We have a less than ideal anchoring experience on our first night in Mykonos, Greece when the Meltemi winds fill in on us. Stuck on a lee shore in 30-40 knot ...
If you knew there had been a recent piracy attack where you were heading, would you keep your intended course and still set your sailboat towards that ...
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Our Britican Experience guest, Paul, our crewmember, Douwe, and Sim, Sienna & I had some great long sails, a couple squalls (one big one), we took on water ...
Just yer average life at anchor next to a tropical island: boat work, beach walking, beer drinking... using a hookah (that's hookah, not hooker!) for boat ...
Bluewater cruising on a sunny afternoon. Sit back and relax with us as we run with main and mizzen prevented in 12-15kts of wind and a slight rolling swell. ...
Three or four metre waves hitting your sailboat beam-on doesn't always make for the most comfortable of overnight passages. But we were sailing, and that's ...
Did Liz catch any fish?? Come along for an hour and a half of open ocean sailing at the start of a 5 day sail to Borneo from Anambas. Wind 12-15kts from the ...
How hard can this be?
As we tried to leave Jakarta, something stopped us from being able to steer our sailboat, we couldn't move in reverse! What would YOU do? Watch the video to ...
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It's polluted, noisy, over-crowded, the traffic is appalling and it's sinking: is there anything to like about Jakarta? We think so! Jakarta was always in the ...
We leave Athens and head for the island of Kythnos. We finally get some good sailing and find the perfect little cove.
What is going on in the Java Sea? Illegal fishing. A sloppy-choppy swell. Chattering-clattering coming from our prop. Something really horrible in the water! ...
We anchored a mile from the smouldering remains of Anak Krakatoa. And one of us walked across the black sand to the lava flow of the recently decimated ...
We leave the charming town of Galaxidi, Greece on our way south and east, headed for the Aegean Sea. Along the way we get treated to the most amazing dolphin ...
With palms sweating and adrenaline spewing through our veins, the sea flowed beneath us. The earth had shifted after the devastating landslide and tsunami of a ...
Leaving Kioni, Greece, the coolest place we've ever been by boat, we head for the Gulf of Corinth, on our way to cross over to the Aegean side of the Greek ...
Have you been hit by lightning in a boat? We get cracking with "The Kraken", our Code 0, then get stuck in the middle of lightning storms in the sea at night. ...
While in Mykonos, Greece we get an opportunity to do a walkthrough of Hallberg Rassy 49 "Big Blue". This is a continuation of our occasional series aimed at ...
We have to make a 180 mile run across open ocean, but strong northwesterly winds are pummelling the coast, and are predicted to continue. Time is running out, ...
Our last two days on the Preveza (Greece) quay involve a masthead rigging inspection and upgrades to our dinghy davits. Following that, it's off to Kioni, but ...
Does sailing in foreign countries worry you? Are you scared of traveling far from home? Do you believe what you read online and see on the news, or do you want ...
We’ve been cruising using our savings for five years. We’ve run out of money so we’ve set ourselves up to offer weeklong cruising experiences for people that ...