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Fast Sailing Overnight to Key West | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 50
The seemingly smallest thing can drastically change the experience of a journey on the sea. Like forgetting to take seasickness meds. Then what a difference a few hours makes — from night to day, from dark ominous waves to calm electric blue sea. Sail wi...
“Kinda My Worst Nightmare” | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 49
What makes your palms go clammy? Gives you a cold sweat? For both of us, swimming in murky water under a boat is one of our worst nightmares. Time to face our fears! We dive in to clean the hull, in preparation for our sail to Key West. Hope you enjoy! La...
This is Bliss: Offshore Sailing at it’s Finest (Calico Skies Sailing Ep. 31)
Sailing is about the journey, not the destination and this episode is evidence of that. It begins on the fifth day of our 1,000 mile passage from North Carolina to Nova Scotia, Canada. We continue to encounter light but favorable winds and comfortable seas...
Sailing the Miserable Mile | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 48
The Miserable Mile is a stretch of super busy waterway near Ft Myers with an incredibly narrow channel. Powerboats fly this way and that, wakes churn the water, and straying from the channel even a few feet means running hard aground. In short, it’s quit...
Offshore Sailing & The Gulf Stream: Riding the Magic Carpet North (Calico Skies Sailing Ep. 30)
In this episode we set out on our 1000 mile sailing passage to Canada. Initially we encounter steep waves and choppy seas off Beaufort NC but offshore conditions mellow out considerably. We utilize Predictwind and our Iridium Go satellite phone to optimi...
The Great Escape: Hello Sailing, Goodbye East Coast! (Calico Skies Sailing Ep. 29)
Temperatures are soaring here in Beaufort, North Carolina, but that does little to slow us down. In this Episode, we do some more provisioning, and Bill finishes the autopilot repair. Then he cleans Calico’s bottom and we’re finally ready once again to...
Storm’s Coming! Riding it Out at Anchor | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 47
Storms are scary on a boat. Your entire home rocks around like a whirly-gig, and you’re never quite sure if it’s going to stay put, or go careening off and crash into rocks, land, or another boat! Up until now, we’ve been securely tied to a dock when...
What Young Cruising Couples Do for Fun | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 45
-- Get the Energy Audit & Battery Bank Sizing Tool https://sailingsoulianis.com/shop/energy-audit-battery-bank-sizing-tool/ -- In this episode we continue south on a beautiful downwind daysail from Venice Beach to Boca Grande Pass, then spend a few da...
In Search of the Sun, Finding the Bottom | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 44
We will be donating all proceeds from this video to PERC to support the Abaco islands. * If you’d like to donate to the Bahamas rescue & disaster recovery efforts, we recommend the organizations below. We’re not affiliated with either group, but h...
7 Days of Cruising | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 43
Imagine what one week of cruising looks like, and you’ll never get two identical weeks. BUT— if we had to pick one, these 7 days are pretty typical of our cruising life. We spent some time at anchor, and one day at the dock. We enjoy some gorgeous suns...
Life Aboard a Sailboat | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 42
After months spent mostly at docks, we venture out to live on the hook (which happens to be less than a block away from a grocery store, but hey, baby steps). This one has a little bit of everything. We pick up where we left off in the previous episode, ...
Our Love/Hate Relationship with Sailing | Sailing Soulianis – Ep. 41
It’s finally starting to feel like we’re cruising! In this episode, we prep for our longest sail yet: 190 miles from St. Joseph Point to Clearwater. We give you a peak inside our ditch kit, install a MOB (man overboard) device in each of our lifejacket...