Yoga, Propane Tanks, Kama Sutra, Laundry, Geodes, Gretsch Guitars, Holiday Reflections and a Q & A session Huge geodes and The Great Gretsch Sound exhibit are ...
ASMR. No talking, purely sailing. In this episode of Sailing Sitka, we do something a little difference. We lift hook in Mazatlan and hit the seas sailing ...
Sailing with sea turtles in Mexico. Why is there so many? In this episode of sailing sitka, we continue our sail north towards Guaymas, but first stopping in ...
Starting our 700nm journey north. In this episode, we say our goodbyes to La Cruz, a port that has been our home for 3 long months while Sitka was under ...
No longer stuck at anchor. In this weeks episode of Sailing Sitka, we test our newly installed prop by going out for a motor in Banderas Bay. After 3 months of ...
In this weeks episode, we make our way across the Sea of Cortez, from La Paz straight to Mazatlan. What we thought was going to be "smooth sailing" turned into ...
RIG FAILURE OFFSHORE. In this episode we enjoy the best qualities of sailing offshore. Dolphins, tuna, watching movies and warm weather...suddenly interrupted ...
We’ve made it to Seisia and go ashore in Peanut, to the Loyalty Beach Caravan Park, to pick up our spinnaker sock., finally! We measure and mark out the ...
We’re up on the hard at the Rosshaven Marine boatyard. It’s time to sort the new sails out. Magnus begins by putting the new staysail on the Reefurl furler ...
Description Nutshell gets hauled out of the water and is given a good clean. It’s time to dig deep to find our painting supplies in the starboard aft cabin, ...
The mizzen mast has been tandem project as the planking has progressed. Alix chipped away at it between other important tasks, and now it's finally finished! ...
The gaps in Arabella's planking are getting much smaller... and soon they will be no more. We are pushing hard to close up the hull with Carolyn's help before ...
The planking work is moving right along, but unfortunately Jack and Wes have to head home. We discuss the work that we got done as a team, then focus on the ...
We are looking ahead to getting back to planking Arabella this summer. In order to do that, we are going to want all hands on deck, so we got a little help ...
There is a lot of work going into restoring Victoria's old mast to be our mizzen mast. We already set up a sort of lathe and jig to cut kerfs into the mast so ...
Getting Victoria early in the project was one of the best decisions we have made. There was so much good material packed in that little vessel, and it seems ...
With road trips, brewery visits and beer tasting over for a while, we get back to all things boaty. We fix the mizzen sail and make a new cover for the hatch, ...
With the main mast step finished, it's time to make the mizzen mast step. This one is significantly smaller as it will hold a significantly smaller mast and ...
The bronze floors are done! It's a great feeling complete them and be able to move on to even more tasks that get us closer to launch. Steve keeps on with ...
This is an FTB Extra to accompany Vlog 059 (http://bit.ly/ftb_vlog059) We give you the low-down on how much our sails costs, and chat to Phil about the ...
We got new sails! We put them up and have a quick chat with Phil from Zoom sails about the process of making them. For the first time we've published two ...
We install our Lofrans Tigres windlass but you know for every positive achievement there's a whole bunch of dark clouds hanging over us. The outboard is ...
How to choose a windlass. Or, what windlass should we buy to replace our mangled mess at the front of the boat? There's some technical boat maintenance stuff ...
Imagine if this windlass malfunction happened on a remote Indonesian coast? In this episode Jamie reaches the end of his tether when the anchor windlass ...