We're back on Archer! Five months in 20 minutes is all it took! We show you the repair process and share what it felt like to get "home” at the end of 2019 ...

Ep. 24 ~ Practicing points of sail and how to read the wind and trim our sails #catalina22 This is part two of a two part episode. In part one, we took Ourper ...

Welcome to Episode 31 of Carpe Diem Sailing. In this episode I go over dressing appropriately for sailing, in fair weather and foul. I cover sun protection as ...

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We are on a remote island with a unseaworthy boat. We need to get her to a qualified yard on another island and fully inspect her for damage. And we learn that ...

Ep. 23 ~ The wind is either not cooperating fully with us, or we just don't know what we are doing.... or... just hear me out, maybe it's a combination of ...

We come home from dinner and our boat is gone - a true nightmare for any boat owner. Yes, we are re-posting this Pre-Covid video to keep the timeline straight, ...

Ep. 22 ~ In this week's episode, we, and by we I mean Donovan, make a cover for the keel handle out of starboard, fix some electrical wiring and start planning ...

Welcome to Episode 30 of Carpe Diem Sailing. In this episode I go over nautical charts and how to read one. I cover information found in the title block, ...

Seth shares how he got into sailing, we enter Archer into her first race, and we show you how we care for her amazing red paint. More guests come and they're ...

We continue the rebuild of the hurricane damaged Fountain Pajot Helia 44 catamaran, where we go inside and start the stringer repairs using west systems epoxy. ...

Ep. 21 ~ In this episode, we fix some electrical issues, solar panel issues, we install our new bimini and try to set up a 6th line to tie our boat to a ...

#BoatLife before the Pandemic: As we explore the remote atolls of the Tuamotus, the stress of that remoteness comes home. We attempt to find food, we give you ...

Action packed episode this week as we pull the engine out and cut out the transom of the hurricane damaged Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 catamaran, and install the ...

Welcome to Episode 29 of Carpe Diem Sailing. Along with wind, propwalk is one of the biggest issues sailors face when docking or undocking their boats but it ...

#BoatLife: For anyone thinking about quitting their jobs and taking their family on an adventure, this is the video for you. We explain the pros and cons to ...

Ep. 20 ~ More repairs on our sailboat! In this episode, we install foam carpeting a bilge pump and we found another leak... Good grief. #catalina22 It's ...

We have our scariest moment yet, and of course it's at night. We pride ourselves on being responsible sailors (keeping our family safe), but here we got ...

Welcome to Episode 28 of Carpe Diem Sailing. In this video I try out and review a crew overboard recovery system. This 2 in 1 recovery system is advertised to ...

Sailing alone across an ocean is never easy, but in Part 2 of our voyage we encounter more than our fair share of troubles... ---------------- POSTING LIVE ...

Ep. 19 ~ Completely re-doing our back stay based off researching 2 popular YouTube channels mentioned below, as well as the GREAT Catalina 22 National Sailing ...

Ep. 18 ~ documents Donovan's research into how to properly set up our rigging, mainly our back stay. #catalina22 Researching ways to update and secure our ...

Welcome to Episode 27 of Carpe Diem Sailing and Part 15 of our Learn to Sail Series. Building on our last video, where I discussed the theory of shortening ...

We depart the Galapagos for the Marquesas Islands, 3,000 nautical miles across the empty Pacific. Along the way we have total carnage in terms of breakage ...