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What’s new and improved on the Xquisite X5 Plus. Guided Tour.
In this Guided Tour, we learn about the improvements in weight savings, performance and upgraded features on the new Xquisite X5 Plus. Xquisite Yachts is constantly making upgrades to their line of boats. For the latest new additions and features, you ca...
Was It Worth Sailing ALL THIS WAY? – Classic Cat Renovation | SailAway 248
WHY did we SAIL THIS FAR? We FINALLY got to GRENADA after 2000 miles and MANY difficulties. Now that we're here, we're still struggling with the generator among many other things. But we're also enjoying the community and a multitude of other benefits o...
RESTORING Our 30-Year-Old 48′ CATAMARAN – Are We IGNORING PROBLEMS? | SailAway 247
Have we FIXED the DEAD MOTOR? Does our GENERATOR RUN YET? We show you WHERE WE ARE in our PROJECT LIST and explain why a CATAMARAN RESTORATION LIST while LIVING ABOARD isn't a linear thing. We also show you exactly WHY we were so HELL BENT on sailing 2000...
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING – Leopard 45 Catamaran Boat Tour (S5 E9 Barefoot Travels)
In this week's episode we give you a boat tour of our friends Leopard 45 that was hit by lightning and what systems were affected! Thanks Shane and Tanya for sharing your story with us. Our new theme song is an original song written by Brian Dale a talen...
FORGET the JOURNEY – IT IS About The DESTINATION! | SailAway 246
We JUST completed a TOUGH UPWIND SAIL to MARTINIQUE from ST. CROIX. We're now a ONE DAY HOP from completing a 4000-MILE ROUND TRIP to GRENADA. We LOVE Martinique, but when a DOWNWIND weather window appears almost as soon as we arrive, we know we've gotta...
SAILING and BAILING in the CARIBBEAN SEA | SailAway 245
We discover HIGH WATER in our ENGINE ROOM on a ROUGH and WINDY OCEAN PASSAGE. We pump out BUCKETS and continue on, unsure of where the leak is. But this is just one of many challenges passage making presents. We talk about the multiple layers of TRUST t...
TRUSTING Our GUT – Passage To Martinique | SailAway 244
SHIFTY WEATHER FORECASTS leave us APPREHENSIVE about out 3-DAY PASSAGE to MARTINIQUE. We could end up in NO MAN'S LAND trying to beat our way back to the WINDWARD ISLANDS. A half day into our voyage, we start getting an UNEASY feeling and find ourselves ...
TWO DEAD GENERATORS and our LITHIUM are DYING | SailAway 243
Not just ONE, but BOTH our GENERATORS STOP WORKING as we're ABOUT TO LEAVE for ST. MARTIN less than 2 WEEKS after ERIC's HOSPITAL STAY. With limited CHARGING our LITHIUM BATTERIES start to DIE. It's a scramble to get ANY GENERATOR working well enough to ...
He’s HOSPITALIZED – She’s ALONE | SailAway 242
EMERGENCY ROOM then 5 DAYS in the HOSPITAL. In the CARIBBEAN, with NO INSURANCE for the area, it's a NIGHTMARE for SAILORS. WHAT HAPPENED and WHAT WILL WE DO NOW. Enjoy!! And be sure to SUBSCRIBE for WEEKLY CONTENT EVERY SUNDAY! Cheers!! Thanks for wa...
They Told Us NOT to DO IT – We Didn’t Listen | SailAway 241
1700 MILES UPWIND from the US to the VIRGIN ISLANDS in JUNE with only ONE FUNCTIONING MOTOR and the other JUST FIXED? It's a plan we NEVER STRAYED FROM for various reasons. While the vast majority of viewers were incredibly supportive, a SMALL FEW were V...
We’re FINALLY DONE – 6 Months Later | SailAway 240
There have been FIXES, FAILURES, UPGRADES, and FUN since we SAILED 2000 MILES to Charleston over 6 months ago. 1500 ADDITIONAL MILES later, we're in SAN JUAN and FINALLY finishing up a LIFE CHANGING project we started back in Charleston. And the NEW PROJ...
We’re HAPPY It DIED HERE – Stuck In SAN JUAN | SailAway 239
It feels like a MIRACLE that we're BACK in the CARIBBEAN, but already we have ANOTHER EQUIPMENT FAILURE - one that we HAVE TO FIX before we leave here. But what an AWESOME PLACE to be stuck! San Juan has been a HUGE FAVORITE of ours since our first visit...
PLANNING For The UNPREDICTABLE – 500 Miles from Bahamas to St. Thomas | SailAway 238
It's 500 MILES UPWIND and AGAINST CURRENT from Mayaguana to the VIRGIN ISLANDS, with an EVER CHANGING WEATHER FORECAST at the WRONG TIME OF YEAR. It's our LAST LEG to finally return to the CARIBBEAN after a VERY long year. Whatever the wind brings us, we...
We’re GOING the WRONG WAY | SailAway 237
We're in the MIDDLE OF THE BAHAMAS and FIGHTING our way EAST before making the BIG LEAP to the VIRGIN ISLANDS and ultimately GRENADA before HURRICANES start marching across the Atlantic. But the winds are NOT agreeing with us and we seem to be going the W...