Spending a lot of time in the water lately. Deeper dives and bigger fish. What an amazing reef they have around Green Turtle cay area. We are just so blessed to be here.
Here is the video of me spearing the hogfish
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We get a warning of an intense storm coming our way from the wide open. We quickly release more chain and hope for the best. Waves break over the bow as we ride out 60 knots wind without an engine as a backup.
April has been a crazy month bringing terrifyi...
The Sailing Life in the Abacos is real sweet. We have been anchored at Allans-Pensacola Cays for a few days and Cory's been catching lots of meals. Today's spearfishing catch 2 beautiful hogfish.
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Gotta love those days when sailing is easy! You can read, cook up a storm in the galley or simply take a nap. After waking up in a new location we set sail from the Exumas to Nassau and try fishing in the Tongue of the Ocean.
Unfortunately with the Bahamas...
We made it to Hawksbill Cays and Fox Town in the Abacos. The sailing life is sweet as we go on dinghy adventures around cays, mangroves and sand bars. Make sure to subscribe for more videos and don't miss our weekly full lenght episodes every Thursday.
We sailed across Little Bahama Bank in 20-25 knots to then stop at Barracouta Rocks. There we speared a huge spadefish, a lobster and got a conch. And right now we are enjoying a dinghy adventure around Double Breasted Cay in the Northern Abacos. Loving th...
This is it we are on our way to the Abacos. We decided to go through Indian Cut at higher tide to save us a good 4 to 5 hours. The wind has been blowing 20 knots with higher gusts but luckily here the waves are much smaller. Stay tuned for more updates and...
We're doing some boat projects and editing in Freeport. With the strong Northern wind and having to get our 5 Day Covid test this was the perfect place to be. But now free to Roam around the Bahamas we are just waiting on the weather to let us head to the ...
A hard separation follows yet another weekend lockdown in the Bahamas. It's time to say farewell to our good friends Cody and Therese from Sailing Vinyasa. This is the hard part of cruising life.
Trying to fill up on water turns into quite the ordeal as wa...
After 12hrs of motor sailing across a really calm Gulf Stream we made it to the Bahamas. checking in was super easy and we're so excited to be back to the blue water of #bahamas. Now it's time to explore a different part of the Bahamas. #shorts
Yay. We are finally setting sail from West Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island in Northern Bahamas. We managed to get our paper to leave the US stamped at the airport, received our Covid negative test results, applied to the Bahamas Health Visa, got accepted...
This is the day everything went wrong; our steering broke and getting water was dangerous. Seeing the waves and the way the sailboat was moving I was thinking: "Can we even pull up anchor?" We were on our way back to the US through the Exumas so that we co...
After 260Nm and about 46hrs we sailed all the way from Jacksonville to West Palm Beach. We even saw manta rays on the way South and a rocket. good crossing overall. We got our Covid test done today and are now waiting for the results to cross to the Bahama...
Are we gonna make it to Black Point? We left our home at Black Cay in the Exumas and started making our way up the Exumas to head back to the US. But there wasn't enough wind and with no motor we flew the gennaker. We had to cross at Dotham Cut at the righ...
We are sailing into the night with an almost full moon and barely no wind. Actually we are motoring. Heading to West Palm a more or less 250Nm journey from Jacksonville and we do 5-6Nm per hour.
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Here's a little update on what's happening right now in Wildly Intrepid's life.
We are currently sailing North on the St. John's River by Jacksonville to reach the Atlantic Ocean.
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When your Yanmar 2GM hasn't been working for several months and there's a pandemic going on you dig in and start troubleshooting what's wrong with it. If you missed our part 1 we removed and checked our fuel injectors.
In this video Cory removes the Yanma...
This was a bit of a rough time in our sailing journey amidst the pandemic in April 2020. When the country you're in is urging all cruisers to go home, you're not allowed on land or to fish anymore bittersweet decisions happen. We really didn't know where t...
This is the start of the Yanmar 2GM diesel engine troubleshooting. In this video we go in detail on how to remove the injectors and look at the spray pattern.
Stay tuned for more detailed videos on our whole engine rebuild series as we discover problems an...
The key to staying happy during a 5 Day Lockdown on our small 33ft sailboat is to stay busy. Thus tearing apart the Yanmar 2GM diesel engine to try to see what's really wrong with it. All the uncertainties of the world during the pandemic make it so we are...
I've never been that relieved to leave a place and sail back to our Bahamian home at Black Cay in the Exumas. With stricter rules by the day, visits by police boats we try to enjoy our time here with Sailing Vinyasa. The frisbee games and spearfishing cont...
This is our biggest lobster catch ever. The last day of the spiny lobster fishing season in the Bahamas was excellent. Plus now we had some provisions of seafood to go to Georgetown further South in the Exumas. It was our first time back in a town since th...
Our little island is plentiful and we are living off grid on our small sailboat. Spearfishing fish, catching spiny lobster or conch and even gathering coconuts. Experience what life looks like when you avoid going to shore and haven't gone to the grocery s...
We made it back to the boat! We are super excited to be back and getting our boat ready for another season. It was a struggle but the adventure continues. Come catch up with us as find out what's in store for this coming season.
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