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Liveaboards to Cruisers: Final Preparations | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 19
Just one week is left before we depart our home port of Racine, Wisconsin — for good!?! — and take off south down the river. The list of projects, errands, and to-dos is still a mile long. We need to buy anchor chain, install an anchor swivel, hook up...
A Dismasting, Curried Chips and a Cute Dog Adventures of an Old Seadog, ep110
Adventures in England. I take a ride on the Plymouth Lifeboat and show you a 'real' rescue when a boat gets dismasted at sea, visit an old fort in Cornwall and in Devon visit a real Fish and chip shop for curried chips and eat an English breakfast with No...
Drilling Holes & Laying Fiberglass: Installing a Windlass | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 18
Settle in… we’ve got our first 20+ min episode for you! The river trip is right around the corner, and our preparations start getting serious. The list of boat projects we want to complete (as discussed in Ep 15) before leaving Lake Michigan is LONG. I...
Dinghy Outboards are Tricky Little Beasts | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 16
Back in our homeport of Racine, we start tackling the long list of projects we want to finish before leaving for our journey down “The Ditch.” Kirk researches the heck out of LED bulbs. He determines the warm Kakanuo bulb https://amzn.to/2JX40fS to be...
Results of our Shakedown Sail | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 15
That’s a wrap on our shakedown sail! In this episode, after sailing back across Lake Michigan to our home port of Racine, Wisconsin, and getting a little weird during the crossing (being alone on a boat definitely makes you go a little batty), we talk th...
Freshwater Surfing on Lake Michigan | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 14
Freshwater surfing! Kirk’s beyond stoked to get a chance to surf Lake Michigan. After leaving Charlevoix, we snuck into Leland just before a cold front moved in. The front brought strong winds that ended up sticking around for three days, which prevent...
Summer in Michigan is Downright Lovely | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 13
Summer in Michigan is magic, because it’s so fleeting. It usually arrives sometime in June, and by the time you’ve attended a family get together and a wedding or two, it’s already August, and you’re wondering where the heck the time went… If yo...
Sailing to Charlevoix: A Childhood Dream ACHIEVED! | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 12
Every summer as Kirk was growing up, his family would visit Charlevoix, a quaint vacation town located on a skinny isthmus between Round Lake and Lake Michigan. Round Lake was a boating mecca; all sorts of craft paraded across its waters, waiting for the...
Cruising the West Coast of Michigan | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 11
Our shakedown cruise is officially underway! After crossing Lake Michigan with Kirk’s dad, we arrive in Pentwater, MI where we meet up with the rest of Kirk’s family. It’s our first of many ports of call along Michigan’s west coast we visit over th...
Solar to the Rescue! | Review of Suaoki Solar Panel + Power Station
Products in this Review Suaoki 150Wh Portable Power Station https://amzn.to/2K0XANF Suaoki 100W Solar Panel Charger https://amzn.to/2qLAS3m -- Just when we thought we didn’t need any more solar… When designing our boat’s new battery and solar sy...
The LAKE MICHIGAN Crossing | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 10
It’s our FIRST OVERNIGHT PASSAGE! We set sail across Lake Michigan, leaving in the middle of the night to ride the fading winds of a storm. Kirk’s dad arrives just before midnight to join us for the trip. The sail starts out with 15+ knts on the nose,...
Preparing for our Shakedown Sail | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 9
Products in this video: Tea Kettle - https://sailingsoulianis.com/products-we-love/bodum-electric-tea-kettle Manual Food Processor - https://sailingsoulianis.com/products-we-love/zyliss-manual-food-processor We bought the boat, daysailed the boat, and hav...
First Sail on our Tartan 37 | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 8
Until now, family and friends have always sailed with us on our Tartan 37, but this time we sail her by ourselves, up to Milwaukee and back. Leaving the dock at our marina in Racine is tricky. The dock is on the Root River (which frequently floods and dra...
Moving Aboard our Sailboat & Freedom Party | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 7
The Tartan 37 is ours, and it’s time to celebrate! With the 4th of July arriving just days after we close on the boat, we decide it’s rather fitting to pop some bubbly and celebrate our own new-found freedom… from land! The hardest part of moving ab...
WE BUY A TARTAN 37 SAILBOAT | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 6
WE FINALLY BUY A SAILBOAT. It feels like we’ve been searching for a boat forever! In this episode we finally buy a boat, a beautiful Tartan 37. Before we find the Tartan, we look at two other options in the Milwaukee area: a Pearson 38 and a Southerly 3...
Our Sailboat Purchase Fell Apart | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 5
Our offer was accepted on a Morgan 382! The boat is in fabulous condition, but still needs a bit of work. Fortunately she doesn’t need repairs, just finishing. Kirk and I do kind of like the idea of finishing out the systems ourselves. The woodworking, o...
From California to the Midwest & Catamarans to Monohulls | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 4
There are literally thousands upon thousands of boats on the west coast, and we can’t find one to fit the bill? Up until this point, we had limited our boat search to catamarans, with a price tag of $50,000 or less. Yes, we admit, we probably could find ...
LA VIDA A VELA – Ep 9, Palermo, Sicily. Mediterranean sea. – Navegando por el Mediterraneo
ENGLISH SUBTITLE - SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL.__ A couple Sailing SV TIRANT at Mediterranean Sea, this Episode we arrive to Palermo, Sicily.__ __Navegant en parella en el veler Tirant pere la mediterrania, Arrivem a Palerm, Sicilia i posem fi a aquest viatge d...
Racing Catamaran as a Minimalist Liveaboard? | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 3
We’re off again to see another catamaran — this time to Seattle. We fly from San Diego, hop a few trains, ride a couple ferries and even inflate a paddle board to get to the boat, which is moored on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands. Kirk knows ab...
Searching for a Catamaran in Mexico | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 2
The sailboat hunt is on! We drive from San Diego, California to Guaymas, Mexico to see a catamaran named Imi Loa. We’ve had our eye on this boat for a little while, and have been in contact with the sellers — they assure us this cat is ready to go crui...
No Wind No Motor, Drifting at Sea – Ep 55, Sailing Nandji
We sail 130nm from Tanna island to Efate island with no engine and have some exciting Marlin fishing on the way. Arriving safely, we set off island style on a drive around the island... https://www.sailingnandji.com CLICK THE BELL to know when NEW Nandji ...
Island life Vanuatu, Take it slow, (Sailing Nandji) Ep 53
Settling into island life, we explore the beautiful island of Tanna, Vanuatu. Take a step back in time... https://www.sailingnandji.com In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we check ourselves into Vanuatu at a small village on the west coast of Tanna islan...
Hand steering to Vanuatu – Sailing Nandji, Ep 52
We embark on a 250 nautical mile sail from New Caledonia across the deep Hebrides trench to Vanuatu. Hand steering for 3 days & 2 nights, just the two of us... https://www.sailingnandji.com In this episode of Sailing Nandji, we check out of New Caled...
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