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Ep 92 | Pizza and a Pint in Chicago, Route 66 Road Trip USA
E92 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. We arrive in Chicago after three flights from Tapachula, Mexico. After checking out the town we make a beeline for a well known pizza joint and brewery, The Piece and sample a few ales. We meet our new home...
Ep 91 | A Close Encounter with a Sea Shepherd, Sailing Nutshell
E91 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. Magnus manages to wrangle a tour of Sea Shepherd which came in to the marina well after dark and frightened the lot of us who were casually enjoying far too many marguerites on a neighbouring yacht. We get ...
Ep 90 | Anchor Chain Antics, Sailing Nutshell
E90 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. Life goes on in the little town of Puerto Madero and we are getting used to the everyday routine. We are busy in the boat yard with plenty of boat jobs to do. Magnus make plans for the cover for the cockpi...
Ep 89 | Unusual Valentine’s Day Dinner, Sailing Nutshell
E89 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. More boat jobs at the boatyard. Magnus tackles the bilges and Wendy continues with removing the old varnish. A lovely Valentine’s Dinner out in the town with unusual food! Thank you all for watching and ...
Ep 88 | A Poke Around the Hills & Boat Jobs, Sailing Nutshell
E88 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. Wendy takes a break away from the boatyard and heads up into the Mexican hills. She discovers a coffee roaster and also checks out a beautiful old building which was the house for a local coffee plantation. ...
Ep 87 | Scared of Heights and Up a Mast, Sailing Nutshell
E87 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. Magnus begins the task of installing Intranet on Nutshell and in the process Wendy hoists him up the mast. Did I mention that he is very scared of heights. Nutshell gets hauled out and moved to her position...
Ep 86 | Mexico! Night Time Arrival, Guns at the Border, Sailing Nutshell
E86 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. It’s night time and with nowhere safe to anchor outside of the port, we have no choice but to head in. Nutshell gets pushed sideways by the surf and it is a constant battle to keep her from heading towards...
Ep 85 | Three Countries in One Day, Sailing Nutshell
E85 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. After a rough night at sea we gently make our way towards the Mexican border, passing Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. We encounter many pangas along the way and Magnus saves us from being wiped out by ...
Ep 84 | Checking Out of Costa Rica… Twice, Sailing Nutshell
E84 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. We head into shore to begin the process of checking out of Costa Rica. We find iguanas on tucked away in the trees on the beach at Playa Panama. After much toing and froing we finally manage to check out an...
Ep 83 | Angry Goats Brewery Tour, Costa Rica, Sailing Nutshell
Ep 83 | Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. After a relatively good landing with little Peanut on the beach, we head off to the Angry Goats Brewery to meet up with the Chief Brewer. John shows us around the brewery which is situated under the Coc...
Ep 82 | Horrific Gale Force Winds and the Rush for a Safe Haven, Sailing Nutshell
E82 Weekly Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. We encounter horrific gale force winds of 38 knots (yes, I checked in my sailing book) so we head for Bahia Bellina for the night. We sample a local pizza and attempt, yet again, to upload a vlog wi...
Ep 81 | Boobies on the Starboard Bow, Sailing Nutshell
E81 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. Magnus tackles the never ending boat jobs and gets more of them ticked off the list. We check out the little town of Jimenez and have our first breakfast out. The beautiful booby birds visit us on the boat...
Ep 80 | Checking In to Costa Rica, Sailing Nutshell
E80 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. We arrive in the beautiful bay of Golfito in Costa Rica and embark on the process of checking in. We catch up with the cruisers which we met at Santa Catalina and make new friends. Peanut just makes it ove...
Ep 79 | Boca Chica and the Big Smoke, Sailing Nutshell
E79 Vlog of Life in a Nutshell sailing travels. We leave the deep anchorage at Isla Cavada and head off on a lovely day sail to Boca Chica. More boat jobs, cleaning and scraping off varnish. The engine gets yet more attention from Magnus. Rocks everywhe...