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THE BEST THING WE EVER DID: Sailing the Galapagos Islands ~ Vlog #46
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon Mind blown. We were warned against this part of the world for the pure reason that they would fleece us for every cent we owned. ...
Sailing to the Most Abundant Ecosystem on Earth! ~ Vlog #45
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon Pollywogs no more! Join the Finding Avalon crew as we cross the equator for the first time, which gives us the right to officiall...
Sailing 4,000 Nautical Miles with NEW CREW ~ Vlog #44
Introducing... Alexa! Lex will be onboard Finding Avalon for the next few months as we cover approximately 5,000 Nautical miles between Panama and Tahiti. She's a Mountain Guide in Japan so as destiny has it, the ski season reached it's end in Japan and ...
Sailing Across The Pacific Ocean! …Preparations Begin in Panama – Vlog #43
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon Thanks for watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up and leave a lovely comment. We post every Sunday! So if you...
How NOT to Transit the PANAMA CANAL by Sailboat! 🙈⛵️ ~ Vlog #42
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon Thanks for watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up and leave a lovely comment. We post every Sunday! So if you...
TROUBLE IN PARADISE: Sailing in the San Blas II ~Vlog #41
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon Thanks for watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up and leave a lovely comment. We post every Sunday! So if you...
INSANE Sailing in the San Blas Islands ~ Vlog #40
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon First of all, we would like to acknowledge the recent pirate attack in the San Blas Islands last week and the tragic loss of a Ki...
Sailing 1000 Miles to Panama in BIG WAVES ~ Vlog 39
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon 1,000 Miles rum line from the BVIs to Panama. And the swell reverberating from the static storm off the coast of Colombia gets us...
YACHT RUN AGROUND! Sailing in Anegada, BVIs ~ Vlog #38
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon First of all - an apology - we (/Xanthe) broke the GoPro so we've had to revert to the GoPro 3 for the next couple of episodes th...
An Accidentally Romantic Valentines Day Sailing in the BVIs ~ Vlog #37
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon First of all - an apology - we (/Xanthe) broke the GoPro so we've had to revert to the GoPro 3 for the next couple of episodes th...
BOAT LIFE: Food and Electricity
Kevin asked us how we get food and electrical power while we live full-time on our boat. Here's our answer. P.S. We have been having issues with our main camera, so this is not as high-quality as our usual videos. We hope to be back up and running with t...
Sailing the BVIs: Sneaking onto Richard Branson’s Private Island! ~ Vlog #36
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon Another week in our new favourite place - the BVIs. We see Necker Island, Richard Branson's Private island on the AIS and can't r...
Sailing the BVIs – Clothing Optional 🍑 ~ Vlog #35
Win a week onboard Finding Avalon and gain access to bonus content and live Q&As! ~https://www.patreon.com/findingavalon First of all - an apology - we (/Xanthe) broke the GoPro so we've had to revert to the GoPro 3 for the next couple of episodes th...
What’s it Like to Live on A Boat on a Private Island in the BVIs? 🌴⛵️ ~ Vlog #34
Welcome to the BVIs! We’re probably never leaving... Thanks for watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up and leave a lovely comment. We post every Sunday! So if you’d like to see us every week, why not subscribe. Oceans of love, X&a...
SABA – Hiker’s Heaven, Diver’s Dream, Sailor’s NIGHTMARE ~Vlog #33
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, with two small towns nestled in the clouds. No shelter or bays to speak of here and the Northerly ...
SURPRISE Sailing in St Kitts for the Birthday Girl ~Vlog #32
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 all around St Kitts. Thanks for watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up and l...
Floating Tool Shed – All The Tools You’ll Need For Your Yacht (TIPS FROM THE TOP)
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 you his tools. Ooh I say. Thanks for watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up a...
SHARKS Stole Our Fish! Spearfishing Around St Kitts & Nevis ~ Vlog #31
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 freediving/ spearfishing off some remote islands along the way. As usual, things don't go exactly as...
Tears Fall For The Dearly De-Pirated And Anchoring Next To Delos in ANTIGUA ~ Vlog #30
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 dancing to reggae with our Aussie crewmates Mike and Kristy. We had shared a lot of memories with the...
Through Hell and High Water We Make it to Dominica – The Island of Hot Waterfalls ~ Vlog #29
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 would have it, we became actual neighbours when they moved to the same suburb as us in Sydney. We pre...
Stumbling Around St Lucia Finding Our Land Legs After 20 Days At Sea ~ Vlog #28
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 miniature crabs who had taken up residence on Avalon's bottom. Now we find ourselves in the Caribbea...
TIPS FROM THE TOP: Crossing an Ocean
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 recently completed. We hope you enjoy gaining insights into how we run our boat. Visit the blog to...
What Happens to Sailors After 20 Days At Sea? (Atlantic Crossing Pt. II) ~ Vlog #27
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 watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up and leave a lovely comment. We post ev...
2,800 Nautical Miles Across the Atlantic Ocean – Pt. I ~Vlog #26
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 never read my diary out loud to anybody, so consider yourselves welcomed into the circle of trust. 2...
ARC Rally RACE DAY… We Are Crossing The Atlantic Ocean! ~ Vlog #25
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 finally upon us... Across the Atlantic Ocean we go. The crew convenes in Gran Canaria to begin cele...
Blue Crush 3 (3 Chicks Surfing & Sailing Fuerteventura) – Vlog 24
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 around the island. A lot of love bursting out the seams of this episode. Freyja, Xanthe and Bubbles...
An Unforgettable Moroccan Road Trip (In Effort to Forget About Broken Rigging) – Vlog #23
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 oasis. After we woke up from the dream, it was back to facing the music in the form of broken rigg...
Island Christmas (based on White Christmas) Holiday Card from George Town
Here's our video Christmas card from Georgetown, Exuma, featuring "White Christmas" with revised lyrics to suit our tropical weather. It's our holiday gift to the cruiser community and to our friends and families far away. As the song says, "we hope your h...
Emily & Clark’s Intentional Sailing Life
A Boomer and a Millennial fall in love, have adventures and live intentionally. This is our channel about frugal, intentional, off-grid life aboard an antique sailboat named Temptress (and other adventures and travel). #969681 --- PLEASE SUBSCRIBE! Follo...
FLYING SOLAR PANELS en route to Morocco ~ Vlog #22
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 to tear off our solar panels. ...Morocco turns out to be so worth it. Thanks for watching guys. ...
From Daggy Charter Boat to FANCY OCEAN CRUISER Breezing through the Gib Straits! ~ Vlog #21
Thanks for watching guys. If you liked it, please give us a thumbs up and leave a lovely comment. We post every Sunday! So if you’d like to see us every week, why not subscribe. Oceans of love, X&J If you want to help us make these vids better, we ...
18-08_Finally Summer Again (sailing ZERO)
Ahoy, what a great feeling to round Lands End and enter the huge bay of Cabo San Lucas. Of course the commercial circus with tons of jet skies and party boats was swirling around us like flies but Cabo has a few quiet spots as well and we were up to find t...
Converting an Ex-Charter Boat into a Bluewater Cruiser ~ Vlog #20
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 (Spain), we were back into boat life full throttle. Two months to go until we cross the Atlantic with...
4 Naughty Kids Sailing 300 Miles to Ibiza – Straight to DE CLUB ~ Vlog #19
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 Team. The winds were howling which meant two things for us. Jackson got to realise his dream of ...
Send Help! DRIFTING 100 Nautical Miles Out To Sea With Nobody Around But 25 Dolphins ~ Vlog #18
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 time we learnt that motor sailing on a starboard tack is a sucky move. Oh, and that our hand pump (f...
3 Days at Sea That Lead us to Incredible MALTA – Vlog #17
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 country we have been to for marine shops and a week of boat jobs surrounded by its enchanting scenery a...
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