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BIG WAVES Sailing TAHITI | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep. 94
Tahiti! The fabled island of the South Pacific! It's no longer a sleepy island paradise but a bustling cosmopolitan outpost with an edgy reputation by sailors, but we still find its charms! And it's not just the town that's edgy, as we find out when we hea...
How To Anchor in Coral Atolls (to avoid snagging) | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World
One of the trickiest aspects of sailing in coral atolls and around coral reefs is avoiding snagging the anchor chain around coral outcrops to not get stuck as well as to not damage any coral. We look at a tried and tested method for anchoring around cora...
The WALL of SHARKS Freediving | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.93
The wall of sharks, a wildlife phenomenon in the southern pass of Fakarava atoll, where sharks gather in large numbers and prey on the groper fish that spawn there. And there's nothing going to hold us back from diving with the sharks! __________ Join ou...
The SHARK WHISPERER of Fakarava | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.92
At the western end of the Tuamotus archipelago, the longest chain of islands on Earth stretching all the way from Muroroa to Mataiva just off Bora Bora, lies the atoll of Fakarava. Here we find the remarkable Shark Whisperer. And what happens when you pu...
YACHT RACING the Biggest ROGUE of the South Pacific | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.91
Two yachts is a race, three yachts is a regatta! And when it's two Kiwi yachts, an American cat and an Aussie yacht, it's the America's Cup, or as now El likes to call it 'The Kiwi Cup'. At least that's what you get when we all make the run from the atolls...
DREAMS COME TRUE: Our Very Own PACIFIC CORAL ATOLL! |Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep. 90
We've always dreamt of this: sailing to our very own South Pacific coral atoll, 1,000 miles from anywhere, and all alone and all to ourselves. And we find it in Kauehi - at least for a couple of days. And then it only gets better when our fellow sailor fri...
WHIRLPOOLS & ATOLL PASSES (It’s All in the Timing) | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep.89
We're sailing for the Tuamotus, the world's longest archipelago with islands dotted across the South Pacific like pearls across an ocean. Our destination is the atoll of Kauehi, but first we need to get through the notorious atoll pass and its rushing tumu...
Tattoos, Burning Witches & Shark Frenzies | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.88
There's only so much paradise anyone can take, so we leave Anahoe Bay and head for the other side of Nuku Hiva... one of tattoos and shark frenzies. And being the longest night of the year, our Danish friends invite us to celebrate with Ancient Danish Poti...
Polynesian ISLAND PARADISE Found! | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.87
We've found our very own piece of paradise, far away from the worries of the world, a secret place where only sailors can get to (and perhaps the most intrepid of travellers willing to travel by plane, cargo ship, jeep and horse...). Apart from ancient ru...
Marlon Brando & The Chocolate Man | Tranquilo Sailing Around the World | Ep.86
Marlon Brando & The Chocolate Man | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep.86 Ua Pou, the most photogenic of the Marquesas Islands (which is saying a lot!), a land of lofty cloud-bound crags, beautiful waterfalls, and Manfred, the Chocolate Man, an e...
Trials & Tribulations CHECKING IN to FRENCH POLYNESIA | Sailing Tranquilo
It's about time we checked in to French Polynesia, there's only some much time that we can rely on the locals to give us a pass! We jump onto our new friends' yacht Calle II, a wonderful old Hallberg-Rassy, and head for Hiva Oa. While we weave our way thr...
GOING NATIVE in POLYNESIA | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep.85
The Tiki Fleet* is coming together on the island of Tahuata, where the locals welcome us enthusiastically into their tribe: feasting on wild goats and cooked bananas, fishing with bamboo rods, foraging and bartering for fruit, nightly bonfires and sundowne...
Magnificent MARQUESAS | Sailing Tranquilo Around the World | Ep.84
Land Ho! After sailing 3,900 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean from the Galapagos, we land in the enchanting and magnificent Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia! Our first port of call is Fatu Hiva and its Bay of Virgins with its suggestive landsca...
SAILING 2,900nm ACROSS the PACIFIC: To the ENDS of the EARTH | Sailing Tranquilo | Ep.83
We're sailing for the horizons, for our longest ocean crossing yet - across the Pacific Ocean - leaving behind the Galapagos and sailing for the mythical shores of the Marquesas! It's time to get one with the dolphins, hone our fishing skills (almost losi...