In this episode Ella and Peck went for Sailing with their dear marina neighbor who owns 61' classic sailboat, Steve Dashew design. This week we are taking ...

Grant and Noël fix up their house to rent so they can cruise full time on their 1980 Down Easter Cutter and are left to go DIY full speed. Social: Check out ...

​@TotalBoat is awesome! thanks for helping us out in our time of need! #boatlife #catamarans #boatpainting

Our first overnight passage on our new Catamaran, Trade Runner. Pittwater south to Eden, NSW is about 240 nautical miles and we picked a pretty mellow wind for ...

In this episode Ella and Peck are visiting good friend Ward at the boatyard and discovering some new projects, different sailboats and meeting new people with ...

Sailing time! We leave Nelson Bay and sail south to Newcastle on our new (to us) Catamaran. Its only a short passage and we have chosen a pretty calm day but ...

In this weeks episode, we sail back to La Paz from our secluded anchorages. After finding out our prop has been chipped and bent, we start coming up with a ...

This week we began our lithium battery conversion on our 2017 Lagoon 42 sailing catamaran. We sat down with a professional and discussed the KiloVault HLX+ ...

Progress is being made on our KiloVault LiFePO4 battery install + solar upgrade today! Looking forward to completing this project… 🔋☀️⛵️

Moving Time! The process of packing up our old home (Schiehallion) and moving all that stuff to our new home (Trade Runner) is a big one. Accumulated stuff has ...

In this weeks episode, we sail into paradise and experience all it has to offer until our boat has other ideas. While cleaning the hard growth on our hull, Jay ...

Boats are a labour of love and the list of boat projects are never ending! We're working on some long overdue boat work, chasing down a leak in our sailboat's ...

Servicing the boat, all new plumbing makeover, some fun spending a belated Christmas with parents, & our first night on the boat since the haul out. Thanks ...

We decided to buy Trade Runner so in order to do that we needed to sell Schiehallion ASAP. I put together a bunch of images and info and advertised her on a ...

This week we left the BVIs and motored back to the USVI to watch a concert in the ocean and pick up our new Lithium batteries! In this video, we discuss our ...

Installing and testing car heater to work with diesel engine on aluminium sailboat sailing north.

Buying a Catamaran! Should we do it, is it going to the dark side? This week we go check out a Crowther Windspeed 39 in Port Stephens, NSW. Its a pretty big ...

This episode opens with Calico Skies being fitted into a travel lift. She's being raised up and out of the water and onto solid ground at the Cabrales Boat ...

In this episode, we detect a loose pin in our roller-furler that needs some immediate attention. Jay also cleans up the boat and shows what it is like to live ...

The storms have left us working instead until the bombcyclone settles down then we get to fixing the head and servicing winches! All in preparation to fulltime ...

Our current passage record of 176nm in 24hrs is under threat this week as we sail from Yamba 240nm south to Port Stephens. With a good wind forecast and the ...

In this weeks episode, Kenna travels back to Canada for Christmas while the Captain is left to do boat work all by his lonesome... Sitka is ready for an oil ...

Hi all! When we bought Magic Dragon, we knew that the engine ran but was in rough shape. After consulting with several mechanics and a surveyor, we decided ...

Grant & Noël continue to work on the boat, with weather forcing them to work on the inside of their boat and land home- both of which need to be prepped in ...