Well it was our annual trip to Southampton Boat Show and of course we stayed in one of our favourite places in the UK, Poole Quay, Dorset.
We had a great weekend meeting up with some of our Patrons and You Tube followers on Friday night, Saturday at the B...
This episode we anchor up in the Cairns river put on our sailboat and get our new boom tent, plus start provisioning for our ocean crossing. Taj does something he hasn't done for a very long time.
Big love the Catalpa Crew
Lee, Sara, Taj and Bella
Chee...
Getting our boat ready to live on! Lots to do as to make this lifestyle transition. Kate and I have been working hard to make the boat nice, cleaning, buying things for the boat, constant moving of objects back and forth. But I don't think it will be that ...
We come across beautiful sailing country with red dirt, aqua waters, so so many fish, and navigate through uncharted waters! Wow it gets a bit nerve racking when your going into shallow areas and navigating through sand banks and river mouths that ends up ...
Join us in this episode as we get back from Greece and get the house ready to put up for sale. See a really fast result and follow us as we get ready with the legal stuff.
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Well here's part 2 of the boat survey. This time the boat is up on the hard and has all the ancillaries checked, electronics, hull, rigging etc.
The following day we hire a car and do a bit of exploring and finish off with some skinny dipping in a secluded...
This episode we fly back to Crete to have the boat survey done. Pt.1 is done on the water. We also give you a short tour around the marina of Agios Nikolaus, Crete.
Thanks to those of you who have sent in a short clip of the jig, but we need some more so p...
So we flew out to Crete a few days ago to take our first view of the boat we have been looking at, a Bavaria 47. Here's our views and where we go from here.
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Hey guys this episode you find out wether Lee lands his fish and we arrive at Mast Head Island.
Big love the Catalpa Crew
Lee, Sara, Taj and Bella
Cheers for watching and have an epic day!
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This episode is a recap to camera of our thoughts over the last couple of weeks of our sailing trip. We discuss the ups and the downs over a a couple of glasses of rum :)
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This week we sail our way east in the British Virgin Islands. Stopping at some amazing places along the way, like Sandy Cay and Cane Garden Bay. It finally feels like all the hard work is paying off. We even get to practice an improve man overboard drill, ...
So after feeling really down because of our email from the broker we decided not to go head. We get an email the following morning..we had got it all wrong..happy days again!
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In this extra video we talk about a boat we have found, establishing a price with the owner and arranging a viewing. Then disappointment!
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This episode is about our water maker :-)
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Lee, Sara, Taj and Bella
Cheers for watching and have an epic day!
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Culebrita is a small Puerto Rican island 20 miles East of PR. We spent a few days venturing around and even took a nice salted bath before sailing to St Thomas.
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So our journey continues. We get caught out by some unexpected sudden strong winds and sea states, and while we managed it, it caught Jenny off guard somewhat and due to lack of sleep from a rough night before got her quite upset, which isn't like her. She...
In this step, we finally get to fix our bow pulpit thanks to Luis, our new hero! He picked us up, drove us back to San Juan and spent 2 days helping us put Uma's bow back together. With that done, it was time to weigh anchor and set sail for Culebra.
If ...
We completed our Dayskipper practical last episode so were allowed to continue the next 9 days on our own. We met up with our friends, Kevin and Dee from S/V Kejstral and spent our time sailing to nice anchorages around the Ionian. We sailed down to Zakynt...
This episode we go out to the Ionian in Greece to take our Day Skipper practical. At the end of the week our friends meet up with us from S/V Kejstral, Kevin and Dee.
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We visit our a couple of our best friends, Glyn and Julie who now live in Guadalest, Spain. We go out on their Macgregor 26 yacht for a sail from the marina near Altea. We visit a couple of local markets near Benidorm and visit the Old Town in Benidorm.
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Diesel heaters are effective heat sources on a liveaboard yacht, but they do need to be started properly. If you have too much fuel in the heater before you light it, you will have to deal with the heater "running away" where the excess fuel causes the hea...
At last, we have bought our drone. Here we have our very first flight along with our first longer flight test, filmed with our new canon g7x mkii camera. An expensive last few days. We have some new equipment for our sailing adventures. We haven't featured...
This week we visited the beautiful city of Amsterdam. We took our friends to celebrate their birthday. We have been several times but it was an eye opening first for them! We have kept a nautical theme to the video by including a canal boat trip around the...
Join us in episode 13 as we have camera failure at the boat show, Jenny takes her Dayskipper Theory exam and a catch up on whats been happening over the winter.
We also meet up with Kevin & Dee from SV Kejstral, who join us for a meal at our house. htt...
Join us on part 4 of our yacht charter. We sit down and talk to you about our experiences over the week on the yacht charter on the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36. No sailing action in this one, but hopefully you'll find it useful.
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Here is part 3 of our Atlantic trip and in this episode we give a brief tour of the interior of the yacht we chartered, the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36. We really liked the boat and would consider one of these if we weren't planning to live full time. Because...
Join us on part 2 of our yacht charter. We step aboard a Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 36 for the week along with Simon and Scott.
Scott succumbs to a bit of seasickness on our first day on the water. We make our way up to Salcombe marina where we spend the night o...
Four of us charter a yacht from Devon Sailing based in Plymouth. This episode documents our trip down to Plymouth and arriving and getting our supplies for the trip.
This charter is to get Jen's minimum sea miles in for the practical course we will be taki...
Following on from our visit to the boat show, we spend the next couple of days visiting the places we used to holiday when our kids were younger.
We have a trip to the beach and stumble across a naturist beach, so when in Rome!!!
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We take a visit down to Southampton for the 2016 Boat Show.
We meet up with the crew of S/V Patience Paul & Lucy, have a look at some new boats and pick ourselves up some offshore sailing jackets.
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In this episode we pay another visit to our local sailing club and get out on the boat. The wind was blowing a steady force 3 with gusts up to 4 & 5. This was the strongest wind Jenny had helmed in but did a great job. We had 2 reefs in the main and re...
We continue with some practical training out on the water. It was another great day, weather wise with some nice gusts of wind coming through. We find ourselves with a pack of racing Lasers bearing down on us while we are hove to and have to make a quick e...
We had a drive up to our sailing club today and got out for a few hours on the boat. A great way to unwind and relieve the stresses. We arrived half an hour before the safety boat was about to go for an hours lunch so we had to sit about on the mooring til...
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