Impi's crossing from Cape Town South Africa to Fortaleza Brazil. We had high winds for the first week and did not take the usual route via St Helena. We arrived in Brazil after 21 days at sea.
The seas are getting up a bit but the wind is still cooperating. Lealea is sailing a reach before following seas and slowly but surely eating the miles with the auto-pilot steering.
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Sailing between Antigua and Barbuda we navigate a narrow channel and get close to the reefs. We have a swing keel on our Southerly 42 so we can reduce our draft to less than 3 feet and go through shallow water.
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Our Albin Vega Velocir needs new interior paint because the original is pretty rough! Here's how we prepped for painting-- sanding with a rotary sander, chiseling, dremel cracks, fill cracks with g-flex epoxy, vacuum dust, clean dust and surfaces with spo...
We installed a new Nicro solar vent aboard Albin Vega Velocir after one (of two) stopped working. These vents have been great for us and got us through our Bahamas trip! We need as much ventilation as we can get, and frequently patrol nooks and crannies ...
Mooring Mediterranean-style stern to the dock in Greece. This is an excerpt from the Distant Shores sailing adventure television series.
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After cruising two larger sailboats, Motu Iti has been chosen as a new home because her smaller size makes her easier to handle and take care of. Here is a video discussing the best aspects of downsizing to a smaller sailboat!
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The Nature's Head has been a great solution to rid ourselves of stinky holding tanks, repairing valves and finding pump-outs. Even better, being ecologically friendly on the boat has become effortless. Here, Motu Iti talks about using the Nature's Head!
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This is the start of a new series called 'Boatie Bits' that Iv'e been wanting to do sometime. Every year I take lots of footage based around my local marine environment that I don't use. I decided it was time and that I had enough interesting video to ma...
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A minimally edited morning Cruiser's Net in the Abacos, Bahamas on January 28, 2013.
Listen to the community of locals and boaters!
Note: A recording of the VHF broadcast, not a typical video.
The Dolphins came back again today and this time we got some underwater video. We were hoping for a day of sunshine but the fog closed in in the afternoon.
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Drama at the start of the 2012 Rolex Sydney Hobart. Newly re-built Super-Maxi WILD THING, Grant Wharington is excluded form the race with 3 hours to the start. Wild Oats XI leads the fleet out of the heads.
BEARING IN MIND... This was shot on a Canon Powershot SX30is camera, not one of our professional cameras...
We saw a faint 3-masted monstrosity on the horizon sailing towards the cut into the channel of North Sound, Virgin Gorda. Looking closer with the b...
Recording visible surface trash in the North Pacific.
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We start out on Union Island on the reef at Happy Island, setting sail for the turquoise waters of the Tobago Cays in the Grenadines! We are joined by our next crewmate Natalia from Poland as she arrives by private sailboat at Mayreau... Now we have an i...
The girls get their first sailing lesson today as we travel from one Grenadines Island to the next! Soon our last crewmate Natalia will arrive and we'll be setting sail for more of the Windward Islands of the Caribbean and into the Leewards. Along the wa...
We were visited by a news crew yesterday. Apparently, in our absence over the summer, they had come down to cover a story on Nazer, the man who looks after Millie The Cat when we are in the UK. They returned for a follow-up so sometime soon you should see ...
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So you always wondered what it was like living aboard a sailboat in the Caribbean? Well now is your chance! Come aboard 'Sophisticated Lady' as we arrive in St Vincent to meet our team leader Juliana as she arrives by air from Brazil. Once onboard we re...
Welcome aboard our 2nd crewmate Katie, arriving from Puerto Rico! Katie meets us in Union Island, just in time for Happy Hour drinks at Happy Island on Newlands Reef! Next day we set sail for the beautiful island of Bequia to do a bit of exploring while ...
The Plymouth all-weather Lifeboat 'Sybil Mullen Glover' at sea in a full force 10 gale.
I wasn't on board but filmed the guys as they left the mooring.
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Today we depart Grenada for the last time this season. We had a great summer with many friends in the area, and many thanks to Grenada for keeping us safe during another hurricane season!
Our first crew for this set of SIRENS OF SAILING is Alice from Can...
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