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Goodbye Distant Shores III – Big Tides Sailing Pacific Northwest
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Goodbye Distant Shores III – Big Tides Sailing Pacific Northwest
Our Southerly 480 sailboat, Distant Shores III, arrives by yacht transport ship in the Pacific Northwest to be received by her new owners. Paul flies to Seattle WA to do the official handover and say goodbye to Distant Shores III. It is Paul's first time s...
Final Cruise – Sailing San Blas Islands & Epsilon Anchor Test | Distant Shores
Distant Shores TV
Final Cruise – Sailing San Blas Islands & Epsilon Anchor Test | Distant Shores
In this, our final cruise aboard our Southerly 480 sailboat, we test out the new Lewmar Epsilon anchor while we revisit the San Blas Islands of Panama, home of the Guna tribes, Panama’s indigenous people who still live in traditional ways. Even though it...
Sailing Solo on a 57ft Yacht AND we get a new Mainsail.
Sailing Aequus
Sailing Solo on a 57ft Yacht AND we get a new Mainsail.
In this video i leave Philippa in Bonaire and do a solo sail back to Curacao to pick up a new Elvstrom mainsail for Aequus. It's about a 80 mile round trip which gives me a great opportunity to see how our Bavaria C57 can be sailed single handed. When i ...
Boat Maintenance – Rig Service part 2 – Hallberg Rassy 54 Cloudy Bay – Oct-Nov 2020 – Season20 Ep22
Sail Cloudy Bay
Boat Maintenance – Rig Service part 2 – Hallberg Rassy 54 Cloudy Bay – Oct-Nov 2020 – Season20 Ep22
Series of videos which covers removing the Selden rig to replace the standing rigging and service all the rig systems, plus some other winter maintenance aspects. This part 2 covers dismantling the foresail furler motor, removing the in-mast furling system...
Top Tips – Mainsail and Rig Trim
Distant Shores TV
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 Strai...
New Sailboat Commissioning
Distant Shores TV
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. •••••••••••••••••••••••...
How Sails are Made – A visit to the Elvstrom Sails Loft
Distant Shores TV
How Sails are Made – A visit to the Elvstrom Sails Loft
Our brand new EPEX laminated sails by Elvstrøm Sails were shipped from the sails loft in Denmark this week and will soon adorn our new Southerly 480 sailboat! Tour the sail loft and see how laminated sails are made. We decided to go with these laminated s...
Highs and Lows of Ocean Sailing – Transatlantic on a Catamaran Part 2
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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...