In Episode 55, we meeting with Ben and Maria to plan our British Virgin Islands charter itinerary.
This week, we (Scott and Ally) who own Our Happy Day a 2002 Bayliner 4087 Aft Cabin M/Y, share how we survive Seattle's rainy and dreary winter. We head to ...
Join us aboard our Leopard 45 sailing catamaran as we begin our 1200 nautical mile journey home from The British Virgin Islands (BVI) to Florida. This is our first sailing video. We promise to get better about shaky video and wind noise. Please bare with u...
Sunsail BVI: Ep. 1 - The Contest
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In 2011, Sunsail wanted to showcase it's British Virgin Islands charter fleet. So it ran a contest among its former BVI charter customers. Th...
We were told by many people to avoid the BVIs after two Category 5 Hurricanes leveled the BVIs just a year before - but we had so many lasting memories from our previous cruise that we had to share this special place with our boys. Despite visible signs of...
Two devastating hurricanes - Hurricanes Irma and Maria - hit the British Virgin Islands in 2017. In this video, we return to sail the BVI and get an update on recovery efforts before making a fabulous 3-day offshore passage to the Turks and Caicos.
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WE sail off to one of the best cruising destinations in the world. The BVI's!
After sailing our longest trip yet (80 nautical miles) from Saint Marteen we first arrive to Virgin Gorda check in and then sail to Tortola to pick up my best friend Elle and h...
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We loved sailing in the British Virgin Islands! So much that we decided to showcase our top 10 favorite things to do!
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You know what they say, once you go Cat, you never go back! But is that true in our case? Hmmm...In this episode, we abandon Satori in the British Virgin Islands for a state of the art Catamaran.
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- Meet Jeff and ...
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We are still in the BVIs trying to take care of some much needed boat work. We get a new sea strainer so we don’t have to risk sucking up a jelly fish into the engine anymore, purchase an actual German flag as we are still using that cloth we colored wit...
We head off on our 80+ nautical mile crossing from Road Bay, Anguilla to the Spanish Town, Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. We had almost no wind on the way over, but the 10 minutes of dolphins accompanying us more than made up for not being able to s...
We take delivery of Clarity in Sint Maarten and begin the refit before heading north to start our adventures in the British Virgin and US Virgin Islands.
Music is of course the one and only Cranberries with Dolores O'Riordan's (RIP) ghostly vocals. I slow...
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This video reports on the Friends of the BVI Brunch at the 2018 U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, MD. We hear from the BVI Director of Tourism and reps from the 3 major BVI chartering companies about hurricane recovery efforts over the past year and the cur...
We spend out last few days in Indonesia at Turtle Beach in Belitung which looks a lot like the baths at virgin gorda in the BVI only with better sand!
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We're making some ground east again! After a short venture on land at Spanish Town in BVI's we head off for the small isolated island of Saba in the Lesser Antilles... As every sailor knows however, the weather will almost always do the opposite to what yo...
Could a Tayana Vancouver 42 ever be a racer cruiser? Could she win Gold in Sydney to Hobart? We put her to the test in Virgin Gorda, BVI to see whether she could beat the nimble racer cruiser, a 37 Seidelmann.
Following the eventful race, we check out the...
We make our way further east in British Virgin Islands, visiting Peter Island and then being hit with torrential rain in Road Town. Thankfully the rain passed and we had a fantastic sail across to Virgin Gorda, home to 'The Baths', a formation of rock boul...
Ok, we weren't exactly hit by treasure (we wish!)... but it rhymed.
We arrive in Jost van Dyke and check into the British Virgin Islands. After a couple of days of relaxing in the MOST beautiful waters we've seen yet we head over to Norman Island, famous...
In this two-part series, we show you what it's like sailing the British Virgin Islands. In part 1, we show you Spanish Town on Virgin Gorda, the famous geological attraction called The Baths. We then sail over to Leverick Bay to catch a pirate singing sho...
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And yes, this episode finds us on a brand new Balance catamaran, out for a day of fun with Chris and Chrystal from LTD Sailing in Grenada, along with our f...
In this episode we visit St. Martin and do some maintaining at Hilma. We are also sailing from the east to the west of the beautiful British Virgin Islands.
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Introducing María, Benji and Julia. The crew on Parlay grows to 5 as they prepare to finally leave Nanny Cay, British Virgin Islands, after months of hard work. María recalls life in the BVI's and getting ready to leave the marina.
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Welcome to our real-time Sunday update, hope you all are having a great weekend, and we are sitting on a beautiful beach in the British Virgin Islands...
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Today we take our friends from SV DELOS out for some fun, starting off with some drone racing lessons where they discover there is a much different side to flying drones that don't have computers and GPS to do 90% of the ...
This is first glimpse of a small fraction of the footage we've been accumulating in the hurricane zones to document the recovery progress in the affected islands. We stopped in Dominica first on our way north through the zone and spent an entire week walk...
The debauchery continues with SV DELOS crew, SSL, and DRENCHED DIVING! This day we go for a beautiful sail on the South coast of Grenada as we move to Secret Harbour in Mt Hartman Bay.. lots of fun along the way, and DELOS Crew learns what a Full Moon by ...
Part 2 of our SSL meet-up with SV DELOS series finds us welcoming Brian and Brady aboard SOPHISTICATED LADY to present them with the new Grenada flag we picked up for them to sport on DELOS... the original plan for the first day was to go diving, but timin...
The one many of you have been waiting for, SSL meets SV DELOS! Yes the DELOS crew came up to meet SSL in Grenada this season, and we had so much fun hanging out with Brian, Brady, Karen, and Alex that somehow we ended up spending 6 weeks sailing around a...
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Hope you guys enjoy, this is the 2nd of 3 weddings we did with Bill and Lori for their Valentine's wedding in Paradise aboard 'Sophisticated Lady'... Next episode you'll also meet some very special guests arriving that yo...
We begin settling in to the cruising lifestyle. Bayona is a charming town with lots to do, so we get to it, taking a walking tour and also visiting the castle. This posting is more about the town and less about sailing. We'll alternate episodes between get...
Today we are thrilled to be a part of the announcement that the BVI is now open for business after Hurricane Irma. This video is a partnership with us (Monday Never), Virgin Motor Yachts (https://www.facebook.com/virginmotoryachts/) and Aristocat Charters ...
HURRICANE IRMA is definitely taking her toll and destroying everything in her path. This update features some of the first aerials and images I was able to find on social media of the affected areas, including Tortola in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), ...
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