While visiting rural Michigan, I got the unexpected pleasure of being able to explore the biggest and best car museum in America! The Gilmore Car Museum and ...

After saying farewell to our hurricane season home in the Caribbean island of Trinidad, I set off to visit somewhere completely different - rural Michigan. ...

Just a fun video of some lake sailing on a Pearson Ensign a few summers back. My cousin Nick and I are out to sail around the entire lake which takes about ...

We leave our cruising sailboat at the dock and go yacht racing. What happens when vloggers jump aboard hardcore race boats to compete in a 333 nautical mile ...

We leave our boat for the first time in two years. What have we gotten ourselves into? This video is a little more raw and real than usual. #Sailing #Sailboat ...

Settle in… we’ve got our first 20+ min episode for you! The river trip is right around the corner, and our preparations start getting serious. The list of boat ...

A leaky marine head can be a very shitty situation. At one point during our shakedown cruise around Lake Michigan, (thanks to a combination of rollicking seas, ...

Back in our homeport of Racine, we start tackling the long list of projects we want to finish before leaving for our journey down “The Ditch.” Kirk researches ...

That’s a wrap on our shakedown sail! In this episode, after sailing back across Lake Michigan to our home port of Racine, Wisconsin, and getting a little weird ...

Freshwater surfing! Kirk’s beyond stoked to get a chance to surf Lake Michigan. After leaving Charlevoix, we snuck into Leland just before a cold front moved ...

Summer in Michigan is magic, because it’s so fleeting. It usually arrives sometime in June, and by the time you’ve attended a family get together and a wedding ...

Every summer as Kirk was growing up, his family would visit Charlevoix, a quaint vacation town located on a skinny isthmus between Round Lake and Lake ...

Our shakedown cruise is officially underway! After crossing Lake Michigan with Kirk’s dad, we arrive in Pentwater, MI where we meet up with the rest of Kirk’s ...

As we head back to our hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan, we give you the history of how we went from living our everyday lives there, to sailing off into the ...

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