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 ...

We finally receive our parts for the engine rebuild. We manage to remove our Yanmar 2GM which despite its small size is quite heavy and in the most awkward ...

Find out how to remove Yanmar 2GM valve springs without a compressor. In our complete engine overhaul we figured out a few tricks and what not to do and we ...

Living at anchor in the middle of the ICW while the engine is in pieces can be really interesting and challenging. And this is the start of a long journey in ...

What a majestic beast this 12-14ft tiger shark showed us the way to the reef. It is safe to say I would have gotten out of the water pretty fast after seeing ...

What a stressful time on the ICW we had. After just sailing over 346Nm non-stop from the Bahamas without engine this was the dreaded moment. The wind did not ...