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This time on Distant Shores we deal with currents on the 600 mile passage offshore to the Canary Islands from Portugal. We then sail from Lanzarote to Gran Canaria for the start of the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC) and prepare for the big one - a 3000 ...
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As a liveaboard sailor living on anchor on SV Arianrhod in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary islands in Spain I decided to take 2 foldable portable kayaks and convert them into a sailing foldabl...
In this video, we start off in Las Palmas in Gran Canaria and get on with some boat jobs - including rigging a kicking strap after our vang breaks again, running a third reef in the main sail and redoing our entire bed and mattress set up due to having fou...
Is a rusty, flaky chain really a safety hazard?? Time to find out! Let's cut that baby open and see what's really inside.
Over the last 2 years our chain has become rustier and rustier. It's mainly surface rust, so it poses no real threat to our safety. ...
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We wait in Gran Canaria for a lot of things including Brexit so we can retain our VAT status on our boat as well as visas for Suriname.
We also find ourselves waiting for mech...
On arrival in Grand Canaria, we had to dodge Firefighting Planes whilst also negotiating big container ships and ferries. A raging fire had been going for over 4 days, caused by an 55 year old who was working with a Welding Machine. The blaze forced the ...
We recently bought a new boat, a new model Outremer that is announced at Boot Düsseldorf January 2020. After 1 year on a L39 and almost 3 years on the L52S we now want to make a next step to a performance cat.
The new boat will be delivered in 2021 so we...
A lot of sailing going on as we sail together with @sailingyachteight from Lanzarote via Fuerteventura to marina Las Palmas where the ARC 2019 will start on November 24th.
Just a few days before we start our crossing to the Cape Verdi, we decide to order a new light wind sail. It's a huge sail with 170 sqm.
Luckily the manufacturer of Wingaker sails could manage to bring us a sail to Gran Canaria and has 2 days time to show...
This week we are on our way to La Gomera, Canary Islands
In San Sebastian we meet the guys from the rowing team "Row Row Row our Boat" and find out that there are even crazier people than us. There is actually a rally of people rowing across the Atlantic!...
It's time to set sails to the Canary Islands. It will be our first sailing passage on the Atlantic and the longest trip we made till now.
How will it feel to be on the water for a week? How will we manage the high waves?
Episode 22
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This episode is one that’s close to the heart and therefore took us quite a while to decide whether or not to post. We made a pact at the beginning of our journey to share with you, our loyal subscribers, the good, the bad and the ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Ep108 - 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. I recorded all the Cinematic clips with a Stereo Shotgun microphone so in this episode I will not...
Ep107 - 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. I will show you what it was like to live, and more importantly try to sleep, on a sailboat that n...
Ep106. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we head from the harbour of Las Palmas to start our 3 week, 3000 nautical mile transatlantic crossing to St. Lucia in the Caribbean.
As a sign of good luck we have Dolphins swimming in front of our Bow within ...
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