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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...
GOODBYE Marine Head & Holding Tank, HELLO Composting Toilet | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 17
A leaky marine head can be a very shitty situation. At one point during our shakedown cruise around Lake Michigan, (thanks to a combination of rollicking seas, a leaky hand pump, and plain ignorance) we ended up with toilet water where it SHOULDN’T be ...
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...