This sail turned from calm seas to all hands on deck. Cruising during hurricane season in Florida means we experience many squalls. Sailing up the St. John's ...
Here's a true depiction of the cruising lifestyle. A few boat projects sprinkled in between enjoying good food in St. Augustine, Florida topped by a lightning ...
More and more squalls come by during hurricane season in Florida. And one of them broke our semi flexible solar panel's junction box. Cory decides to repair it ...
This is the best feeling and this is also why we got a sailboat! At last we are living the cruising life once again. We get off the sailboat and go explore St. ...
Cinematic drone footage our sailing the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas. There are so many paradise like islands that we decided to share with you a little extra ...
As we start cruising the Florida ICW we really get worried that we messed up our Yanmar rebuild. Why are we going so slow? We then find the culprit which is ...
The moment of truth has arrived along with the most stressful and exciting day! Was the $697 Yanmar 2GM rebuild worth it, will it start? We spent over a month ...
Vlog #37 We sailed into Punta Perula and headed into townto check it out and stock up the veggie pile. They are totally rebuilding the Malecon. it was looking ...
Our Yanmar 2GM is finally ready to be put back in place. Fortunately Cody from sailing Vinyasa comes to give us a hand making life so much easier. ...
We are finding more problems with our Yanmar 2GM and not only a cracked piston. But like Cory says: " We're getting somewhere!" We have been learning so much ...
If you are doing a full Yanmar 2GM engine rebuild this video is for you. We explain how to remove pistons from the cylinder head. That's when we finally got a ...
Find out how to lap Yanmar 2GM valves and install valve springs and valve stem seals. In our complete engine overhaul we figured out a few tricks and what not ...
We finally receive our parts for the engine rebuild. We manage to remove our Yanmar 2GM which despite its small size is quite heavy and in the most awkward ...
We leave Yelapa, and set sail for tehuamixtle. Along the way the engine dies which made us a little nervous as there was no wind to get us going anywhere. We ...
Find out how to remove Yanmar 2GM valve springs without a compressor. In our complete engine overhaul we figured out a few tricks and what not to do and we ...
We are back in the Bahamas and have had a great time exploring the Abacos so far. We are excited to update everyone on what we have been up to and share some ...
Living at anchor in the middle of the ICW while the engine is in pieces can be really interesting and challenging. And this is the start of a long journey in ...
What a majestic beast this 12-14ft tiger shark showed us the way to the reef. It is safe to say I would have gotten out of the water pretty fast after seeing ...
What a stressful time on the ICW we had. After just sailing over 346Nm non-stop from the Bahamas without engine this was the dreaded moment. The wind did not ...
What a crazy journey this 346Nm non-stop sail without engine was. The most stressful part being entering the Ponce inlet at night in big swell without an ...
Time to leave the Bahamas for an intense 3 days sail without engine up the Gulf Stream back to the US. Trying to time a weather window was a challenge in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...