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 ...

Welcome to Episode 30 of Carpe Diem Sailing. In this episode I go over nautical charts and how to read one. I cover information found in the title block, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Episode 29 of Carpe Diem Sailing. Along with wind, propwalk is one of the biggest issues sailors face when docking or undocking their boats but it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Welcome to Episode 28 of Carpe Diem Sailing. In this video I try out and review a crew overboard recovery system. This 2 in 1 recovery system is advertised to ...

#passagemaking #sailingwithkids #nightwatches We finally sail from Mallorca to mainland Spain on a 4 day passage . In this video, you see what life is like ...

When a macerator GOES DOWN and you can't pump out...THEN WHAT? Well, you're about to find out and it's not pretty. Seriously, you've been warned!! Also, we ...

The FREAKS come out AT NIGHT...and cruise around on dinghies BEGGING for CANDY! This week it's Halloween in Woburn Bay. Loren stretches her makeup and ...

Welcome to Episode 27 of Carpe Diem Sailing and Part 15 of our Learn to Sail Series. Building on our last video, where I discussed the theory of shortening ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Loren! To celebrate we TREAT OURSELVES to a couple weeks at the beautiful boutique marina at Le Phare Bleu! Complete with a ...

In SAILBOAT LIFE, our DINGHY is our CAR. And our "car" is on its LAST LEG. We bought Nacho before we really knew what we wanted in a dinghy, so we ...

Welcome to Episode 26 of Carpe Diem Sailing and Part 14 of our Learn to Sail Series. In this video I discuss the theory of shortening sail or reefing for ...

Our FIRST NIGHT in Carriacou had serious DRAMA and NOT a lot of SLEEP. It was a rainy and stormy passage, followed by a squall-filled night at anchor in ...

Welcome to Episode 25 of Carpe Diem Sailing. In this episode I cover a few more knots: the cleat hitch, a bowline on the bight, the rolling hitch and I whip ...

SOMEHOW, our NEW LIFE PLAN turned out to be the perfect escape from the EVENTS of 2020. We left to SAIL THE WORLD in 2019, and then... And like most of the ...

When we first sailed to Grenada for hurricane season, there were a couple things on our list that we were most looking forward to. In this video we tick BOTH ...

Welcome to Episode 24 of Carpe Diem Sailing. How many of you sailors out there live in fear of pulling out a knotmeter transducer while the boat is in the ...

MAN VS. LOBSTER - Who Will WIN?? And Saving A SINKING DINGHY! This week we struggle to save our quickly deteriorating dinghy as multipel leaks and failures ...

Welcome to Episode 23 of Carpe Diem Sailing and Part 12 of our Learn to Sail Series. Flaking a mainsail neatly seems to be a universal challenge for many. In ...

WE never thought we'd get the WILLIES UNDER WATER, but this dive site changed all that. This week we bust out of the marina and head for the amazing Molinere ...