Here is our survey and seatrial video for the Lagoon 410 that we bought. The idea was to document the process we went through to help give an idea what it can ...
Jessica and Ryan Adventures
This video marks a (dare I say: triumphant?!) return to the chronicles of our world travels. After helping safely deliver s/v Julia across the Pacific, we ...
Out Chasing Stars
We finally did it!! We bought a 2000 Lagoon 410. 41ft long, and 23ft beam (she's got some wide hips.) It took a long time (longer than normal) but we did it!! ...
S/V Julia sailed into Hilo, Hawaii on June 5th after 15 days at sea to mark the end of our second Pacific Crossing! And fortunately, this part of the passage ...
Our second passage across the Pacific Ocean finally begins! San Francisco Bay gifted us a lovely fog to get started and off we went back out under the Golden ...
This year's hurricane season has been particularly rough in many aspects. One of which being the yacht market. A large percentage of boat in the Caribbean have ...
After prepping s/v Julia for the crossing to Hawaii, we got one day to explore San Francisco. And explore we did! Amy set up an itinerary that included ...
Apparently, we liked sailing crossing the Pacific Ocean so much, we just had to do it again! This time we hopped on board s/v Julia, a Helia Evolution, to ...
It's always the last day of a passage when things go wrong! We set sail from New Zealand to head back up to Tonga for another South Pacific cruising season. ...
Our time in New Zealand was rapidly drawing to a close. But before we could sail north for another cruising season in the South Pacific, there were a couple ...
It's always awesome whenever we have guests come visit. And when those guests happen to be two lovely ladies, it's doubly awesome! Our friends Liz and Breena ...
We head in to explore the magical island of Carriacou, Gustav gets the worst food poisoning, we set sail further south to the spicy island, and then Evelina ...
Sailing Malou
What’s this?! An Out Chasing Stars channel trailer?? Well, we figured after almost three years of making videos, it was about time! Meet Amy and David. ...
Back to the boat meant back to work and there was a lot to get done in order to prep Starry Horizons for another season of cruising. Our goal was to tackle as ...
This is it. The final part of our New Zealand road trip. Fortunately, we end things with a bang, visiting the Weta Workshop in Wellington and then continuing ...
The weather was getting a bit too cold for our liking, so rather than continuing south, we cut over to the east side of the South Island. First stop was in ...
Our New Zealand road trip continues as we take the ferry down to the South Island and explore along the north and west coasts. We do a bit of beginner level ...
We're back again with Gary Fretz. He has nearly 30 years of experience buying and selling boats and knows a thing or 3 about the industry. Gary agreed to help ...
Rugby... A sport most Americans have heard of but know almost nothing about. We figured being in New Zealand would be the perfect time to fill in this major ...
As you may have heard, they did a lot of filming for Lord of the Rings in New Zealand, and one of the most iconic locations was Mt. Doom. So of course we had ...
With Starry Horizons safe and sound on the hard, we traveled back to the US for the holidays, visiting friends and family. We even ran into a few celebrities! ...
This week we try something new and interview Gary Fretz. With nearly 30 years of experience buying and selling boats Gary knows a thing or 3 about the industry ...
After arriving in New Zealand, we spent a few days working on projects before setting out for Whangarei. We had a bit of time before our scheduled haul out so ...
The time had finally come to leave Fiji and set sail down to New Zealand. This passage is notorious for being rough and it certainly didn't disappoint. For ...