Crossing the Mediterranean on a sailboat from Malta to Spain: 900 nautical miles in 6 days! Video of how we dealt with my burn at sea: ...
The Indian Ocean is big. It's daunting. It can throw wicked storms at you out of nowhere. But in order to sail around the world, we had to sail cross it. ...
We continue to try and sail to Australia but the weather is definitely against us. After 6 days at sea we have no choice but to motor the last three to four ...
We do our final preparations for leaving New Caledonia and go through the checking out procedure, visiting all of the government officials that we need to. ...
Join us as we set sails and leave South Carolina as we head to Florida for our bottom paint job. During our passage, we face multiple struggles as we learn to ...
We leave South Minerva Reef and sail towards Norfolk Island where we plan to spend a few days on our way to the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. It’s a very ...
We leave Tonga and sail in the direction of North Minerva Reef, a beautiful coral atoll in the South Pacific. We finally arrive at South Minerva Reef after a ...
We set off on our second passage from Hawaii to Washington, this time with just the two of us sailing Varuna, our Pearson 367. Departing Oahu, we sail north ...
Join us as we sail our final leg of the Italian coast, the Italian Riviera. Once we look past the ferraris and mclarens, we actually found a very genuine and ...
Join us as we continue our sailing around the world adventures, continuing our sail up the coast of Italy for Pisa, where we find there's more to the town than ...
We sail to Elba, the exiled home of Napoleon, where we find a wonderful island of beautiful historic towns, white sandy beaches, and even some surf! With such ...
Sailing across the equator is special moment. It's even more special when you cross with friends who have never done it before, aka Pollywogs! We had become ...
We’re finally at the end of our 36-day passage from Costa Rica to Hawaii… and searching for wind! Becalmed off Maui, Hillary swims with pilot whales, then ...
The countdown is on! Our latitude is getting closer and closer to zero as we approach the equator for the second time on our circumnavigation! Of course, to ...
Join us on a couple of lazy days of sailing up the coast of Italy, and we show you a typical day in the life of Tranquilo. But first we need to show Tranquilo ...
Sailing in Indonesia is always an adventure. If we're not dodging fishing boats and FADs, apparently we need to keep an eye out for waterspouts! We had a ...
Join us as we continue our sail up the west coast of Italy and do a whirlwind tour of Rome, visiting some of it's most amazing sites - the Vatican, Spanish ...
An ocean crossing is never easy on a boat, and constant use means lots of wear and tear on the boat and the gear. As we sail from Costa Rica to Hawaii we do ...
It's time for some real talk. Sailing in Indonesia is not very fun or very easy. And here's why: There are fish attraction devices (FADs) everywhere, ...
Life at sea can be pretty good! Despite blowing out our favorite sail, we have some pretty sweet tradewind sailing conditions, making great time as we sail ...
We just set out on our longest passage to date, over 4000 miles across the ocean from Costa Rica to Hawaii. A few days in, we’re getting into the swing of ...
Join us as we continue our sailing around the world, where we sail to Ponza. Forced to sit out strong winds from the north, we find a charming island paradise ...
A word of advice. It's perhaps not the best idea to take two ladies on a sailing passage that turns into a tough upwind bash. Especially when it's the first ...
What's this??? Two successful spinnaker sails in a row??? There may be hope for us yet! We were faced with light winds again for our passage down to Labuan ...