We were so scared to not be allowed back into the USA because the borders with Canada were only opened via air. However a few flights later we finally landed ...

What do sailors do on land during the Canadian fall and winter? We keep ourselves busy making fires, carving wood with a chainsaw and enjoying the wildlife. ...

This Chinese junk Schooner designed by Thomas Colvin was absolutely spectacular. We were fortunate enough to get out for the SV Sea Dragon's last sail of the ...

It really feels like everything went wrong on our way back to Canada. We needed to get out of the USA because our travel visa would run out in the middle of ...

Florida from Est to West Coast. We explored Hanna Park's lush forest and surfed it's beaches in between the typical hurricane season weather in Jacksonville. ...

Anchoring is something that can be very stressful. Loud wind noise and waves and next thing you know you're yelling back and forth. To maintain a happy ...

Getting a small sailboat ready for hurricane season in Florida requires a few things if you are leaving your boat behind. With our US visa expiring and most ...

This was a stressful time for us, especially when border patrol called us. We were stuck in the USA because of the pandemic. With a delayed haul-out date, a ...

Traveling to Cumberland Island by sailboat is the best way to explore this park at your own leisure. The twisted trees immediately transported me into a ...

Exploring Georgia by Land and Sea is a great way to see more of the USA when you can't get your boat hauled out due to the pandemic. This time we do a road ...

This sail turned from calm seas to all hands on deck. Cruising during hurricane season in Florida means we experience many squalls. Sailing up the St. John's ...

Here's a true depiction of the cruising lifestyle. A few boat projects sprinkled in between enjoying good food in St. Augustine, Florida topped by a lightning ...

More and more squalls come by during hurricane season in Florida. And one of them broke our semi flexible solar panel's junction box. Cory decides to repair it ...

This is the best feeling and this is also why we got a sailboat! At last we are living the cruising life once again. We get off the sailboat and go explore St. ...

Cinematic drone footage our sailing the Abaco Islands in the Bahamas. There are so many paradise like islands that we decided to share with you a little extra ...

As we start cruising the Florida ICW we really get worried that we messed up our Yanmar rebuild. Why are we going so slow? We then find the culprit which is ...

The moment of truth has arrived along with the most stressful and exciting day! Was the $697 Yanmar 2GM rebuild worth it, will it start? We spent over a month ...

We show you how to install the cylinder head back on after we've done a full rebuild on our Yanmar 2GM. We cover the torque specs, how to put the rocker back ...

Our Yanmar 2GM is finally ready to be put back in place. Fortunately Cody from sailing Vinyasa comes to give us a hand making life so much easier. ...

In this video we take apart our Yanmar 2GM pre-combustion chamber. We had a cracked piston so we learnt a little trick to remove a stuck pre combustion chamber ...

How to install pistons in the block without piston ring compressor? After some serious struggling with the proper tool we end up making our own which works ...

We are finding more problems with our Yanmar 2GM and not only a cracked piston. But like Cory says: " We're getting somewhere!" We have been learning so much ...

If you are doing a full Yanmar 2GM engine rebuild this video is for you. We explain how to remove pistons from the cylinder head. That's when we finally got a ...

Find out how to lap Yanmar 2GM valves and install valve springs and valve stem seals. In our complete engine overhaul we figured out a few tricks and what not ...