Got rusty lifelines? No worries, you can redo them… It's the circle of lifelines!
Replacing our lifelines on board was one of our highest priority items that we HAD to do before leaving Portland, taking on the big blue Pacific and sailing south. It tur...
Our worst nightmare! We discuss with our new crew the steps to take should we be forced to abandon Delos. We talk about our ditch list, mayday calls, our liferaft, and the things we'd grab with us before abandoning ship.
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Elay was fit enough to leave port, so we headed off for our overnight sail to the famed San Blas Islands. Sailing the San Blas islands has been a dream of ours for some time now and it was exactly what we hoped it would be like. These tiny islands scattere...
It's November when Paul and Sheryl sail to the Italian island of Sicily and olive season is just beginning. They are invited by a local family to join in the harvest and spend a day in the groves picking olives, then deliver them to the regional co-op wher...
We sail into the Indian port of Port Blair and prepare to check in. The process is the craziest we've ever seen with heaps of Indian Officials visiting Delos from Customs, Immigration, and the Indian Navy. Customs decided to lock up our Iridium Phone but...
It is hard to find a good parrot and I continue my quest to learn all I can about them. I went to a fantastic shop just north of Miami and found so many amazing birds! This is a very short episode about my quest to bring a new crew member aboard. Enjoy!...
Hi everyone, Impi is a catamaran sailing around the world with a couple, Brent and Ana, having left South Africa some 5 years ago. In this video we have visited some islands around New Caledonia and here in Part 1 of a 2 part series we show our visits to a...
Tunisia on the North African coast is renowned for its warm climate, beautiful beaches and affordable resorts, but when Paul and Sheryl sail in to the port of Monastir they discover that an exciting world lies beyond the marinas and hotels along the coast....
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Hey Delos Tribe! Yep, you heard right :) We're looking for some cool new crew for our 2016 season. In Delos fashion we want to run a little vi...
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We tied off La Vaga securely in the marina in Cartagena and hugged the jetty after our not so pleasant sail from Santa Mart...
We had the chance to sail on a mahogany old school beauty! She is sleek, fast and so fun to sail. SY Chancegger was built for the 1970 Americas Cup for Baron Bich, the man behind Bic pens and lighters! She is 28 tons with an overall length of 19 meters. ...
The crew prepare for their first ocean crossing on Cheeky Monkey - approximately 20 days of open sea sailing across the Atlantic.
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Guernsey is one of the Channel Islands and is situated 43 Nm from Cherbourg, France. We leave Cherbourg after 24 hours and arrive in St. Peter Port on Guernsey in the afternoon. The first marina is too shallow and RAN is standing aground every six hours. A...
Once we'd recovered from celebrating Kristi's birthday, we set out on an adventure across the barren hills of Gran Canaria, Spain.
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Sailing over from Morocco, we'd arrived in Gran Canaria a few days before. Leaving...
Paul and Sheryl sail to Pantelleria, a tiny volcanic island in the Sicilian Channel close to the North African coast. They arrive in time for the annual grape harvest and learn to make wine in the traditional way, dive on a Byzantine shipwreck with a group...
WoooHoo!! Sweet, sweet sailing!!! Our first passage of the Indian Ocean crossing takes us from Thailand to the Andaman Islands, India. The newbie crew learns the ropes on their first overnight passage and get a little crazy in the galley concocting all ...
Paul and Sheryl sail along this wild eastern coast of Sardinia beginning their voyage in the resort town of Porto Cervo, the playground of the rich. Further south they find remote bays and coves and, leaving their boat, travel inland where they meet proud ...
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In Santa Marta - Colombia, we are joined by two good friends Ana and Connor who were travelling Colombia at the same time. Yippeeeee, friends...
In this episode, we officially become sailboat owners! After all the paperwork is finalized, Varuna is ours and we take her out sailing right away. We also explore the Seattle Boat Show and find a used windvane. Last, but certainly no least, we take you...
Before setting sail to cross the Indian Ocean we perform a LIVE man overboard drill with The Braidster as our subject. He accidently falls off with a survival kit while checking the fishing lines. It's up to the crew to react quickly, get the sails down,...
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Keeping an eye on the weather, Paul and Sheryl navigate this treacherous channel visiting the French island of Lavezzi, site of the worst maritime disaster in the Mediterranean, and explore the idyllic La Maddelena Archipelago in Sardinia. Next they sail t...
Sailing Adventure: The crew of Cheeky Monkey - now three Americans, two French and a Brit - head out across the Atlantic for one hell of a ride. Leaving Morocco and heading to the Caribbean, with just one stop in the Canary Islands, the crew encounter beau...
WHAT?!?! Ping Pong Shows and Monkey Bites?? Are you ready for some Thailand Craziness? We meet up with our friend Jeff who takes us land cruising around Phuket. We check out some awesome views of Delos and some beautiful Buddha statues. We experience th...
Join us as we explore The Hague a bit more and prepare for the passage to Calais, France. Outside Rotterdam the Dutch Coast Guard contact us and want to ask some questions.The day offers perfect sailing, starting with 20 knots of wind on the beam and then ...
Catamaran Impi is sailing around the world and now in New Zealand. Here we visit the Great Barrier Island and record some of the places we found interesting. Having hauled Impi and flown to South Africa for our sons wedding, we had not thought to be postin...
[email protected] - for any sails from Ray Brown in Adelaide, SA (I went to school with his daughter) We leave divers paradise - Bonaire for our estimated 3 day sail to Santa Marta - Colombia. This passage is known for its wild winds off the coast of...
With two new crew, we set out on a road trip in search of the fabled city of Marrakesh and it turns into a huge adventure.
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Sailing Channel - Road Trip to Morocco - Chase the Story
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The storms keep coming and we're stuck on Vlieland. Two days later there is finally a gap in the weather and we leave to sail to The Hague in the south part of The Netherlands. We meet heavy rain, winds of 25 knots gusting to 30 and high and steep waves ou...
We sail from Los Roques to Bonaire, stopping at a tiny bunch of islands called Aves. I’ve never seen so many birds in my whole life! We get salty for a few days and checkout some of Bonaires many dive sites that it has to offer. We throw on some scuba ge...
Paul and Sheryl sail into the historic harbour of Mahon, on the island of Menorca, said by the British Admiral Nelson to be the safest harbour in the Mediterranean. They moor at a unique floating platform called Isla Clementina anchored in the middle of th...
After weeks of work and pools of sweat the last and final steps of rigging Delos are completed! We get the forestay up and go sailing to tune the rig. The crew gets an invite to a Mexican restaurant from our friend Jeff we met in the local cruiser bar. ...
My full review of Tobago Cays in St Vincent & the Grenadines (Caribbean) is on my website here: https://sailingbritican.com/tobago-cays/
This video showcases our anchorage, trips around the islands and reefs...and even a short video of the late Steve ...
Sailing across the Mediterranean: wakeboarding. The Cheeky Monkey crew leave Palma, Mallorca, and set off east across the Mediterranean in search of the perfect beach for wakeboarding.
New crew members Kristi and Meg, along with friends John and Chris, s...
After three days in Cuxhaven we sail to the island Vlieland in The Netherlands. The trip is 150 nautical miles and takes 25 hours. We have a good sail with nice winds and make around 6,5 knots of speed. The weather is cold but sunny. Unfortunately we sail ...
In this episode, Paul and Sheryl examine "how" and "why" the travelling life lures people away from a regular life ashore. They look back on the highlights of their 11 years on the high seas since they built their sailboat, visiting islands in the Bahamas ...
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