This episode isn't too complicated. We prep the boat for launch with a long list of projects to complete. We ride out a Cat 1 hurricane (Tammy), then it's back ...

For this episode we present a somewhat simple docking challenge, but one that is seen frequently and has been know to put skippers on edge. After all, you ...

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This is a bit of a mashup of footage we took while at our home base of Antigua, W.I. Starting with a rather pedestrian 2 mile motor-sail from Falmouth Harbour ...

EXPENSIVE MISCALCULATION As longtime viewers will know, the point of this channel has never been to shine a favorable light on ourselves. Instead, we're ...

I'm Renegade, these are my adventures! I'm a Photographer from Montana who lives on a sailboat, a 1966 Spencer 42' Sloop, right now we are in the Pacific ...

Sailing back to the magical island of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), we take locals sailing, harvest honey, and have the privilege of recording a local artist. This ...

We depart St Lucia on Passage to Martinique, seeing 20-25 knot tradewinds, but squalls build in the afternoon, presenting wind speeds into the high 30’s (37 ...

Three no-paid sponsorship finds for the cruising sailor: On this Christmas Eve, I decided to do a quick short on few items the I’ve discovered and really ...

Continuing on, we leave St Vincent and the Grenadines, heading north to St Lucia. sailing yacht talisman, sailing, sailing ...

Talisman continues the northward trek, leaving Grenada and Carriacou for St Vincent and the Grenadines. The first island in the group is Union Island, which ...

Tips and Tricks for Docking a Larger Sailboat So rather than do an extended written essay like last episode, this time I decided to add voiceovers to the ...

Tips and Tricks for Med Mooring: In this 149th episode of Sailing (Yacht) Talisman, we demonstrate (kind of) a specific docking process called Med mooring. In ...

This episode covers our big (420nm) passage from Nanny Cay, Tortola, BVI’s to Port Louis Marina in Grenada. The point of doing so was twofold. The driving ...

Marine generators live in a harsh environment. Not only that, ours is almost 30 years old. And keeping it running has been a constant challenge. But over the ...

The place we are sailing to is special because it's where cinnamon buns grow. It's a place called "The Island Farm", located in Palmetto Point, Eleuthera. We ...

At the season got started, we were still doing a lot of boat projects. These never seemed to end, and I didn’t even make videos about some of them as it seemed ...

See link below to the full episode of “The UK Apprentice, Antigua” (S17, Ep1). The UK Apprentice S17Ep1 Full Episode ...

We’re off to Sint Maarten to get our standing rigging replaced and to pick up our new AB RIB! Over the years our old Avon 3.1 Hypalon RIB suffered a multitude ...

A day of fun in the beautiful Bahamas. Often times, some of the best days we have while cruising are the simple ones. This is one of those days. Nothing ...

As a person with a lifelong sensitivity to heat, not having air conditioning on the boat has been the one drawback to cruising. I love the warm, clear waters ...

2022 was probably the year we did the biggest upgrades to the boat. We added air conditioning, replaced the standing rigging, replaced our galley countertops ...

As I say in the episode, this is a bit off topic for a sailing channel, but I keep getting requests for exactly this type of subject matter. So here we go ... ...

Happy New Year Crew!! We're back and super stoked to be full time working on making our EPIC Leopard 50 our perfect floating home. This week we get boat work ...