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Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Why our Boat is in Real DANGER Right Now (Calico Skies Sailing Ep154)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES It's not the first time we've been here and we know its a danger but this time there was no way to avoid it. We've just sailed over 2,000 mile...
Craziest Sailing Drone Shots we Have EVER Gotten!
We were reminiscing about some of the crazy things we have done while out sailing and running this pass between the ocean and the bank in the Bahamas had to be one of them. We were lucky enough to have a friend with a drone up to capture it all. See the f...
It’s Always a Race When 2 Sailboat’s are Headed in the Same Direction!! (Calico Skies Sailing Ep153)
This weeks video is sponsored by Kamikoto: https://kamikoto.com/CALICOSKIES For $50 off use the code CALICOSKIES This episode begins with a morning spent on anchor in a beautiful spot on Mexico's western coast. It's chock full of sea life - Fish jumping e...
Girls on Dinghies & Sailing Friends ❤️👩🏼❤️👩🏼❤️! (PLUS Delos Circumnavigation Partaayy😋 CSS Ep 151)
We had an absolute blast in Barre de Navidad. The festivities started with Brian of Delos finishing his circumnavigation. We didn't make it off the docks before beers were cracked and the party started. The boys had an absolute blast on the water slide, ma...
The Pacific aka Peaceful Ocean…just the Wind, Water and Waves (Calico Skies Sailing Ep 150)
After what seemed like an eternity of motoring up the coast of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico we finally treated to some sailing on the Pacific Ocean. The experience was certainly worth the wait! We are surrounded by marine life..whales, dolphins, turtl...
Not in Control; The Reason We Question This Life Sometimes (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep. 149)
One thing we get asked ALL the time is, 'What are your plans?', sometimes less pointedly in the following types of ways: 'When are you leaving?' 'How long will you be there?' 'What will you do at XYZ spot?' 'Can I come visit next week? next month? next yea...
After 35,000 miles at sea, this still scares the sh*t out of us! (Calico Skies Sailing, Ep.147)
It's late in the season when we finally depart northern Costa Rica bound for Chiapas, Mexico. We hear that the coast of El Salvador & Nicaragua is known to spawn early season hurricanes as well as house intense squall activity. The squalls we encounter...
From Rocky Anchor Life to Marina BLISS- My first Shower in 96 DAYS 😮 (CS Sailing Ep.146)
This episode begins with a recap of the challenges faced while sailing in Costa Rica. While we loved Costa Rica as a country maybe next we will come back without the boat 🙃. We faced many rolly anchorages, rapidly changing weather conditions, and expens...
The Good, Bad & Ugly of Cruising Life + Why are all the Fish DEAD?? (Calico Skies Sailing Ep.145)
In this life we always say the high are really high and the lows are super low. In this episode we get to experience the whole range. From beautiful Costa Rican anchorages, boat breakages, and an awful case of red tide destroying large population of fish ...
Swimming in a Croc River?!!!! (Calico Skies Sailing Ep144)
Rosetta Stone Limited time offer: $179 from $299 for the Lifetime Subscription!! https://tryrosettastone.com/calicoskiessailing-1 There's a lot of unknowns in our this lifestyle, most of them inconsequential but some potentially resulting in breakage or w...
Dirty, Hot and Miserable 🙃.. sailing the MOST Biologically Diverse Place in the World (Ep143 )
Cruising Costa Rica epitomizes the old saying that cruising is full of high, highs and low, lows. Almost a bipolar existence. We are blown away by the beauty of the Osa Peninsula. Covering an area of just 700 square miles on the southern Pacific coast of C...
Why this life may not be for you 🙃…blasting our car (dinghy) through a 6ft surf break (Ep. 142)
In this weeks episode we set off for our next stop in Costa Rica, the gorgeous Osa Peninsula. This region is known as one of the most bio diverse areas in the entire world. However our alternator has other ideas. We don't know for sure what the issue is bu...
The Authorities Say We Need to Move the Boat But We Can’t! Our Most Stressful Check in EVER (Ep 141)
Checking into Costa Rica on a good day is a challenge..known for its arduous, bureaucratic check in process and an in person boat inspection for pork of all things, not to mention pricey with fees totaling over $500. However for us the bureaucracy was the ...
Ive waited a long time for this..dropping the hook in the PACIFIC for the 1st time (CSS Ep. 140)
The last part of our passage to Isla Parida was super light and we had to motor some but we did manage to eek out some sailing. We experienced our first battery shutdown due to overheating which began the process of installing a blower for our batteries. R...