Oh crumbs. A week we will remember for the rest of our days. We take a day sail from St Kitts to Saba. A rock in the Caribbean Sea, rising to great heights, ...
Sailing On Finding Avalon
It's the lady's birthday and the captain has laid on a few surprises. Join us for some food and drink appreciation, some sailing, some freediving and a dance ...
Another video in Jackson's Tantalising Tid Bits Series to help you with things we've had to learn the hard way in this boating life. This week Jackson shows ...
Time to leave Antigua and the next destination is St Kitts & Nevis. Although we aren't in much of a hurry so we decide to take the scenic route and go ...
A long and squally sail from Dominica to jaw-dropping Antigua. Here we savour a couple of unforgettable days of hiking through fields of butterflies and ...
Guests on board this week - Mike and Kristy. Xanthe met these two at a music festival 4 years ago. We were camping neighbours for the week; then as chance ...
After 20 days at sea it took us a while to get used to using the old legs again; not to mention how long it took to scrub off all the algae, barnacles and ...
The Captain is producing a series showing the more technical side to our sailing adventure. This first one is all about the Atlantic Ocean crossing that we ...
Land Ho! Welcome to the second half of our Atlantic Crossing; we hope your eyeballs enjoy this one as much as we wish we still had a fishing rod. Thanks for ...
Here's a little piece of my soul for you. Excerpts from my actual personal journal when crossing the Atlantic Ocean on Finding Avalon, via voiceover. I've ...
Sorry for our recent paucity in YouTube activity - you'll understand why now (and hopefully forgive us). The day we have spent six months preparing for is ...
Fuerteventura with two very esteemed guests in the shape of Freyja and Bubbles. Xanthe's two best mates made a short trip over from the UK to sail and surf ...
Part II of the Moroccan adventure we had absolutely no desire to end. Leaving behind the bustle of Marrakech, we sook out some surf and a palm tree abundant ...
Our first taste of sailing the Atlantic Ocean and our longest passage yet turns out to be very testing indeed. 4 days at sea and 48 knots of breeze threatens ...
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After a refreshing couple of weeks with Jackson's parents in the Balearic Islands, and a few days land-based at Xanthe's parents' house in Cabo de Palos ...
Welcome to Sardinia! We pick up two new crew members in the shape of Ben and Luke - Jackson's mates from back when he was part of the Miami University Sailing ...
With every long passage we learn a stack more, about ourselves, about each other, about life at sea, and first and foremost, about Little Miss Avalon. This ...
3 days at sea for Finding Avalon as we make the crossing from Greece to Malta. Sadly the boom didn't make it :( Luckily Malta turned out to be the best ...
We were propelled towards Zante with 46 knot winds. As much as we relished this, we did have to wise up in the end and seek refuge on the island of Kefalonia. ...
A bit of the bad luck from last week sticks around and it all gets a bit too much for the crew. Thank goodness we are in the Ionian Islands of Greece as the ...
A huge run of bad luck for Avalon. We leave for our first overnight passage and were forced to learn a series of lessons the hard way. Having to choose between ...
After 6 weeks at sea, we come to understand the challenges of managing a relationship on the ocean. We thought we would give you an unmasked insight into what ...
What a place! Avalon leaves Croatia for possibly the first time in her life and heads for the Fjords of Montenegro, where me make a few awesome friends. ...