A BOULDER on the ocean floor WRAPS our CHAIN in a CRAZY KNOT. We're only 100m from shore with GUSTING and VARIABLE WIND and CURRENTS. Time for Eric to GO ...

We GAVE UP EVERYTHING to SAIL THE WORLD FULL TIME. Then we traded our MONOHULL for a 30 year old CATAMARAN. We've sailed several passes of the WEST INDIES, ...

CONCERN about PIRACY on an OPEN OCEAN PASSAGE is unavoidable, even though we all know it's uncommon. We've been seemingly closely followed several times while ...

7 MONTHS and we STILL haven't FIXED OUR MOTOR. That's because we're considering an UNUSUAL SOLUTION. It'll be a lot of work, much of it custom, but we think ...

A STERN CONCERT for a GREAT CAUSE and...are our GENERATOR ISSUES OVER?? Plus, waterfalls, a chocolate museum, and a fish market...with Chris and Mary ...

LIVING on a 30-year-old CATAMARAN can be EXHAUSTING. We finally hit a point where we NEEDED a change of pace, somewhere on LAND. And since we're in the LAND ...

LIFE on a 48-foot, 30-year-old CATAMARAN in the CARIBBEAN is a complex thing. We have to WORK EXTRA HARD for some things that most take for granted, BUT the ...

WHY did we SAIL THIS FAR? We FINALLY got to GRENADA after 2000 miles and MANY difficulties. Now that we're here, we're still struggling with the generator ...

In this episode of Building Wilda we continue various boat jobs as we are waiting for a new batch of paint/ primer delivery. We also start a mini project - ...

Have we FIXED the DEAD MOTOR? Does our GENERATOR RUN YET? We show you WHERE WE ARE in our PROJECT LIST and explain why a CATAMARAN RESTORATION LIST while ...

In this episode we continue painting the cockpit of Wilda and the aft section of the underside of the boat. Wilda is a Schionning Wilderness 1340 sailing ...

We JUST completed a TOUGH UPWIND SAIL to MARTINIQUE from ST. CROIX. We're now a ONE DAY HOP from completing a 4000-MILE ROUND TRIP to GRENADA. We LOVE ...

We discover HIGH WATER in our ENGINE ROOM on a ROUGH and WINDY OCEAN PASSAGE. We pump out BUCKETS and continue on, unsure of where the leak is. But this is ...

SHIFTY WEATHER FORECASTS leave us APPREHENSIVE about out 3-DAY PASSAGE to MARTINIQUE. We could end up in NO MAN'S LAND trying to beat our way back to the ...

Not just ONE, but BOTH our GENERATORS STOP WORKING as we're ABOUT TO LEAVE for ST. MARTIN less than 2 WEEKS after ERIC's HOSPITAL STAY. With limited CHARGING ...

EMERGENCY ROOM then 5 DAYS in the HOSPITAL. In the CARIBBEAN, with NO INSURANCE for the area, it's a NIGHTMARE for SAILORS. WHAT HAPPENED and WHAT WILL WE DO ...

1700 MILES UPWIND from the US to the VIRGIN ISLANDS in JUNE with only ONE FUNCTIONING MOTOR and the other JUST FIXED? It's a plan we NEVER STRAYED FROM for ...

There have been FIXES, FAILURES, UPGRADES, and FUN since we SAILED 2000 MILES to Charleston over 6 months ago. 1500 ADDITIONAL MILES later, we're in SAN JUAN ...

It feels like a MIRACLE that we're BACK in the CARIBBEAN, but already we have ANOTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE - one that we HAVE TO FIX before we leave here. But ...

It's 500 MILES UPWIND and AGAINST CURRENT from Mayaguana to the VIRGIN ISLANDS, with an EVER CHANGING WEATHER FORECAST at the WRONG TIME OF YEAR. It's our ...

We're in the MIDDLE OF THE BAHAMAS and FIGHTING our way EAST before making the BIG LEAP to the VIRGIN ISLANDS and ultimately GRENADA before HURRICANES start ...

HURRICANE SEASON is HERE. And we're still 1500 MILES from the SAFETY of GRENADA. That means we're MAKING TRACKS through the BAHAMAS. But we're ALSO kicking ...

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We NEVER get bored of DOLPHINS when they greet us on our passages! We feel like they're good luck and hope they see us as at least somewhat of a kindred ...