In this episode Maru and I finalize everything at the marina and get ready to sail away. Finally finished with all sailboat projects, we are cleared to leave ...
Sailboat life is all BALANCE. It's a lot of WORK, but the rewards come in many forms. It's often exhausting just getting to our destinations, then even more ...
From the base of a VOLCANO on the verge of ERUPTION, we embark on a very windy and rough 2 DAY and 2 NIGHT PASSAGE to Antigua. If we've learned one thing, ...
We found ISLAND PARADISE. But we CAN'T stay here FOREVER. In the midst of CHALLENGING travel restrictions, BEQUIA has been a LITERAL OASIS for us. But we ...
The SailAway VIDEO RELEASE DAY is now on SUNDAY...at least for a trial period! After releasing our video last Sunday due to simply being a bit behind, we ...
Nearly TWO YEARS AGO we SOLD EVERYTHING...then things got CRAZY. Since then we've been navigating a whole new cruising world much like everyone has had to ...
When there are 7 boats heading in the same direction, it's a race, right? We were last out of the starting blocks . . . . but hey, check out the video to see ...
LIVING on a SAILBOAT FAR AWAY from large centers of civilization gives us the option of taking ourselves "out of the equation". With case counts rising in the ...
This country was never on our original route to sail around the world, but because of........you know, it becomes part of our sailing and travel journey. We ...
We take you to the famous town of Amalfi, exploring passages below the city, and landed up right on top of the hill and had the most expensive meal that we've ...
Is this TOO GOOD to be true?! For the first time in the last YEAR we find ourselves actually sailing...DOWN WIND! And what's that?! The waves are BEHIND ...
What's next for SailAway?! Where do we go from here?! We catch you up on our most recent passage, life in Antigua, and our cruising plans for the future. ...
We had found a pandemic-free oasis of sorts in Grenada and then SVG, but it wasn't meant to last. To their credit, these islands take even small outbreaks ...
In this episode of Barefoot Sail and Dive we install our new jack stands! Turned out we were sitting on CRACKED bricks! AND just in time too because we had an ...
After SEVEN DAYS in QUARANTINE, The RACE is ON to make it to BEQUIA. It's already Christmas Eve and we have a tree to put up and some presents to wrap! We ...
Do we have ENOUGH MONEY for this?! And will we ever be RELEASED from QUARANTINE?! With every day we sit and wait for our PCR test results, we start to ...
While cruising in St. Croix USVI our 20-year-old windlass finally has enough. Houston, we have a problem! We race against Sahara dust storms to St. Thomas to ...
We broke our starboard genoa sheetline a few times and suspecting the Lewmar clutches. Also, I so wanted to have some extra lines at the helm, such as the ...
Leaving GRENADA and entering ST. VINCENT and the GRENADINES...which means more hoops to jump through. It's well worth it, but these days it's definitely a bit ...
We anchor under Mount Etna and swim in active volcano bubbles at Volcano Islands, Bottaro. Now we know how it would feel to swim in champagne lol. Thank ...
Painful on our NOSES and our WALLETS! As we gear up to finally leave Grenada and begin our journey north through the Caribbean islands, we begin the process ...
We up anchor and sail off into the blue, looking for a better place. It is time to SAIL our problems AWAY! We think we have found an island paradise until….we ...
Everybody has been asking HOW DID YOU DO IT!!! The story revealed ;-) And when you want to move on, you just have to do it, go for that darn PCR Test!! They ...
HOLIDAYS are HARD. THOUSANDS of MILES from FAMILY, even harder. This week we're celebrating Thanksgiving, but having not seen our families in over a year due ...