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My Catamaran Broke Apart 100 Miles From Hawaii
About 100 miles off Kona, pounding waves broke my catamaran’s rear main beam, leaving the starboard hull hanging from the deck. Keeping the boat together meant repeated trips into the black water beneath it, using rope and winches to lash a broken home back together. Full Catamaran Video: Excerpt...
Why Is the Rudder in Front of the Propeller?
Moving the engines aft creates more interior space, but it also places the rudders ahead of the propellers. I would test low-speed maneuvering on each engine separately because two engines are not true redundancy if one failure leaves the boat circling. Full Stream: 📗 Get My Book:
When Grenada Stopped Being Safe
For decades, cruisers gathered in Grenada because it sat just below the hurricane box that shaped many marine insurance policies. In July 2024, Hurricane Beryl flattened Carriacou and turned Tyrell Bay into a boat graveyard, shattering the industry's faith in that safe zone. Full Video: 📗 Ge...
Can a Wave Snap a Ship in Half?
A ship's hull behaves like one enormous beam, bending through hogging and sagging as wave crests and troughs support different sections. Push that steel beyond what it can bear and the hull can fracture, a failure that overwhelmingly strikes long, heavily loaded tankers and freighters. Full Vi...
The 282-Foot Yacht With an Incredible Past
Finished in an Italian warship yard in 1927, this 282-foot yacht began as "Flying Cloud". She then passed from an English duke, to a Guinness heir, and Aristotle Onassis before Windjammer finally made her its flagship in 1969. Full Video: 📗 Get My Book:
The Hurricane You Cannot Dodge
A hurricane does not steer itself; larger wind patterns high above it, called steering currents, carry it like a cork in a river. When those currents weaken, the storm can stall or wander, making its path dangerously unpredictable. Full Video: 📗 Get My Book:
A Great Deal or a $200,000 Disaster?
This 60 year old Sparkman & Stephens yacht has an incredible pedigree, a valuable mast, and a recently reduced asking price. The aluminum hull could still be viable or require a $200,000 replating job, making a complete hull-thickness survey essential before buying it. Full Stream: 📗 Get My B...
The Window Design That Made These Boats Leak
Cooper sailboats can be good performers, but their large acrylic windows were not always engineered with enough frame overlap. Once the adhesive begins to fail, water can quickly enter the boat and damage the surrounding interior. It does not necessarily make the boat a bad purchase, but it creates ...
A Great Bluewater Boat With a Leaky Reputation
This Robert Harris design was built by Ta Yang in Taiwan and earned a reputation as a stout bluewater cruiser. Unfortunately, the original teak decks also earned these boats the nickname “Leaky Tikis.” This example has lost its teak deck and received several interior repairs, but a buyer still needs...
119 Days Lost at Sea – How it Began
John Glennie named the Rose-Noëlle after a young woman he met in Tahiti and lost in a tragic plane crash. Sixteen years later, the boat capsized, beginning an extraordinary 119-day survival story. Full Video: 📗 Get My Book:
SSL776 ~ First Overnight Test after Refit.. How did She perform?
After almost a year on the hard, Sophisticated Lady is back where she belongs — offshore, under full sail, heading somewhere extraordinary. We pulled anchor from the stunning Rosario Islands of Colombia at dawn and pointed the bow toward one of the most legendary sailing destinations on the planet:...
How He Survived a Tropical Storm at Sea
How to survive a tropical storm at sea: A true sailing survival story. If you’ve ever wanted to sail offshore, you NEED TO WATCH THIS. It may save your life. For deeper training on how to handle the ocean, get your copy of Be The Captain: Johnny was 20 years old and eager for his first Atlantic c...
OUR FIRST 1,000 MILE PASSAGE, KILLER WHALES AND A STOWAWAY #atlanticcrossing #luxuryyachtlife
🌊 Our First 1,000-Mile Atlantic Passage: Killer Whales, a Stowaway & No Land in Sight After months of cruising through the Caribbean, it’s finally time for the biggest adventure we’ve undertaken yet as liveabord sailors; the first leg of our Atlantic crossing aboard our Kadey Krogen 55, MOONFLE...
Day 11 ATLANTIC CROSSING! Plus a quick tour of the upper deck #trawlerlife #luxuryyachtlife
🌊 DAILY ATLANTIC CROSSING UPDATES 🌊 Join us aboard our Kadey Krogen 55 Expedition trawler as we cross the Atlantic Ocean from Bermuda to the Azores with our dog, Gypsy. These short daily trawler-life updates document the real experience of long-distance passagemaking, ocean cruising, and living abo...
LAND at Last – Arriving in COLOMBIA After a WILD Passage | Day 15
The final stretch to Colombia… and after everything this passage threw at us, the wind completely disappears. After battling storms, big seas, a shredded headsail, and days offshore, we spend the entire night drifting slowly toward Cartagena at just 2–3 knots. If we’d had enough fuel, we could have...
Wet, Exhausted & Hanging On – 50 Knot Caribbean Storm | Day 13 & 14
Day 13 & 14 of our offshore passage from the USA to Colombia… After days at sea, the weather forecast suddenly shifts for the worse. What was meant to be manageable conditions turns into a long-lasting storm stretching across the entire Caribbean Sea — leaving us with nowhere to run and no way...
The Raw Reality of Offshore Sailing – Torn Sail, No Fuel & Wild Weather | Day 12
Day 12 of our sail from the USA to South America… and this is where the crossing starts to get rough. After finally reaching stronger winds out in the Caribbean Sea, the conditions quickly deteriorate and our headsail completely shreds offshore. With over 30 knots of wind, building swell, and no fu...
The Last Glimpse of Land Before South America | Day 11
Day 11 of our sail from the USA to South America… and today feels like a real turning point. The last glimpse of land disappears behind us as we head further offshore with nothing but ocean ahead. After barely any wind and carefully watching our fuel levels, we finally start to feel the conditions ...
This sailing technique saved my butt (Why does nobody teach this?)
1,800 miles from the nearest road, my autopilot exploded into pieces on my lap. Three and a half days into an 18-day crossing from Ecuador to Easter Island, on a light catamaran with small rudders and no displacement, the wheel pilot's ring snapped, the belt cut itself in four places, and the b...
Crossing the Gulf Stream & Fishing for Dinner | Day 1
After leaving the Gulf Stream behind, we finally arrive on the Bahama Bank — and the ocean greets us with something completely unexpected. Glass-off conditions. The water turns into a mirror as far as we can see, leaving us with no wind and a long day and night of motoring across the shallow turqu...
Eventually, Life in the Pacific Felt Normal
Eventually, life in the Pacific started to feel normal. After more than a week at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean, the routines of offshore life slowly began to settle in. Night watches, sail changes, repairs, fishing, cooking, exhaustion, and family life all became part of our everyday rhythm somew...
The Atlantic Crossing Begins! Live from our boat before we cross to Bermuda #boatlife #trawlerlife
⚓ We’re going LIVE the night before we leave for Bermuda — the first leg of our Atlantic crossing aboard our Kadey Krogen Expedition trawler. Sorry it is such bad quality - we have bandwidth limitations! After months of island hopping through the Caribbean, it’s finally time to prepare for a 5-day ...
The Night I Almost Lost the Keel (and Why I Quit Deliveries)
In 2014, I delivered a Beneteau First 47.7 from the Bahamas to Cartagena. Somewhere in the Caribbean, 150 miles offshore, I found myself ankle-deep in water, crew vacuuming the bilge in the dark, batteries dead, no GPS, no autopilot. I didn't know at the time how close we were to losing the kee...