Slowly Chipping away at our to-do list of jobs before we leave the marina and head off to explore Malta at the end of the month, then onto Italy!

We head to the grocery store and do a huge shop, get a few more boat jobs done, and start getting the boat ready for our first sail!

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we review some of our upcoming projects on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik while we are in the boatyard. We don't ...

Our first sail on our new to us sailboat, a Kadey Krogen 38 called Hot Chocolate. We test our Kadey Krogen's sea worthiness in some high winds and big seas, ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we say goodbye to our home port of Seattle, Wa and head north to haul out our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. We ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we do everything we can to prepare the engines that we have not started up in almost a decade on our custom 435 ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we make the final electrical connections to our twin Yanmar 3YM30's on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. This ...

Conception Island to George Town. Before we departed Conception we were invited for an incredible evening of food and good conversation on a super yacht ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we plumb in diesel transfer pumps to drain our near decade old fuel from the tanks of our custom 435 catamaran SV ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we button up the hydraulic steering on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik and set our sights on the Yanmar engines ...

What is life aboard a sailboat in a liveaboard marina really like? We've been enjoying the perks of liveaboard marina life in Marina di Ragusa in Sicily. ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we finally install the rudders on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. We make good progress on our steering system ...

In this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we re-engineer and assemble the rudder linkage on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. Come back next week when we ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we keep pushing ahead on our steering system and fix an issue that developed on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. ...

In this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we take advantage of the summer-like weather to really crank out a few projects on our custom 435 catamaran SV ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we crack open our rudder cassettes on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. This was a project that was keeping Teal ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we take advantage of a few days of nice weather and jump on rudder repairs on our custom 435 catamaran SV basik. We ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle Teal becomes a sleuth and searches for information on SV basiks secret past while Linh gets challenged to rid our ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle the flu takes over 2/3 of the SV basik crew and we struggle to stay focused on our projects on our custom 435 ...

We are in paradise Bella shows us some of her survival skills and we get more amazing waves, Fish land on our deck and we leave in search of more places just ...

This episode I get to celebrate my birthday in my favourite place The Mentawi Islands and score amazing waves. We hope you enjoy and Cheers everyone for ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we help commemorate Seattle's new landmark right before we experience a full blown polar vortex. It was perfect ...

This week we are sailing to south Sumatra we get some pretty gnarly weather, there is a sail ripped, water leaks and fish lost but a lot of smiles and fun too. ...

On this week's episode of Onboard Lifestyle we dive back into the sugar scoops to lay down some fiberglass cloth using West System epoxy on our custom 435 ...