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Catamaran Build – OUR SECOND CONTAINER HAS ARRIVED!! (MJ Sailing – Ep 198)

The clock is running, and we have 2 hours to unload all the remaining components for our boat!! Plus, we get to do it on one of the hottest days of the year, which is quite a change from the windchills we experienced during the first container unload. Luckily we have a few sets of extra hands with...

Aug 08, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:24:13

Two CYCLONES?! What a CRAZY Year. [🎥67🇫🇯]

As we try to flee Cyclone Season, we get approval from Australia to enter, but then Queensland changes the State's rules that count-time-at-sea. As we apply for an exemption, we get hit by the first tropical low of the season. But then it turns into TWO tropical lows. Then two tropical CYCLONES...

Aug 03, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:27:11

CATAMARAN BUILD – I Have A Large Cockpit (MJ Sailing – Ep 197)

After adding reinforcements to Bulkhead 6 last week, this time we get it in place and find out exactly how large our cockpit is going to be. We hope you enjoy! Much love from Annapolis! Jessica, Matt & Georgie Link to our boat: Thank you SO MUCH to our Patrons. These amazing supporters ...

Aug 01, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:20:51

Do FAST & AFFORDABLE Catamarans Even Exist? [Full Tour] Learning the Lines

In this video I am touring a Moxie 37 Island Hopper and it's an astoundingly unique catamaran. From the forward cockpit to the light displacement and galley-down design, this boat puts sailing performance first, and interior volume second. It's a breath of fresh air amongst all of the cond...

Jul 29, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:15:32

Escape Plans Denied [🎥66🇫🇯]

As Cyclone season approaches, we start working on our escape plans. We knew it was a risk to leave the safety of New Zealand, and now we pay the price... We are posting live updates on our social channels: 0:00 - Intro 0:26 - Credits 0:41 - Applying for Compassionate Exemption 2:07 - Kids Surfi...

Jul 27, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:19:37

Can you race a cruising catamaran (and win!)? [🎥65🇫🇯]

We enter Archer into the Musket Cove Regatta, which was the ONLY large scale, International sailing regatta of 2020. We felt so lucky to partake and it was a celebration of sailing, Fiji and life in general! If you ever make it to Fiji, stay in Musket Cove and time your stay for the annual sailing r...

Jul 20, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:16:31

CATAMARAN BUILD – Bonding Bulkheads – Preparation is Key!! (MJ Sailing – Ep 195)

We're surrounded by big bulkheads, and now it's time to get the first one glassed in to the bridge deck. We do a little jumping around in this episode, giving features to three of our biggest bulkheads. Matt does a quick explanation of #6, which will lead into our cockpit, before we give...

Jul 19, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:26:23

Ep176 – Momentum is Critical – Catamaran Deck Build.

Just back from a great holiday, it can hit you in the face, the task at hand is Huge and it is so important to get working. The "Momentum is Critical" as I power through the Foam Core Installation and ready myself for the final run on this Catamaran Deck build, the Laminating Patreon Mem...

Jul 15, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:27:28

Being a kid again in Fiji: racing, river-sliding & scuba diving! [🎥64🇫🇯]

How could you not be as excited as a kid in Fiji? In this episode we race Archer against our friends Pu (and blow a mainsail halyard in the process!). We paddle around in Fiji's most beautiful anchorage. We zoom down the Taveuni River-Slides and Dive near the White Wall on Taveuni. Don't m...

Jul 13, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:23:46

CATAMARAN BUILD – Welcome To My Shower (MJ Sailing – Ep 194)

The BIG bulkheads are going in!! And now we have walls and doors that make up the shower in our owner's hull. This next episode I love for two reasons. One, is I finally got around to adding a BUNCH of images and renders for you to see how the boat should look as we progress. The second is...

Jul 11, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:22:35

Ep175 – Integrating Foam Core and Celebrating Milestones

The mass of foam core in a Catamaran Deck takes a lot of working out to reach the desired outcome of strength, stiffness and structure and this week the deck companionway are shaped and I apply my own method of Integrating Foam Core into the window inserts and supports. A planned quick break celebra...

Jul 08, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:28:41

SAILING Our PERFORMANCE CATAMARAN 1200 NM Florida to Rhode Island | Ep 33

SAILING Our PERFORMANCE CATAMARAN 1200 NM Florida to Rhode Island | Ep 33 After a few weeks of boat maintenance in Ft. Lauderdale we are embarking on a 1200 nautical mile passage from South Florida to Newport, Rhode Island on our Seawind 1600 catamaran. The state where I grew up, and Fabio lived fo...

Jul 07, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:30:14

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know. The Q&A Episode! [🎥63🇦🇺]

We asked if you had any questions and we got 75 responses! And since we have guests visiting us this week, we thought we would edit a quick video instead. So here are all the answers to your wonderful questions - posted today, July 7th, 2021! 0:00 - INTRO TO Q&A: 1:44 - Insight into your day to...

Jul 07, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:39:49

Fiji’s Sinking Village [🎥62🇫🇯]

Ogea didn't cause this crisis, but they're feeling it. In this episode we talk to the village leaders about their efforts to raise the earth by hand and the impact that rising sea levels will continue to have on their village. It's not our usual type of travel adventure, but maybe mor...

Jun 30, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:20:59

CATAMARAN BUILD – First Bulkheads Go In!! (MJ Sailing – Ep 193)

Get YOUR NAME Permanently written on our catamaran!! Sign up to become a Patron today! This video has some very exciting news!! Our first bulkheads are getting installed! They're not the transverse ones which will split up our living space, but instead they are bulkheads 2 & 3, which ...

Jun 28, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:24:27

“Stay Long’a in Fulaga” – Remote Fiji [🎥61🇫🇯]

This is the dream: You're sailing around the world and visit a stunningly beautiful island where you are welcomed by the village Chief. You become friends with the locals and are no longer a tourist, and you are allowed to see what life is really like in a different place. You create lasting fr...

Jun 23, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:34:27

We Have a SECRET SIDE PROJECT (MJ Sailing – Ep 192)

Not only do we have the catamaran build happening in the tent, but there's another secret project that we've been working on lately. While I turn my attention towards that for a few days, Matt is still busy inside of the tent preparing for our bulkheads to go in. Now the unidirectional i...

Jun 20, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:24:16

We are the only tourists in Fiji. [🎥60🇫🇯]

We're the ONLY ones. A collection of perhaps 20 boats and, thankfully, 6 with kids. In this episode we gather at the famous Blue Lagoon (the G-Rated version!) and break out all the toys. We surf, kite, sail, foil, hike and catch a show. It's not clear though who is having more fun? Is it t...

Jun 15, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:22:47

Castaways, Manta Rays, Birthdays & Mohawks?! [🎥59🇫🇯]

Imagine watching the movie "Castaway" for the first time anchored comfortably off the beach where it was filmed. How cool would that be?! We finally leave Musket Cove and start exploring the rest of Fiji with our buddy-boat, Pu'Uhonua. Ben gives the kids some homemade haircuts. We sc...

Jun 08, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:18:16

CATAMARAN BUILD – Measuring Bulkhead Spacing (MJ Sailing – Ep 190)

We're AMOST to the stage where we can begin putting in our bulkheads!! But we have just a few preparatory steps before we can get there. Although the bulkhead placements were provided by Max Cruise when we received the hull, we've made a few small tweaks, and now we need to go through a...

Jun 06, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:29:04

Welcome to Fiji (where is everybody?) [🎥58🇫🇯]

We finish our quarantine and enter Fiji, but are surprised at what we find. As one of just a few tourists in the island group, we find the resorts are closed, the surf breaks are empty and the locals inquisitive. It is as if we are visiting Fiji before there was an international airport or any resor...

Jun 01, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:20:51

CATAMARAN BUILD – Over 50 feet of Glassing in One Afternoon!! (MJ Sailing – Ep 189)

** Become a Patron, and get your NAME written on our Catamaran!! ** Now that we have bonded the bridge deck together, it's time to glass all 50 feet of the inside seam. There's multiple steps involved, including making sure all parts of the seam which did not have our methacrylate bondin...

May 30, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:22:35

Making a “Break” for it! 1,300nm passage to Fiji. [🎥57🇳🇿]

More things break on our trip from NZ to Fiji. Why does this keep happening to us!? And why does it happen so often at night!? We finally get approval to travel to Fiji and we leave New Zealand for warmer waters. Play a little Pirate Tag at sea, catch some tuna, marvel at the sunrise and make it t...

May 25, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:25:11

Trapped In NZ & Making the Best of It! [🎥56🇳🇿]

NZ is Covid Free, but we're trapped. We can't go anywhere else, and winter has arrived. Some of our friends throw in the towel, and we hunker down for winter and a sliver of hope that Fiji or Australia might open. But will they? This is a monster episode! We cover three months, two birthd...

May 18, 2021
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:29:20

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