Honu YouTube Videos
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Squat Down & Hold Your Breath | Bowing Down to the Bridges of the ICW
Squat down and hold your breath! I don’t know if we have mentioned it before but Honu is a big girl for the ICW. We hit the max in both directions. Our mast is 63.5Ft and our keel is 6.5Ft. The majority of the fixed bridge heights are 65ft at high tide,...
Show me your Monkey 🐒 | Cruising The ICW
Show me your Monkey! What a day of firsts. There is no dipping your toe in the pool for us we dive all in and figure it out as we go. This is the first time we have driven the boat. The first time we have charted and dealt with tides, currents, and sho...
Bahamas or Bust | Racing a Lagoon 56 to the Bahamas
Bahamas or Bust! 🏝 What a wild ride! We learned so much on this trip and we solidified our confidence in the knowledge we have acquired so far. Like anything you study for, it’s super cool when you can put it into practice. I think that is the bigg...
Marooned On A Lagoon | Racing a Lagoon 56 to the Bahamas
Marooned On A Lagoon 📅 You can’t sail on a schedule… We have been told this tag line over and over again and boy did it hold true on this trip. Before we started out on this adventure, we have many stops planned. There was provisioning to do, st...
Checking Off and Checking Out | Hunter Sailboat Refit
Checking Off and Checking Out You know that feeling when you have worked so hard on something and I really mean worked harder than you ever have, and you finally get to see the fruits of you labor? We experienced that feeling this week. It has been 9 w...
New toys, it’s all about the circles 🔆 Refitting Our Hunter Sailboat
It's all about the circles! This week felt a bit like Christmas. We have been impatiently waiting for some very special “wants” to arrive and they have finally made it. Supply issues this past year have made parts orders very trying and we are doing...
A Little Bit of Lube and A LOT of Tugging and Pulling | Refitting Our Hunter Sailboat
We have a new saying on our boat… This will only take about an hour, which means this is a 1 day to 2 day project. The jobs are slowing coming to an end and we can see the North a calling. However, the last couple of jobs seem to be the ones that are ...
Stuffed, Fried & Rippin | Hunter Sailboat Refit
Stuffed, Fried & Rippin Grab your favorite bevy and get ready, cause it’s going to be AWESOME – now take a drink!🧃 You know that moment when you put on an old coat and find $5 in the pocket? Well that how this week kinda went. We had a pretty ...
Hot ‘N’ Horn-e | Hunter Sailboat Refit
Hot ‘N’ Horn-e! 📢 We’ve gone unprotected long enough and we’re getting loud people! The summer heat has finally set in and it’s time to give some reprieve to ourselves and Honu. As you remember from a couple of weeks ago, we finally waxed th...
⚡ A LITTLE TOO MUCH POWER! 🌪 | Hunter Sailboat Refit
A LITTLE TOO MUCH POWER! At what point is it too much or not enough? 🤔 We hit some major ups and downs this week. The energy and adrenaline were all over the map and Mother Nature sure gave us a glimpse of what can happen out there. Honu got a subst...
Grip It and Rip It! | Refitting a Hunter Sailboat
Grip It and Rip It! How slippery is your deck? 🥴 Ours was in rough shape 🙈 Just like everything else on the boat the sun had taken its toll and it was time to spring ourselves from the under belly of our home and start to get the top side up to sn...
Swimming with Hawaiian Sea Turtles off of Waikiki Beach with Captain Mike
Season 8 : Hawaiian Adventures : Episode #208 Hello Friends, On this episode I join one of Captain Mike's snorkel tours off the coast of the world famous Waikiki Beach in Honolulu on Oahu. You can book one of these tours here: https://www.cruisediamond...
TURKS & CAICOS! ARRIVING BY SAILBOAT & EXPLORING BY JEEP!
We sail to the Turks & Caicos and eventually clear in with the dog, Once we clear in we then rent a jeep and explore Providenciales. Get a T-SHIRT(or 3!): https://teespring.com/stores/honu-brand Products we like on our AMAZON STORE: www.amazon.com/...
OUR THORNY PATH BEGINS!
Honu crew takes off on the Thorny Path from George Town, Bahamas! We see a cool whale as we sail to Mayaguana, Bahamas where we wait for the dog paperwork to come through for the Turks & Caicos. Meanwhile we swim with an amazing amount of starfish! G...