Another great fun few weeks working on Pickle. The jobs always seem never ending, but we have so much fun and learn new stuff everyday! This week we remove our ...
Sailing Pickle Family
We're sailing our 50ft yacht 'Tucana' from Melbourne to Sydney over the next 4 days... but as we do, we encounter 4 dramas.
Kristina’s Travels
WE BLOODY DID IT! We depart Melbourne on Tucana, our new 50ft yacht, AKA: Our new home! We say goodbye to our friends... former colleagues.
With our sails coming to the end of their lives and needing regular minor repairs we have recently been aware that we probably need to address this issue ...
Life in a Nutshell
After returning from the remote West Coast of Tasmania where we had no cell phone reception, and, discovering the widespread disruption due to the Corona virus ...
Free Range Living
We put up our new headsail from Precision Sails and test it out. Precision Sails: https://www.precisionsailloft.com/ Get a T-SHIRT(or 3!): ...
Jessica and Ryan Adventures
Our head sail has three rips in it! This is the process of getting a new head sail. We've done so much work with engines, fiberglass and basic boat ...
Sailmaking isn’t exactly voodoo magic, but because it’s pretty tough to find much information on sailmaking & sail cloth, we wanted to share everything ...
Sailing Soulianis
We're super stoked to have our new headsail up on the boat and we can't wait to go sailing with it! The sail came out great, it looks awesome, and it fits ...
Learning the Lines
In this episode, we built our own headsail from a Sailrite kit while being in Mexico. This is not really a tutorial, but mostly to give you a small idea of ...
Wandersailing
![Measuring for Our New Headsail | Learning the Lines [Casual Friday] – DIY Sailing](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gFlTQRk36qE/maxresdefault.jpg)
We needed a new headsail, so we're measuring for a new one from Precision Sails! Measuring your own rig is so easy, we did it while in chairs and funny hats ...
This video reviews sailing your boat with just a jib. Sailing with just a jib is convenient for a short sail, or for handling high winds, but raises some ...
Sail Fanatics
A quick look at annual maintenance for my sails. Don't forget to THUMBS UP, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE if you enjoyed this episode. Now you can bring LIFE IS ...
Life is Like Sailing
This video explains how to hoist a jib on a furling system, including setting up the furling drum and pre-feeder device before raising the sail. I'll explain ...
This is a fun sail video sailing here in Fiji from Qamea Island. With winds gusting 30 knots from astern we decided to cruise back steadily using only the ...
Catamaran Impi
If you have a roller furling system for your headsail then you know it can be a hassle to have the leading edge lined up to enter the track. Not difficult to ...
Join me in the adventures of living aboard, cruising and racing my 1982 C&C 34 here in the Vancouver, BC region. I never bought s/v Moonshine with the ...