So it finally happened . . . We experienced our first storm at sea 8 days into our passage from the Canary Islands to Gibraltar, on route to Turkey. What a ...

Faial is really starting to stand up to the beauty we experienced in Flores! In this episode we learn a bit about how the Azores were formed from volcanic ...

With a bigger boat comes lots of systems and lots of little problems. The boat has been sitting for 5 years so there are issues with almost every system, ...

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We were nervous about going up the mast for the first time to install three antennas prior to our passage down The Keys. We then travel from Miami to Key Largo ...

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Would you rather dive with sharks or gallop on a horse when you don’t know how!? Well in today’s episode, we get to do a bit of both! We go out with a local ...

We finally got the motor started and we head off the dock and into the lake for Tarka's first sail. It was a perfect sunny day and we couldn't be happier!! ...

Do you want to know what to do in Madeira? This week we rented a car and explore Madeira. Standing on a glass ledge 580m high on the highest cliff in Europe, ...

My anchoring "Rules of Thumbs", some anchoring theory, and some real world anchoring skills. Anchor Weights Floating an Anchor

It was more of a hug aground 😖 A couple wise men have told me their are 3 kinds of sailors. Ones that have run aground Ones that are going to run aground And ...

This week we explore Funchal surroundings, basically a walking distance from the Marina or Anchoring for that matter. We went on a hop-on-hop-off bus ride. We ...

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The Azores have a long standing tradition of sailors painting their boat names on the jetty walls before setting out to sea, and in this episode we take that ...

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The North Atlantic can be quite the beast at times, and when in the Azores you must always check the constantly changing weather. In today’s episode, we jumped ...

Not the most fun day on Hakuna BUT since they're still things that need to get done, we decided to record it for you. Just in case you were wondering, we ...

On arrival in Grand Canaria, we had to dodge Firefighting Planes whilst also negotiating big container ships and ferries. A raging fire had been going for ...

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We sailed to Jurassic Park! Well, it certainly felt like it as we began to explore our first stop in the Azores- Flores Island. Our new friend Felipe offers ...

Our craziest sail ever! We're forced to turn back for the first time ever, then find ourselves sailing through a pumice field caused by an underwater volcanic ...

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