While we wait for Nina´s blood test, we change the oil filter. After all is fine, we start our way to Sitia, Crete to arrive there before the Sirocco.
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See us this time how we spend a couple of days on Kastellorizou and sail to Rhodes. Unfortunately we had to drive the complete trip against the wind and arrived nearly out of diesel in Rhodes.
Big thanks to Jon Tessier for his song Like the sun
Visit hi...
Leaving Koufinisi with minor storm damage towards the beautiful Amorgos. Very nice atmosphere on the island in general and at 3Porto in Chora de Amorgos in particular. After Amorgos we have a beautiful day of sailing to the almost deserted island of Levith...
Feels like summer out of the wind on the front deck going south from Naxos to the Small Cyclades. All alone in a small bay on Iraklea and the next day to the harbour of Koufonisi where we are taken by surprise by a sudden 50 knots
See us this time how we finish our maintenance work to get Seatramp ready for sailing back into Greek waters.
Thanks to The Cultbusters for their song all because of you, you can find them here:
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Easy cruising from Syros to the famous island Mykonos where we anchor all alone again in Ormos Kolpos just south of Mykonos town. Good protection for the strong south winds and an interesting dinghy ride to the harbour. After Mykonos we head for Naxos, pas...
In this episode we find out the winter tent and Carl gets to work putting it up. It is a great piece of equipment as it allows us to use the cockpit the whole way through the winter period. We also take delivery of our new GoPro6 and give it a bit of a tes...
There’s no sailing in this blog but we did get to explore the snow-capped mountains that we could see from our boat in Lefkas Marina.
We hired a car and headed for the hills - an easy journey as there were hardly any cars on the road, so we wound our w...
Continuing eastwards from Loutra on Kythnos to Syros. Ermoupoli is a lively city, also this early in the season. Still hardly any other sailors though.
At long last we get to relaunch our boat, a Bavaria 47 named Dream. A few nervous moments as the lift picks the boat up and carries it to the slipway. It's a few days before Christmas in this episode so we have a walk up into town to see the festivity prep...
It's clear that we've been away for a couple of months, as we have to get the hang of it again. A couple of unwanted jibes, a new steering thingie for the dinghy and nothing a small bandage or gel coat repair can't fix... In this interactive 360 video we s...
Even without the summertime Meltemi there's still a lot of wind in the Cyclades with 20 to over 30 knots almost every day. The season in Greece is still starting up, so plenty of room everywhere.
The team at shipyard Planaco has taken very good care of Greatcircle. Together with Hains of our Dutch Lagoon dealer Nautisch Kwartier we arrive in Aegina for the final preparations for the new season.
Testing the Garmin VIRB 360 during the launch of Greatcircle from the Planaco warf on Aegina. Partially shot with Garmin VIRB 360 underneath the Phantom 4.
This Friday, instead of a Fix it we are doing a Friends on Friday. We go aboard our friends, Stefan and Emma's boat, SV Pintail, a Moody 47 just before they leave the marina to start their 2018 summer cruise. Hopefully we will meet up with them later in th...
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This Fix it Friday, we replace our domestic service batterieson our Bavaria 47 yacht. Two of the original batteries started to fail so we decide to replace all four. The two which were okay have now been put in our camper van.
It is always good practice to...
After problems with the boat and stormy weather our plans for travel and adventure change and we end up spending the winter months in Lefkas, Greece. We take up some new hobbies like horse riding, knitting(!), hiking and guitar and get to know our fellow ...
In this episode we get used to marina life, whats happening around the area and boat jobs that need doing. We take a trip to a neighbouring village, Elounda, to visit the chandlers (a man cave) and get the sea cocks changed on the boat.
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...so far - it's actually the only crashes that i've found in the videos i've already made. We'll have to start pushing it harder this year!
Which is your favourite - let's put it to the vote in the comments.
Visit the new online store - totaljoyrider.co...
On this episode of Fix it Friday, Jen manages to block the sink so we have to dismantle the plumbing! Jen has to give it a good blow to clear the pipework.
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This Fix it Friday, we take out the dinghy from its winter storage, get it inflated and launched and then get the outboard fixed on. Looks like we are on fire.
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We meet up with some friends who charter a yacht for the week and sail around the Southern Ionian, exploring caves on Meganisi and beaches on Ithaca Island. We're hit by another storm and go against our off grid principles by sheltering in a cafe with a b...
In this second Fix it Friday, the boat gets a clean and we put up the winter cockpit tent.
Don't forget, these videos are for fun and we don't imply that this is the way it should be done lol! Just the way we do it, or don't ;)
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It's been a long time coming but we finally arrive at our boat / new home. We arrive at Agios Nikolaus in Crete. We get to check out the controls for the electrics and gas etc and come across a couple of issues but nothing we can't resolve.
At last we get...
Welcome to a new section we are adding to our channel. Fix it Friday. Each week we will add a short video of a small job we have had to do on the boat. It's for entertainment only so if you copy any of the ways we do things its at your risk lol! We will st...
It´s getting colder so we have to hurry a little bit!
This time we checked out of Greece, sailed a few days in Turkey and start our way to Cyprus. And of course, celebrated Captain´s Birthday
Thanks to YIFY for her song Morning sun, follow her on http...
At last it's time to go. We set off on our long journey down to the boat. Join us along the way as we travel across Europe, drive through the tunnel underneath Mont Blanc, board two ferries and arrive in Crete.
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We head south through the Lefkas Canal and into the Southern Ionion to meet up with some friends chartering a yacht from our old employer - Neilson Active Holidays. We arrived early - they arrived late, so we had some fun on the beach until they arrived.
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Well having spent 2 weeks and 2 days, despite being told we would never do it, we finish the conversion and get ready to leave.
All this so we can drive down to our boat in Crete.
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