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This is part 2 of our Gulf of Mexico crossing from Kemah, TX to Florida, and in this episode (78) we get caught in Tropical Storm Claudette. We're not in a big sailboat, just a Catalina 387, but she held up well in 30-45 knots of wind and 10-15 foot (20 foot once or twice) swell!
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When the calorifier water heater started showering the cabin with hot water it was time to take a look...
00:00 Making our way to anchor in a new place
01:27 Calorifier (water heater) blows!
02:24 To braze or buy new?
03:03 How we chose our SureCal calorifier water heater
03:30 What is a calorifier...
Chapter 2 Starts Here with our passage to Florida from Galveston. Sailing across the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston, TX to Clearwater, FL is quite a challenge...especially during hurricane season, but we enjoyed every minute of it! This is part 1 of 2, days 1-3 of the Gulf of Mexico Crossing.
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In chapter 1, we toyed with the idea of living on the water, we shopped for a sailboat, purchased Cadence (a Catalina 387), and downsized all of our belongings, sold the house, and moved aboard. It was a chapter about learning to sail, learning to live minimal, and exploring the Texas Gulf Coast.
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On this episode we continue our sail north in the Sea of Cortez and have another amazing experience with a few large whales along the way.
We feel so incredibly lucky to already had an experience with a blue whale, and now 3 other species of whales as we make our way north back to San Carlos, Mexi...
We spend a couple of days in Victoria, BC, enjoying city life and visiting with friends before taking a weather window up to the entrance of the Juan de Fuca Straight on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. After a winter of no sailing, we get a sunny blue bird day, nice breeze and start to feel com...
The drama of Soph breaking her ankle is not over yet.
We find out upon another hospital visit that Soph is going to need surgery to put her ankle back together again. For Soph, having never even been to hospital before let alone had a surgery this is big and slightly terrifying news.
Thinking of ...
In this week's episode, we'll share the projects, the provisions, satellite communications, and the medical preparations we've made for our coming passage across the Gulf of Mexico. We're travelling from Kemah, TX to Clearwater, FL, and this is our biggest, and only blue-water pa...
We've planned on this solar power installation for our sailboat for many months, and now we're happy to share phase 1 of the solar system install with you! We used two 50w Sunpower Solar Panels, a Victron MPPT charge controller, and a Consew sewing machine to make it all happen!
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Getting insurance for our sailboat, Cadence - it's been quite the headache, and we never really knew who to trust. Our first year owning Cadence cost us way more than it should have to have insurance. But after a little shopping around, we saved over 40% for our 2nd year, and now we'd like...
A few weeks back we purchased 400 amp hours of lithium batteries from Rebel Batteries for our sailboat, and now we're sharing the lithium battery installation along with how we use them with an AGM cranking battery and a Orion DC-to-DC charger. We share the wiring schematics and the entire inst...
Explore this remote island of the Caribbean with us, and find out what makes Flamenco Beach one of the top beaches in the world!
But what can you do when there's trouble in paradise?!
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Soph hasn't had a shower in a week so and is going slightly loopy from UNI assignments, so she treats herself to a saucepan shower.
We get up at sparrow fart to leave Mooloolaba but find a blown fuse that runs all of our 2 instruments. Our day plans drastically change as we now have to hunt do...
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We are a couple who, like many of you out there, built successful, fulfilling lives, families, and careers. We worked hard and played harder, but we found ourselves at a point asking, “What’s next?”. To be clear, we were not ...
We have a treat for you with our newest episode - and the great news that our Methacrylate has arrived! Now this means we can permanently bond our hull pieces together!
Before we get ourselves to the point of no return though, we need to figure out a way to suspend the panels to clean them up as ...
What's life like on a sailboat in a marina? It's been one year as of this week since we bought Cadence, a Catalina 387, and we've been living the sailboat life as a family in a marina. In this week's episode, we share 7 discoveries about living on a sailboat in a marina. We cover...
In Part 1 of this episode, Matt and I focus once more on bulkheads number 4 and 5. Now that we've cut out the areas where the doors will be, we need to go back and add a little strength. This comes in the form of adding three sheets of fiberglass to the tops of the bulkheads - two of the 0-90...
Another bonus episode on diesel engines, but this quick discussion is about cruising full-time on a sailboat - what spare parts should I bring for my diesel engine? Drop us a comment below - what engine spare parts would you bring?
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In this bonus episode, we share a quick discussion on when to do diesel engine maintenance on a sailboat. Blake, our friend and amazing diesel engine mechanic, shares answers on:
How often to change the impellers on a sailboat engine?
How often to change the fuel filters?
When should I change the oi...
We're not on the boat anymore.
A journey into the Australian Hinterland. We introduce you to our home, family, friends and life before sailing took over.
Waking up in the hills we trek down 8km of dirt road to good old Mullumbimby to meet Slims Mum. We feel we need our fix for boats and go fo...
Yes it's a sailboat, but the Yanmar 40hp diesel engine is an important piece of our auxiliary power, and this marine diesel engine lesson was critical to us as cruisers! Blake Aslin is a diesel engine professional who helped us out in a 4 hour class, and now we're sharing a small piece of ...
This time we're sailing to some of the outermost tiny islands in the Norwegian archipelago!
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