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Launching Next Week & Camera Gear
Distant Shores III, our new Southerly 480, is scheduled to launch next week! We announce the news and show you the camera equipment we have used to document our sailing adventures for print and television as well as the new cameras we’ll be using on our ...
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 ...
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 wh...
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 ...
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 fro...
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 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 f...
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. T...
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 p...
Trans-Atlantic Sailing Voyage (#2). Preparing for the passage. Ep104
In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, I show you my first full day in Las Palmas in the Spanish Islands of Gran Canaria. This is the main island that most Sailors who are planning to cross the Atlantic (from East to West) stop at to provision and get prep...
Highs and Lows of Ocean Sailing – Transatlantic on a Catamaran Part 2
Our 3,000-mile transatlantic crossing continues aboard the Bluewater 50 catamaran, “Zao”. In Part 2, we set up the spinnaker off the Cabo Verde Islands to begin a downwind run to the Caribbean, climb the mast underway to do repairs, go for a swim mid-A...
🔴 Live. Upcoming Transatlantic Sailing Trip explained. Q&A from viewers
This was recorded live to explain the upcoming trip where I will be sailing a 50' Discovery Catamaran across the Atlantic Ocean with Paul and Sheryl Shard from Distant Shores, from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands to St Lucia. That sailing trip is suppose...
Voyage Planning – Distant Shores Q&A
How to Sail to Your Dream Destination and Keep Everyone Happy. We discuss our plans for the voyage "Year 1" of sailing our new Distant Shores III. 02:45 Boat Show Plans Southampton, Annapolis, Toronto, Dusseldorf 03:50 What is your dream destination? 05:...
Transatlantic Crossing Q&A
Live Q&A (recorded on Facebook) Want to come along on a Distant Shores passage? http://www.distantshores.ca/sail-away/sail-away-schedule/ 04:05 Predictwind Weather forecasts and routing 09:43 Best time to head west 11:06 Crossing with Anthony & D...![HURRICANE SURVIVAL TACTICS (I Stayed on the boat in HAITI) — Sailing Uma [Step 54]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/52vu7bbvqC0/maxresdefault.webp)