Watch Sailing & Boating Adventures Around the World tagged “Beneteau oceanis 40”

How do you prepare for passage? You asked, we answer #2

This week, we answer a question we receive from Robert: How much preparation do you do for each passage, and do you have assigned roles onboard? Ahead of our slightly over 100 nautical miles sail between Cascais near Lisbon in Portugal, and Lagos at the ...

Sep 18, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:18:12

Sailing to Islas Cíes: the best beach in the World. #21

The Islas CÍes was named by The Guardian “Top 1 of 10 beaches in the World”. We set sail from Muros towards the CÍes Islands to see for ourselves if this beach lives up to the title. The sail there is gorgeous: 22 knots of downwind, a smooth ride t...

Sep 11, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:15:54

Captain Nervous in the Spanish fog. #20

The Northwestern coast of Spain is prone to fog and this week, we head right into it on our way from La Coruña to Islas Cíes. After a couple of weeks spent away from the oat on a business trip, Ryan is back at the boat and we can finally continue our j...

Sep 04, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:18:35

Meet Polar Seal! A complete tour of our Beneteau Oceanis 40, 2 cabins layout, from 2007 #19

This week, I’m giving you a full tour and a bit of a review of our sailboat: Polar Seal, a Beneteau Oceanis 40, 2 Cabins layout (also called the owner’s version) from 2007. Polar Seal isn't only our boat, she is our home since we became liveaboards in ...

Aug 28, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:25:35

One boat: we’re sailing. Two boats: we’re racing!!! #18

When you are one boat, you are sailing. When you are two boats, you are racing. Guys, we are making friends!!! This week, we make landfall from crossing Biscay in Galicia, and bay-hop from Ria del Barqueiro to Cedeira. We are having a great time with the...

Aug 21, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:18:32

🇫🇷French Escale! (in French, with subtitles) #16

Life is short: Meet someone on Tinder, Quit your job, Sell your apartment, Buy a boat and go sail the world!!! ——— This week, by popular demand, the episode is in French! (With English subtitles, of course). We make an escale in Bretagne, near ...

Aug 07, 2018
Language: FR
Play Time: 00:12:34

Sleepless in the English Channel #14

We knew the passage between the North Sea and the English Channel would be a challenge: we got our money worth. We left IJmuiden and set sail towards Cherbourg, knowing that the narrowest and shallowest part of the passage would be done by night. We pla...

Jul 24, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:14:32

Two (pseudo) Swedish sailors crash the party at the Kieler Week #12

It all starts with an Instagram comment we received right before we started sailing towards Kiel, that said “oh, you’ll arrive in Kiel right in time for the Kieler Woche”. We did not know what the Kiel week was, and we were too busy preparing the sa...

Jul 03, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:11:14

How we are adjusting to life onboard our sailboat – Part 1: Space #11

WE ARE TAKING YOUR QUESTIONS!!! Ask us anything you've ever wondered about deciding to quit our jobs to go on a sailing adventure with no prior experience of boats or sailing, how it is to live as a sailing nomad, or anything related to boat life in genera...

Jun 26, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:12:53

Sailing around the World: Day One. #10

It took three years. Three years from the day Ryan texted me with that crazy idea: why not quit our jobs, buy a boat and go sail the world, and see where the winds take us! We had no idea how to sail, knew nothing about boats, and had only been dating fo...

Jun 13, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:12:29

Saying Goodbye to our lives in Stockholm. #9

Every new beginning come from new beginnings end! One week to departure, we are saying goodbye to the life we built here in Sweden. About 10 years ago, Ryan and I left our home countries to come and settle in a land that offered us professional opportuniti...

Jun 04, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:15:02

We’re moving on our sailboat. This is how it feels. #8

10 days to the move, we are getting the boat ready for us to move onboard! I was secretly hoping that Ryan would have put the boat back in order while I was away, sailing across the North Sea. Nope! It had a lot of work left to do… Coming home, the r...

May 22, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:14:48

What launching our sailboat wrecked. #6 (My nerves. It was my nerves)

But not our boat, thankfully! Got a couple of close calls though.... Anyways, after two months spent working non-stop on Polar Seal, it was time to launch her! The problem was… Ryan was very close to forget mentioning that he had removed the anodes be...

May 01, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:11:39

Shine little sailboat, shine! #5

This week, Ryan is in Singapore for work and I tried to wax the hull of Polar Seal by myself! Polar Seal hadn’t been waxed in at least 3 years. Her gelcoat started to show some signs of fatigue, in the form of big dark stripes running down the deck. Th...

Apr 24, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:10:34

Episode 1: Hi, we are Ryan and Sophie, and we quit our startup jobs to go sail the World.

Two months to departure! In this episode, I tell about how we went from being full-time employees to quitting our jobs, buying a sailboat and leaving Stockholm, Sweden, to go sail the world. Ryan and I met on Tinder in March 2015, and hit it off immedia...

Mar 28, 2018
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:10:29

Boat naming ceremony! (I let our first video live, because we all start somewhere) [1]

Join us as we pray Poseidon to give our sailboat luck after we changed her name! (Bonus renaming tips at the end of the video...) A year ago, we bought a Beneteau Oceanis 40 from 2007. The boat was named after her late owner, and as we were giving our boa...

Jul 13, 2017
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:03:11

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