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Crossing the Sea of Cortez overnight.
In this episode of SmoCo Sailing, we leave Las Cocinas and set sail on a 80-mile overnight passage across the Sea of Cortez to the remote Baja anchorage of San Francisquito.
With steady winds and fast sailing conditions, Cosmo makes great time across the open wa...
From Catalina to San Diego: Calm Seas, Good Sleep & a New Anchorage
In this episode, we leave Catalina Island in the dark of night for a peaceful offshore sail to Mission Bay, San Diego. After weeks of bouncing at anchor, we finally find what we’ve been craving: calm water, warm weather, and uni...
In this episode we reminisce about our first year living aboard, the endless projects, and the mysterious leak that had our bilges flooded for a few months. Finally, we rip the band-aid and quit our jobs as the final step in preparation for taking off from Monterey and starting our life as full-time...
In this episode we flashback to 2023 when we sold all of our furniture (and more) and moved from our 2 bedroom apartment onto our 43 ft sailboat. This was a hectic month with Liya still recovering from ankle surgery, both of us working full-time, traveling for work, and doing military reserve duty p...
In episode 182, we sit down and talk about when we are buying our next boat. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to ask us, so hopefully this answers some questions.
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Moving into our first apartment:
Second Boat:
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We downsize over the last two years to. get small enough to move onto the boat. This is an important step towards leaving the dock for good. We still have upcoming projects to make us off the grid ready before we can leave.
In episode 96 we sit down and share what our boating plans are for 2021. Will we find a liveaboard boat? What boat tours and experiences do we have planned? Watch and find out!
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Episode #9 Scott and Ally of Boating Journey finally moved to their new apartment in DT Seattle after selling our house and downsizing in preparation to live on a boat.
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This video answers the many questions about the pros and cons of making a relationship work on a boat. Some couples return from cruising stronger and closer than ever, while others return and file for divorce. We discuss our personal story as well as some other experiences we've had with cruisi...
Last sail of Season 1 - we arrive to Trinidad, visit Tobago and prepare Aquarius for haul out
We leave Grenada with a bit of fear as in recent past there were cases of piracy in this passage to Trinidad, and happy to arrive safely. We stay in beautiful Marina, meet tremendous people and preparing ...
As we keep moving on our long journey to Trinidad to escape hurricane season in Caribbean we sail to the British Virgin Islands and make a 24 hr sail from Virgin Gorda in BVI to St. Martin. To say the least it was not easy! But we make it and award ourselves with some fun and visit Maho Beach for s...
After 6 weeks of chilling in USVI St. Thomas between Charlotte Amelie and Christmas Bay we say our farewell to USVI with grandiose Carnival parade and amazing snorkel in St. John, where we admire fabulous beach with white sand and turquoise waters
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In this video we tour beautiful Guadeloupe Island with it's amazing beaches and landscapes; good and bad weather, waterfalls, cliffs and turquoise water...
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As we progress learning to sail and having fun while visiting different islands we head to Dominica - Roseau and Prince Rupert's Bay and Guadeloupe - Pointe-A-Pitre and Saint Francois.
P.s. I know the sound is "bumpy" and I promise to work on this more in our next video.
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We experience our windiest sail so far! 30-35 knots steady on the beam between Gran Canaria and La Gomera and we are being tested by the acceleration zones. As we are closing in on La Gomera the wind is gusting to 40 knots, and we have to enter the marina in darkness. Before we untied the lines we m...
In this episode we explore the island of Porto Santo by scooter, boat and foot. We also leave our mark on it before we sail to Madeira. We spend a couple of days at anchor outside the beautiful beach of Porto Santo. Just relaxing and having a great time in the sun and in the water!
We are a Swedish...
How is life aboard a sailboat during an offshore passage? In episode 14 you get to follow us along as we leave Lisbon for a 490 Nm downwind sail to the Madeira archipelago in the Atlantic. The voyage takes us 75 hours and we arrive to the wonderful island of Porto Santo.
We are a Swedish couple wh...
One of the songs that we used in this video has been blocked worldwide and we had to delete it to make the video available again. They also deleted the voice overs and our talking so sorry for no sound in the first few minutes (00:00-03:16).
We prepare RAN for the 490 Nm sail to the Madeira archipe...
We finally arrive to Cascais outside Lisbon! Joaquim, one of our Patrons takes us on a ride through the surroundings and up to the natural park of Sintra. After some days in Cascais we move the boat to Lisbon to get some city life.
We are a Swedish couple who wanted a different kind of life. So we...
In this episode we make the new installments on the rig so we can continue our sail to Portugal. While waiting for our sails to be ready, we make a visit to Vigo, Galicia's biggest city. Johan finish the installments on the mast and when everything is ready we sail the 25 nm to Portugal and arr...
We broke the boom! First major setback but probably not the last. In this episode we spend a couple of days in Camariñas in Galicia, Spain and then we sail towards Lisbon, Portugal but don't get very far. We broach with the boat outside Cape Finisterre and get an accidental jib on the Hoyt boom...
In this episode we are in La Coruña, Spain. During our two week stay we get to explore the city. We also get our gennaker sail set up on our new furler and hoist it for the first time. We then continue our sail south and sail along the coast of death (Costa da morte) to Muxía, a small fishing villa...
It is time to cross the Bay of Biscay! But first we sail from Guernsey to Camaret Sur Mer in Brittany, France. During our three day stay we explore the natural park around Camaret Sur Mer and prepare for the crossing. On the Bay of Biscay we meet a lot of dolphins and on the first night around 50 pi...
After cruising two larger sailboats, Motu Iti has been chosen as a new home because her smaller size makes her easier to handle and take care of. Here is a video discussing the best aspects of downsizing to a smaller sailboat!
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