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Our Top 10 Essentials List to Have BEFORE Sailing into Indonesia – All Learned from Experience
In this video, we share 10 essential items you need before sailing into Indonesia based on our experience. These include important navigation tools, cleaning supplies, travel documents and gear, personal care items, cash, alcohol, and prescription medicati...
How to Create Your Own Charts for OpenCPN: A Step-by-Step Guide
Getting charts for OpenCPN can be a bit of a pain. Not to fear though, as in this OpenCPN tutorial, we're going to walk through all the steps needed for you to create your own charts. And best of all? All the tools we'll use are free! We'll start by ex...
OpenCPN Plugins: My 5 Favorites
If you've been following along with our OpenCPN series, you know how powerful and versatile this navigation software can be. But did you know that you can enhance your OpenCPN experience even further by adding plugins? In this video, I'm going to share wit...
The EASIEST Way to Get OpenCPN AIS & NMEA Data
In our continuing OpenCPN tutorial series, we're going to show how you can easily get AIS and NMEA data into OpenCPN. We use the wifi network from our Vesper Marine AIS, but we'll talk about various alternatives and show HOW to setup the proper network co...
OpenCPN Part 2 – Basic Planning & Navigation
Next up in our series on OpenCPN, the free chartplotter alternative, is how we use the program for basic navigation and planning. We'll cover the following: 0:38 - Measuring Distances 2:43 - Querying Objects in ENC/Vector Charts 4:14 - How to Drop Waypoi...
OpenCPN Basics – The FREE Chartplotter Program
OpenCPN is a FREE program you can use for planning sailing routes, or you can get more in-depth and use it as a complete chart plotter. It is incredibly powerful, and yes, completely FREE! We use OpenCPN all the time aboard Starry Horizons so it was the ...
Giving channel way to the BIG ones & the navigation systems we run / Sailing Aquarius RAW
Early morning leaving Penang, Malaysia. It was a bit stressful as there's quite shallow waters and big chances of local fisherman setting up fishing nets. The chances even gets bigger as we have to give way to the big cruise ship and leave the channel. We...
Ep. 36 – Side jobs and JAX exploring while we wait for parts!
While we wait 4 weeks for our sail drive parts to arrive, we take care of some smaller tasks that need to be done on Full Send before we splash back into the water. We also explore a little around the area visiting Fort Caroline National Monument, watching...
Towards North Pacific, late in the season with countless squalls in Wallis. Ep 41 Hilma Sailing
We were not yet done with the Pacific Ocean and therefor we decided to change our course towards Wallis, followed by the northern route - Tuvalu, Kiribati, Marshall Islands and finally Federated states of Micronesia.. But that’s for later episodes. :) ...
1 Year aboard! Q&A Re-do PART I / Sailing Aquarius
We reposting our 1 year live aboard Q&A that we recorded LIVE. Since it was our first (and probably only LIVE) recording it was wayyy to long and had technical glitches, but I believe it also had great information. To make all things easier I divided i...
Sailing To The Land Down Under – AGAIN
Hi All ! Catamaran Impi is sailing the world for the past 6 years now and in this video we share our passage from New Caledonia to Australia for a SECOND visit. It is strange to think that I never wanted to sail to Australia in the first place, and yet it...
Sailing overnight down the Bay, sculling into the slip
A vlog entry on sailing south down the Chesapeake Bay; installing a cheap (and easy) chart plotter; negotiating another narrow harbor entrance under sail, and moving the boat into the travel lift slip with sail and oar.