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66 – Nature is Freaking Lit
Our Tongan Haapai Group adventure continues as we sail to two new islands: Uoleva and Tatafa. We get to do a bit of racing, a bit of fishing and a bit of exploring. Pretty much everything you want to do in the South Pacific! Along the way we learn up cl...
Week One of owning and living on a boat!
Finally got our week one video out! It's a big one for us and we had to edit it twice thanks to a dead hard drive... But better late than never. Week one was a roller coaster, we had a lot of firsts on our boat, both good annnnd... not so good. But hey, th...
65 – Sailing to Ha’apai: A Humpback Heat Run
The time had come to explore a new part of Tonga: the Ha'apai Group. It's about a 60 mile sail to get there and along the way we got to encounter those magnificiant reason we came back to Tonga: humpback whales! We got to experience several 'heat runs' w...
Tour of our boat / home. Lagoon 410. Before the renovations.
Here's a quick walkthrough of our boat and home, a 40' sailing catamaran, pre modifications. This boat is pretty close to what we wanted and needed as a starting platform. The boat's in decent condition as is but we've got a lot of changes we want to make ...
What they don’t tell you about boat loans. Our experience financing our boat.
How did we afford our boat? What loan(s) did we use and how did we qualify? We answer all of these things and more. The process has a ton of pitfalls and if you're not careful it can be an unpleasant surprise as your trying to buy your boat. We're sharing ...
64 – Adventure on Kenutu Island
With Starry Horizons back on the mend, we set out to explore a place of the Vava'u Group of Tonga we had never been before: Kenutu Island. This is one of those absolutely picturesque South Pacific Islands. It's surrounded by a reef, uninhabited with a go...![19] Adventuring Glacier, Grand Tetons & Yellowstone National Park | Abandon Comfort](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/X8yEdDkrC3U/maxresdefault.webp)
19] Adventuring Glacier, Grand Tetons & Yellowstone National Park | Abandon Comfort
Well, here it is. Our favorite National Park, Glacier! Big Sky Country lived up to its reputation. Happy Thanksgiving to all of our crew. As mentioned in the episode, we are extremely grateful to have you all in our lives. Love you all! Please Consider ...
63 – Tongan Boat Yard Blues
After a long awaited return to Starry Horizons in Tonga, we immediately started re-commissioning her and discovered a serious problem. The anodes on our saildrives had completely disappeared and the saildrives had started corroding! This was something th...
Survey and Seatrial on a Catamaran
Here is our survey and seatrial video for the Lagoon 410 that we bought. The idea was to document the process we went through to help give an idea what it can be like for others interested in buying a boat. We're a little behind on our video editing but ar...
62 – Hawaii: Land of Volcanoes, Beaches and Pearl Harbor
This video marks a (dare I say: triumphant?!) return to the chronicles of our world travels. After helping safely deliver s/v Julia across the Pacific, we were in no hurry to leave Hawaii, especially since neither of us had ever visited before! We spent ...
We bought a boat!
We finally did it!! We bought a 2000 Lagoon 410. 41ft long, and 23ft beam (she's got some wide hips.) It took a long time (longer than normal) but we did it!! We've got a number of videos coming up about the survey, loans, and the process in general. But l...
61 – Sailing S/V Julia Part 4: Our Second Pacific Crossing is Complete!
S/V Julia sailed into Hilo, Hawaii on June 5th after 15 days at sea to mark the end of our second Pacific Crossing! And fortunately, this part of the passage didn't require me to jump in the ocean! Instead, we got to focus on fishing, sailing (after find...
60 – Sailing S/V Julia: Part 3 – We Got Stuck in the Pacific Garbage Patch!
Our second passage across the Pacific Ocean finally begins! San Francisco Bay gifted us a lovely fog to get started and off we went back out under the Golden Gate Bridge. The first few days at sea were a bit rough as we sailed upwind to avoid some nasty ...
Hurricane Irma’s impact on the yacht market.. with Gary Fretz
This year's hurricane season has been particularly rough in many aspects. One of which being the yacht market. A large percentage of boat in the Caribbean have been damaged and this will have an affect of the market for years for both new and used boats. I...