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Crazy Galapagos Check-In Ep.24
After a trying 9-day passage from Nicaragua, it is time for Gargoyle to check-in to the Galapagos Islands. The requirements for entry are legendary amongst cruisers, especially the need to have a pristine hull inspection. Fail the inspection and you must g...
Bluewater Passage – Sailing from Nicaragua to the Galapagos Islands Ep.23
Gargoyle departed Puesta del Sol on a Friday, 201 days after arriving in Nicaragua, bound for San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands. 9 days and 7 hours later, she and her crew had sailed 1,200 upwind nautical miles through squalls, torrential rains, one apocaly...
The 48 hour Departure Marathon! Ep.22
After 201 days in Nicaragua, thanks to the COVID outbreak, Gargoyle is now about ready to depart for the Galapagos Islands. The FedEx package containing the much-needed chart software as well as extra filters for the watermaker has been cleared by customs ...
Galapagos Departure – Delays. delays, delays! Ep.21
It has been an incredibly busy week as we have run down our extensive checklist to make certain Gargoyle was 100% ready for the 8-day passage to the Galapagos Islands. We have crawled through the lockers and inspected steering cables and exercised thru hul...
Galapagos Checklist Ep.20
After making our decision to head down to the Galapagos Islands for a month of exploration, we now need to get Gargoyle and ourselves ready. Thanks to Javier at Yachting Galapagos, we have a full list of all requirements and we have spent the last two week...
Bluewater Cruising During the Pandemic – Decisions Decisions Decisions Ep.19
We prepared and planned for this journey over many years but like almost everyone, we missed the risk of a global pandemic completely altering our world as we know it. However, we have vowed that rather than hide from the new reality, we are going to embra...
Going Bonkers in the COVID Bubble Ep.18
After sailing over 6,000 nautical miles in the first six months of our journey we have now spent the last 6 months tied to a dock in Nicaragua. COVID-19 has swept the world and just like everyone else back home, we are going a bit bonkers. Lucky for us the...
THE AFTERMATH after 70 days of Exile
We are back. We look back at the trip and see what we could have done better. We also look at what the trip cost us both financially and emotionally. The financial cost was easy, it was very little but the emotional cost keeps going and going and we go thr...
A PIRATE in the NIGHT
A pirate in the night, I think with this episode you just need to watch it....suffice to say that it scared the $h!t out of me and Margarida. And some other stuff happened...just watch it...go on...I dare you... Give it a thumbs up if you liked this epi...
Visiting Plasencia Cigars in Estelí Ep. 17
Ever wonder how they make a perfect cigar?? While Gargoyle’s crew is relaxing at Puesta Del Sol, we decided to check out Estelí, one of the largest areas in Central America for cigar manufacturing. First a 200 km drive to the northern mountain region o...
The Charts are wrong, we can’t find the island
We arrive very early to the region where our charts say there is an island and reef... but we can't find it... the charts are wrong. It takes almost 8 hours to eventually get there with Margarida starving and seasick...you know the drill by now. Find food ...
Stranded and living off the sea
We have to leave Nuevo Cay but we delay it as long as possible in order to get food and stock up. But when we search for another reef it isn't where it is supposed to be on the charts. We have to heave-to and wait for better light but it doesn't look good ...
Survival on the smallest island in the Caribbean
While sailing we have been caught out by the VIRUS and cannot enter any country. We have to somehow make do until the world becomes normal again. So we set sail for a reef in the middle of nowhere, 272 nautical miles off the coast of Nicaragua. We have no ...
Volcano Boarding in Nicaragua Ep. 16
Gargoyle’s crew is relaxing at Puesta Del Sol while waiting for a weather window to move onto Costa Rica and for the crew from Half Moon to arrive. Now Liz and Brian are tied up to the docks we set off on our next adventure. CNN claims this is the #2 t...