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Mysterious Gift From a Stranger… 🎁 | Ep.6
The reality of leaving Antibes starts to kick in and we start saying goodbye to land life as we finish up getting the boat fully ready to set sail. We treat our teak decks with Semco, we receive a beautiful random gift from a passing swimmer, we do a final...
One Life – We Bought a Sailboat! – Episode 1
We are Brooke and Gary, a couple in our 30's that were burned out of the 9 to 5 career grind and decided to make a big change. Follow along as we buy a sailboat and prepare to explore the world with this crazy One Life we are given! Want to help support o...![Detailed Interior Tour of Our Floating Home (Part 1) – New Leopard 45 Catamaran Walkthrough [Ep.15]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/Ya1uC18acPU/maxresdefault.webp)
Detailed Interior Tour of Our Floating Home (Part 1) – New Leopard 45 Catamaran Walkthrough [Ep.15]
The selection of which brand sailing catamaran you’ll choose to sail the world is a big decision usually based on the criteria of safety, comfort and speed. Capable of holding over a ton of fresh water and more than 5 months supply of food (definitely n...
DISASTER AT SEA: Our Pacific crossing dreams are over | Part 1/3
Here is part 1 of a 2 part series showing the sequence of events that lead to SV Parlay having to go back to the shipyard. As we were sailing along, the rigging when totally slack, and we knew something was damaged internally. What we were to find was extr...
Not Sleeping to Keep our Boat off the Rocks (Exhausted) | Ep.5
We’re still hanging around Antibes on the French Riviera in this episode. We enjoy having some friends come to visit, and have a surprise when we see a dolphin hanging out in our anchorage! Captain Lars has a sleepless night keeping the boat off some roc...
Dinghy Crashes, Rain Storms & Hidden Forests | Ep.4
In this video, we continue living on anchor around Antibes, jumping from anchorage to anchorage to escape the swell and we run some errands on mainland. We treat our cockpit teak with Semco to protect it, Alex learns to use the dinghy outboard, we visit th...
Yay! Lockdown is OVER – Time to Sail | Ep.3
In this video, we take a break and enjoy our new life on anchor just off the French Riviera, in the Lérins Islands. We explore the nearby island, enjoy our new turquoise water backyard and get some jobs done. :) ----------------------- ABOUT US: Hel...
OUR DINGHY FLIPS UPSIDE DOWN IN OVERHEAD SURF!! | Episode 77
In this weeks episode, we sail to a place called Playa Venao in Panama, to surf and have a good time, but end up having a nightmare when our dinghy drags its anchor and ends up flipping in the surf. We scramble to save it, and end up with it on the beach i...
Distant Shores Live Q&A August 2020
Topic: Buying, Building and Selling a Boat. Big announcement today about future cruising plans for the Distant Shores crew!
OUR FIRST OFFSHORE PASSAGE | Sailing our catamaran from Fort Lauderdale to Charleston
We are running from a hurricane, and headed into some beautiful sailing conditions. Charles and I make our way to Charleston with some help from our AMAZING captain Josh. Having never done an offshore passage before, we were shocked at the preparation, b...
We Escape the Marina… FOREVER?! Our First Days on Anchor | Ep.2
We make our escape from the marina once we hear lockdown is lifted! We rush to get the boat ready to leave, finishing off critical projects for living autonomously off-grid. After a massive provision shop we set sail and start living on anchor full time in...
RACING, ROPE SWINGS and RUM in a WORLD OF OUR OWN!! | Corona Cronicles | Part 9
Watch part 1 of the CORONA CHRONICLES HERE! https://youtu.be/jf519zLD0QU We had a friendly race with another Lagoon 450 catamaran while we continued sailing in the pacific! We keep exploring the beauty of Las Perlas Islands in Panama and having fun togeth...
A STORM IS ON THE WAY | Rushing to get our sailing catamaran ready for our first passage
We finally got to move the boat to a marina where we are able to live on it - thanks to the help of our amazing delivery captain! But as soon as we arrive at the marina, we are confronted with a tropical storm brewing off the coast threatening to upgrade t...
Buying an Old Sailboat to Sail Around the World (Hard Work)! | Ep.1
We buy an old sailboat and spend months working hard to fix it up during lockdown in the South of France. We live in the marina for 4 months working on refitting the boat to get our tiny home ready to sail full time. We take on the project of renovating ou...