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Is This The Best “Go Anywhere” Monohull? We Think So | Discovery 48 Tour & Review
Welcome to our dockside tour and review of the Discovery 48 (or is it 480?). This episode we take a look at the boat that was supposed to be RR2- we always intended to upgrade to a bigger Southerly, and this really is the perfect monohull for us. If only they were still being built! I emailed Disco...
Space Discovery – a 50ft catamaran for monohull sailors?
Join Toby on a lively sail and tour of this Discovery Bluewater 50, one of the few catamarans available from a traditional monohull yard. And no they don't all come decorated with dogs - this boat is customised for the new owner of the shipyard ► Become a FREE SUBSCRIBER to Yachting World'...
Sailing Across the Atlantic on a Discovery 67 (Part 2) – Ep 36 Monday Never Sailing
In this second part of our Atlantic crossing we leave Portugal and sail downwind to the Caribbean. The days are calm and peaceful (albeit rolling) and it looks like we will make it to Martinique in record time. That is, until we receive a mayday call and have to turn around to perform a rescue at se...
On the Beach Overnight – We Were Playing the Tides | Distant Shores
We are exploring the Exuma Island group in the Bahamas. Such amazing water colours! We find a shallow place where we can put our Southerly 480 on the sand and try beaching her, then wait for low tide to dry out. We've also been testing out the Varifold 4-blade folding propeller for a year now,...
Discovery 50 Catamaran Review 2021 | Our Search For The Perfect Catamaran.
Welcome to another of our Catamaran reviews. This week we look at the Discovery 50. An amazing catamaran from this high end UK yacht builder. Let us know your thoughts, and don't forget to vote. The app is going great guns and we now have almost 1500 reviews, making it the largest collection of...
Distant Shores Meets SV Delos
This time on Distant Shores we run our boat up on the beach in Antigua. We get invited to a pirate birthday party, change the zinc on our Varifold propeller and meet up with YouTubers aboard SV Delos. Drone footage beaching Distant Shores courtesy of SV Delos Additional Footage Courtesy SV Delos Ad...
Atlantic Crossing – Living the Dream
0:50 - Anchoring trouble in Lanzarote 4:05 - Setting sail from Las Palmas, Gran Canaria 6:46 - Arrival in Mindelo, Cape Verde Islands 9:33 - Catching Mahi Mahi 10:48 - Chafe protection 13:23 - Setting up the downwind rig 18:00 - Landfall in Antigua Dreaming of crossing an ocean someday? In this vid...
Top Tips – Mainsail and Rig Trim
Top tips on sailing well with an in-mast furling mainsail and how to tune your rig for best performance. Sail trim expert and prize-winning racing sailor, Karl-Otto Book of Elvstrǿm Sails, joins us aboard our new Southerly 480 for a test sail in the Strait of Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediter...
Sailboat Generator Replacement
How can you get enough power for your sailboat? We have been doing practical testing for a new power generation system and show you how it works on our new Southerly 480 Distant Shores III. Also featured in this video: Triskel Marine: Elvstrøm Sails: Seldén Mast: Discovery Yachts Group / Southe...
Southerly 480 Sailing South
This time on Distant Shores we head south. We visit the Channel Islands, sail amid dolphins who lend a hand with a propellor drama - and give you a tour of the sea berths aboard Distant Shores III Own the whole Distant Shores collection: All 130 full half-hour episodes of the Distant Shores Sail...
Spring Line Docking Techniques
⛵️ Sail Away Weeks with Paul and Sheryl Shard 🏝 Join Paul and Sheryl for a sailing experience in the world’s top cruising destinations. Get an introduction to the sailing lifestyle, build new skills, make new like-minded friends! Cabins available for British Virgin Islands, February 24- May 4, 2023 ...
New Sailboat Commissioning
Getting all the systems up and running is our priority this week. Discovery Yachts need to perform an incline test and we film this. Next time we'll sail up the River Thames to London. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Principal photography by Paul and Sheryl Shard. ••••••...
Launching in the Snow
Our new Southerly 480 sailboat is ready for the water! Distant Shores III is transported from the shipyard to Saxon Wharf to splash creating havoc with the traffic in downtown Southampton. Then it snows! The mast is stepped on the boat and Paul carries out a traditional Coin Ceremony for good luck o...
Sailing a 50′ Catamaran across the Atlantic and What I Learned. I’m a guest speaker at NSC. Ep117.
I was asked to be a guest speaker at my old sailing club (The Nepean Sailing Club) to talk about my Transatlantic Sailing voyage on a 50' Catamaran. It took 22 days to cross the Ocean and I will show you, through video clips taken from the 12 episodes I created for the passage, what I experie...
Goodbye Distant Shores II
A retrospective of the voyages we made aboard Distant Shores II, the Southerly 49 sailboat we owned for 7 years, and the story of what happened to her during Hurricane Irma in Sint Maarten / St. Martin. Information on insurance coverage in the hurricane belt. 0:37 History of Distant Shores II 4:13 ...
Transatlantic Passage #13. Catch a Wahoo and Land Ho! Arrive in St Lucia after 22 days at sea.
Ep116 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 19 to the end of the passage (Day 22). We catch a Wahoo. We finally get some wind and really see how fast this Catamaran can really sail when we have decent winds and we make Landfall...
Transatlantic Passage #12. Catch a Mahi Mahi. A satellite burns up in the night sky for us to see.
Ep115 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 15 to 18 of the passage. We finally get some wind. We catch a Mahi Mahi and we watch a Satellite or other space junk go flaming across the night sky for us to watch in awe. It was the...
Transatlantic Passage #11. Swimming In The Middle Of The Atlantic and Sushi from our 1st Fish.
Ep114 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 13 and 14 of the passage. The wind dies so much we have to drift in the middle of the Ocean. We take this opportunity to swim 800 miles from the closest land and where the depth is 70...
Transatlantic Passage #10. Dolphins visit and Thanks Giving Dinner at Sea. Ep113
Ep113 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We cover days 9 through 12 of the passage. You will see that a bird flies into our boat and hits me in the head. We have a massive pod of dolphins swim at our bow for longer than I have ever seen a...
T.P. #9. Mavic Pro drone footage of a moving sailboat? Scary trying to land it back onboard!
Ep112 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. We really wanted to get some epic drone footage of the Bluewater 50 Catamaran under sail in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Taking off and getting the footage was easy. I have hand caught the Mav...
Transatlantic Passage #8. 1000 Miles down. New Crew? Spinnaker Sailing for the first time.
Ep111 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. In this episode we cross the 1000 mile mark and we are boarded by a bird that really wanted to be our new crew. He just wouldn't take no for and answer. The winds were so light that our usual w...
Transatlantic Passage #7. Get to know the Crew. Distant Shores, Sailing Banyan. Expectations Met?
Ep110. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty we continue our Transatlantic Passage Series. We are 1/3 of the way across the Atlantic Ocean. I interview the crew and see what their thoughts are so far. Did they have concerns before starting this 3 week passage? What were their expectations? Have...
Transatlantic Sailing Passage #6. 1/3 across. Highlights. Is the Passage meeting my expectations?
Ep109 - In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic Sailing Passage series. I am taking you along with me in this VLOG style episode. By the end of this episode we are done Day 6 of the passage, which should have been around 1/3 of the way across. I interviewed the crew and...