Ryan and sophie sailing YouTube Videos
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Sailing to Islas Cíes: the best beach in the World. #21
The Islas CÍes was named by The Guardian “Top 1 of 10 beaches in the World”. We set sail from Muros towards the CÍes Islands to see for ourselves if this beach lives up to the title. The sail there is gorgeous: 22 knots of downwind, a smooth ride t...
Captain Nervous in the Spanish fog. #20
The Northwestern coast of Spain is prone to fog and this week, we head right into it on our way from La Coruña to Islas Cíes. After a couple of weeks spent away from the oat on a business trip, Ryan is back at the boat and we can finally continue our j...
Why does the Bay of Biscay have such bad reputation? #17
Life is short: Meet someone on Tinder, Quit your job, Sell your apartment, Buy a boat and go sail the world!!! This week, I find the answer to a question I asked myself “Why does sailing across the Bay Biscay have such bad reputation?!” Ahead of o...
🇫🇷French Escale! (in French, with subtitles) #16
Life is short: Meet someone on Tinder, Quit your job, Sell your apartment, Buy a boat and go sail the world!!! ——— This week, by popular demand, the episode is in French! (With English subtitles, of course). We make an escale in Bretagne, near ...
Two (pseudo) Swedish sailors crash the party at the Kieler Week #12
It all starts with an Instagram comment we received right before we started sailing towards Kiel, that said “oh, you’ll arrive in Kiel right in time for the Kieler Woche”. We did not know what the Kiel week was, and we were too busy preparing the sa...
How we are adjusting to life onboard our sailboat – Part 1: Space #11
WE ARE TAKING YOUR QUESTIONS!!! Ask us anything you've ever wondered about deciding to quit our jobs to go on a sailing adventure with no prior experience of boats or sailing, how it is to live as a sailing nomad, or anything related to boat life in genera...
Saying Goodbye to our lives in Stockholm. #9
Every new beginning come from new beginnings end! One week to departure, we are saying goodbye to the life we built here in Sweden. About 10 years ago, Ryan and I left our home countries to come and settle in a land that offered us professional opportuniti...
What launching our sailboat wrecked. #6 (My nerves. It was my nerves)
But not our boat, thankfully! Got a couple of close calls though.... Anyways, after two months spent working non-stop on Polar Seal, it was time to launch her! The problem was… Ryan was very close to forget mentioning that he had removed the anodes be...
Shine little sailboat, shine! #5
This week, Ryan is in Singapore for work and I tried to wax the hull of Polar Seal by myself! Polar Seal hadn’t been waxed in at least 3 years. Her gelcoat started to show some signs of fatigue, in the form of big dark stripes running down the deck. Th...
ANTIFOULING: Who would put hard paint on top of soft paint?! #3
6 weeks to departure! I knew that becoming a sailboat owner meant that at some point, I would end up with a sanding machine in my hands and a valved safety mask on my face, doing something that I was probably not going to enjoy. In this episode, Ryan an...
Episode 1: Hi, we are Ryan and Sophie, and we quit our startup jobs to go sail the World.
Two months to departure! In this episode, I tell about how we went from being full-time employees to quitting our jobs, buying a sailboat and leaving Stockholm, Sweden, to go sail the world. Ryan and I met on Tinder in March 2015, and hit it off immedia...![Boat naming ceremony! (I let our first video live, because we all start somewhere) [1]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi_webp/sHxMV6gPYZo/maxresdefault.webp)