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This was a weird one to make… thanks for watching. And thanks for taking the time to remember our dear friend Doug Drinkwater. He was one of our first patrons, became a loving friend and his passing hit hailly and I like a ton of bricks.
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New to sailing? 🌊 Learn how to shake out a reef from your mainsail in this quick and clear step-by-step tutorial! This essential sailing skill lets you safely get more sail area as the wind calms down.
⚓ Perfect for beginner sailors, day cruisers, or ...
Learn how to reef a sail with this complete step-by-step tutorial! Perfect for beginner sailors who want to master essential sailing techniques.
In this sailing tutorial, you'll learn:
✅ How to properly reef your mainsail
✅ Using the topping lift and...
In our latest How To sailing video, El looks at how to reef sails single-handed, a useful skill when you're alone on night watch.
One key element of reefing is: as soon as we think we should reef-in, we do. As soon as we think it's time to reef-out, we ma...
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We are preparing for our transatlantic crossing in our monohull sailboat. One of our boat projects is to take our he...
What a crazy journey this 346Nm non-stop sail without engine was. The most stressful part being entering the Ponce inlet at night in big swell without an engine. We really wanted to make it as far North as possible up the Florida coast to fix our Yanmar en...
Time to leave the Bahamas for an intense 3 days sail without engine up the Gulf Stream back to the US. Trying to time a weather window was a challenge in itself but eventually one, although not the best, presented itself. Hurricane season was approaching a...
Stuck in Newlyn Harbour doing boat repairs in preparation for our passage around Lands End. The head is broken and the main sail reefing lines aren't working right. At least it's beautiful here!
We are Andy, Melissa and Jack, a sailing family based in N...
Heavy Weather Sailing. You can’t avoid heavy weather - squalls and even storms pop up unexpectedly. We once had a Tropical Storm pop up and we had absolutely no warning. So…if you’re going to become a Bluewater cruiser it’s important to know what o...
Ep193. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we break away from the story of our South Atlantic Sailing Voyage and do a dedicated episode where we have the owner of Xquiste Yachts, Tamas Hamor, take on a top to bottom guided tour of every component and fea...
Ep192. In this episode of Cruising Off Duty, we continue our Transatlantic sailing voyage on the 50' (Xquisite X5) Catamaran. We are on Day 4-5 of the voyage. The weather has gone from calm and sunny to windy, cold and foggy. We have to reef our sails f...
After cancelling the South-Pacific crossing, I decided to sail North before the hurricane season. I really enjoyed singlehanding the Sea of Cortez way more than I was expecting. On this episode, you'll get to see what sailing Mexico is all about and get to...
Get ready for it to blow! These weren't super heavy winds but they were on the nose and had Plaintiff's Rest really heeled over during the second night and day of our voyage to Cuba. Our Niagara 35 proved she was up for the task though, practically saili...
Happy New Year! This week we squeeze four people overnight into a 27 foot boat as we sail out to the mouth of the manatee river during a cold front. We catch and cook our dinner that night and sail back upwind to Tampa in 20 knots.
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