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Episode 233 – Naked Sailors!
Naked Sailor this week guys! Anyone else out there cook naked? we have lots of fun this week, free diving, hiking, sailing, exploring and hanging out on our beloved Pickle... Welcome aboard! Thank you to our wonderful patrons, you are really helping to ma...
Episode 232 – The Italian Boatyard Wrecked Our Boat!!!!!
This week guys we will show you all the damage the Italian Boat Yard in Crotone did to our beloved Pickle! It's shocking, these guys are major scammers and bodge artists!!! And we are left thousands out of pocket and with major works to now fix! Pickle is ...
Episode 226 – Chris is Leaving the Sailing Pickle Family!
This week guys, in this fabulous Sardinian anchorage, Chris and Beau go on a very long hike to find some data. We do some cool little sails to new anchorages checking out these amazing turquoise waters, Chris LEAVES the Pickle family!!!! And I finally get ...
Episode 223 – Big Stormy Sails and exploring Taormina, Sicily!
After an extremely poop week with crappy boatyard work, we have sailed on leaving Beautiful Italy behind and having a busy, windy sail over to Sicily. Sadly our boat work is failing already as we had feared would happen, but we don't let that stop us going...
Episode 222 – Hour Special! Noisy Italian BoatYard, Engine Service and Horrifying Bodged Repairs!
We are stuck in this Italian boat yard in Crotone for 3 weeks!!! it was meant to be 10 days to get the repairs done, for all those scratches and cracks caused from the big boat which dragged onto us last year! Every job which we were promised was delayed a...
Ep 221 – Night Sails and Engine failure!
Busy week as ever! We get the last couple of essential jobs done before night sailing to another part of Italy so we can get Pickle lifted out the water to repair the damage from the crash last year in Turkey! But as ever we have a minor engine problem, as...
Episode 220 – New Sailing Season & New Sailing Pickle Family Adventures!
As usual we are in a Pickle, we have all sorts to sort out in the Uk and then head back to our boat Pickle, travelling across Europe again, enjoying the beautiful scenery and stopping off at Verona for a once in a life time peek at Juliets balcony, (as Bea...
Episode 219 – Sailing Life – Planes, Trains and Automobiles….. And Jet boats!! Isles of Scilly.
We travel back to the UK from Pickle after getting her all snug and winterised in our winter marina in Italy. Then we embark on a crazy trip to the Isles of Scilly, which involves train journeys, a the night riviera sleeper train, buses, planes, taxis and ...
Episode 218 – Washing Wet Weather Gear and Winterising the Boat!
Winterising jobs are top priority this week! We made it to our winter marina and start to do the hundreds of jobs to ready Pickle for the winter when Chris has to leave, the car has broken down and the Italian garage is useless so we end up doing some craz...
Episode 217 – Last Sail of the Season and we Lose our Anchor!
After last weeks episode where we get our quotes for repairs and have a knees up, we are finally ready to leave Crotone, in the dark, sailing onto Roccella along the boot of Italy. We have a final amazing sunrise at sea get ourselves in some heavy weather ...
Episode 216- Engine Failure, Crushed Boats and a Drunk Captain!
Well yet again we're in a Pickle! After the last months constant storm sailing we finally had engine failure in last weeks episode, Thankfully engine stripping and rebuilds is becoming something we're quite good at! So this week guys Chris is yet again pul...
Episode 215 – Winter Sailing from Kefalonia, Greece to Italy and Dodging Storms!
We're doing it guys!! We're just bloody well doing it! There is no two day window to cross from Greece to Italy so we have to just go for it, we leave in one storm and arrive in another, throw in engine failure at the end and you get the jist of this mad, ...