 9.9hp 4 strok...
After a beautiful motor to Nanoose, we settle in for a few days to wait for our fridge, and get hit with a couple of unnerving storms in the process.
0:00 intro
1:38 where’s the wind?!
7:59 we made it!
11:55 Are we dragging, or is it just low tide?
14:...
After waiting weeks and weeks for a fridge, it finally arrives and we are able to complete our last task before heading north!
0:00 intro
1:39 The market!
2:52 Jellyfish invasion!
3:50 the fridge is here!
7:39 Install time!
After finally getting our fridge, we are ready to finish our last leg of our journey before heading through Seymore Narrows and the northern islands off of Vancouver Island!
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We finally start to make our way north through Seymore Narrows and on to Handfield Bay after a couple of changes in plan, where we forage for berries and make a tasty meal from food some food grown on the boat!
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We finally get our lives set up well enough to head out into nature in search of ways to feed ourselves! We collect salmon berries, nodding onions, try our hand at crabbing and tell you a little bit more about how we have gathered the knowledge we have.
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After spending a few days in Handfield Bay, we zip around the corner to No Name Lagoon and explore the Thurston Bay Area, both above and below the water!
0:00 Intro
0:15 a new anchorage!
3:11 Is someone living here?
7:27 snorkelling in almost freezing wa...
We finally leave the Thurston Bay area to continue our trip toward the Broughton Archipelago. We anchor at the Cordero Islands to wait for a good current for transiting into Johnstone Strait and learn just how quickly the currents in this area can move a b...
We leave the Cordero Islands on one of the most beautiful mornings we have ever seen, but things on the boat don't run as smoothly as the weather...
0:00 intro
1:20 perfect weather
5:37 crap...
8:31 our saviours!
11:22 from stress to safety
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We make the most of finally being in the broughtons with friends who know how to fish, and head out to catch ourselves a salmon! Once we have our salmon, I make a meal with it that is zero waste, and sustainably cooked with items that only came from the su...
We leave the beautiful Potts Lagoon and head up Beware Passage into Knight Inlet and Blackfish Sound on our way to the beautiful town of Sointula on Malcom Island! I also share some more foraged food tips with kelp rings we collect and dry!
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After having a great time in Sointula, we head to Port McNeill to reprovision and then sail our way to Sunday Harbour to explore an amazing area of the Broughton Archipelago!
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We leave Sunday Harbour for Napier Bay in the Broughton Archipelago where we are treated to numerous different locally caught foods!
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We moved from Napier Bay to the beautiful Carriden Bay and do a bit of exploring in the area, including visiting a completely floating community on Broughton Island!
Also the mountain seen in the video is Mount Stephens and not Mount Waddington
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0:00 Intro
0:29 Exploring ruins on the beach
5:04 Rafting up!
8:10 Fishin'!
9:47 Hiking in grizzly territory
Claydon Bay is an amazing bay in Wells Passage, Broughton Archipelago that holds some pretty awesome places to explore! We hunkered down for a few...
Here is a step-by-step of the process we used this summer to make our own bull kelp pickles while living on our sailboat! I dunno why, but doing anything on a sailboat is just more fun!
0:00 Intro
0:20 Step 1: Collect Kelp
3:31 Step 2: Get your ingredien...
After some awesome times in Carriden Bay, we continue our journey into the Broughton Archipelago, this time stopping at some overfalls (ocean waterfalls) on our way to Turnbull Cove before enjoying an amazing freshwater lake and canning some sea asparagus!...
We leave Turnbull Cove and make our way to the most beautiful place we visited all summer! The Pacific Northwest at its best- just outside of Nimmo Bay Resort.
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This is part 2 of 2 from our adventures in Mackenzie Sound in the Broughton Archipelago. We found an abandoned logging camp during this adventure, in one of the most beautiful places in the world.
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After leaving the magical Mackenzie Sound, we visit Nimmo Bay before sailing upwind to the beautiful Burly Bay and spending some time cleaning up our boat life.
After spending four months cruising without an autopilot, we try are hardest to fix the one that hasn't worked since we bought the boat, but as usual things don't go as planned.
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Chapter 4, Episode 38
After spending a couple of weeks in Port Mcneil, we get out fishing and finally catch some salmon and see some whales!!
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We head back to Dead Point Bay after a couple of weeks in the Port McNeil area and spend our time enjoying this amazing area.
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Welcome to Unna, our 40 foot steel Van De Stadt Norman 40 tiny home on the water. She was built in a boat yard in Amsterdam in the late 1990s and has lived in Europe as well as Canada. We plan to take her into Northern latitudes and on icy adventures in ...
We continue our adventures in Beware Passage and find a grizzy bear and her cub on a beautiful beach with a long First Nations (Kwakwaka'wakw) history.
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After a summer of not catching much, friends of ours were able to catch quite a few crab at once and were nice enough to share them with us while also teaching us how to can them!
We love to eat and preserve food from the sea so we can live as sustainabl...
After weeks of waiting, we start to head down Johnstone Strait, but weather reports don't tell us the truth in this gnarly bit of ocean.
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We head down the rest of Johnstone Strait and into Discovery Passage and catch a pink salmon just in time to lose our boat steering as our boat turns us toward shore....
0:00 intro
0:10 heading out
2:24 discovery pass!
3:29 uh oh....
11:57 so what happe...
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