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Replacing the Headstay on a Westsail 42 Sailboat | #5 | DrakeParagon Sailing Season 1
Replacing the headstay wire inside the Profurl roller furler. If you enjoyed this video, then give it a thumbs up, make a comment, share it, or support this documentary on Patreon or via Paypal with the links below. Patreon: Check out our Patreon page fo...
Cruising Lealea Q&A #5 – Storm Tactics.
We had several questions about storm tactics. We try to answer them in this video. For more information we recommend "The Storm Tactics Handbook" by Lin and Larry Pardey. Here is a link http://astore.amazon.com/lealea-20/detail/1929214472 Also on video ht...
Cruising Lealea-Q&A #4 – Daily routine at sea
Several people asked about our daily routine at sea. Here is a link to an "At sea" video on the same subject, Day 5 of the Hawaii to Alaska voyage http://youtu.be/-fJX-RV3jJY For more sailing adventures see our other Playlists: "Honolulu: The Beginning" ...
Cruising Lealea Q&A #3 – Daily maintenance
Pavel wanted to know how we keep a clean boat. "Good crew!" is our enthusiastic answer; That, and a regular routine of cleaning and maintenance. We learned that sailing as crew on Endeavour, a three masted wooden square rigger out of Sidney, Australia. F...
Cruising Lealea Q&A #2 – Cruising guides for Alaska
David is planning a trip up the inside passage to Alaska and wanted to know what cruising guides we recommend.: Links S.E. guides in description. Don Douglass' Exploring SE Alaska Dixon Entrance to Skagway http://astore.amazon.com/lealea-20/detail/193231...
Turnbuckles| #4 | DrakeParagon Sailing Season 1
Disassembling, cleaning, and greasing sailboat rigging turnbuckles. If you enjoyed this video, then give it a thumbs up, make a comment, share it, or support this documentary on Patreon or via Paypal with the links below. Patreon: Check out our Patreon p...
Cruising Lealea Q&A #1 – Why do you make videos?
Have a question for us about life aboard a small cruising sailboat? Leave your question in a comment and we will answer it in a future video. Our first video answers why we started making videos on our first long passage sailing from Hawaii to Neah Bay, ...
Cruising Lealea in Alaska-Real Time Update: 19 Jan 2014
Just now looking out the window with a cup of coffee;The lighting was just right so Laura stepped outside with a camera to catch the sunlight on the snow capped peaks across Frederick Sound and couldn't resist feeding a carrot to the doe and fawn grazing i...
Aerial Greenland – Quadcopter crash and recovery in Greenland (DJI Phantom 1, Fatshark FPV)
We are moving our aerial videos to a new channel called 'ParagonSkies' where we will publish aerial videos of the places we have sailed to. If you have enjoyed our aerial videos then please check our new aerial channel 'ParagonSkies', and thank you for sa...
The Sailing Adventures – The 1st Annual DrakeParagon Review – Part 1
To our viewers, thank you so much for sailing with us. We love reading your comments! We're absolutely thrilled about the videos we've been working on for 2014. Wishing you a Happy New Year! If you are enjoying our videos, then consider helping us w...
Cabin Tour of Liveaboard Sailboat Southern Cross, Part 4 (Dickerson 41)
In the last episode of our Southern Cross boat tour series, we look at Southern Cross' autopilot, steering quadrant, emergency tiller, and SCUBA equipment. Don and D also tell about using Southern Cross as a dive boat in Bonaire, using their Hookah to scr...
Cabin Tour of Liveaboard Sailboat Southern Cross, Part 3 (Dickerson 41)
Part 3 of a guided tour of the cabin of Don and D's Dickerson 41 cruising sailboat 'Southern Cross.' We look at Southern Cross' engine room and aft cabin, and meet Joe Clay, the shipwright who has been working on Southern Cross in Oriental, North Carolin...
Cabin Tour of Liveaboard Sailboat Southern Cross, Part 2 (Dickerson 41)
Part 2 of a guided tour of the cabin of Don and D's Dickerson 41 cruising sailboat 'Southern Cross.' We look at Southern Cross' deck and cabin top construction, the remodeling of the forward head, anchor chain storage, the electrical panel, the navigatio...
Cabin Tour of Liveaboard Sailboat Southern Cross a Dickerson 41, Part 1 | #3 | DrakeParagon Sailing
Part 1 of a guided tour of the cabin of Don and D's Dickerson 41 cruising sailboat 'Southern Cross.' We look at Southern Cross' beautiful dragon carving, the galley, massive storage lockers, structural members of the wood hull, custom salon table, sea be...